Growing your own food might seem impossible in an apartment or small house, but these edible plants are perfect to cultivate in a cramped environment.

Once roots form, place the mint plant in a pot with soil and watch it thrive. If you want to add mint to your garden, keep it contained in a pot or planter — mint is invasive and grows like a weed.

Q. I can never get my mint to thrive. I plant it in pots, water and give it morning sun. This year I put some potted mint under the trees, but it looks just as scraggly.

The RHS suggests, "Mint is best planted in spring, although potted mint can be planted right through to autumn, except in hot dry spells. It is happy in full sun or partial shade.

How to Grow It in Pots and Containers The best way to grow mint is to limit the spread of the plant's roots by planting it first in a pot, then sinking the pot into the soil within a larger container.

Mint consists of a very broad family of 3,500 plants, and all of them have square stems and opposite leaves. 1 Aside from that, each type of mint is incredibly different; you may not have known as ...

We grow mint in a moist ditch that drains one of our fields, but it can also be grown in a pot submerged in the soil, to restrain it. For my indoor mint, I’ll find a cool window where it won’t ...

"One promising approach is the incorporation of companion plants like potted mint, candy mint, and pepper mint, that consistently emit beneficial VOCs.

Each Afghan family will be given a potted mint plant, so they can grow the herb indoors for "a regular supply of fresh mint," according to the URI Master Gardener program.