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[Jay Weigel]

I'm a huge fan of the "self-watering" variety of pot that has a reservoir
in the bottom so you don't have to water quite as often, also of the large
ceramic style, hard to move but good at retaining water. My mint is all in
one enormous ceramic pot on my upstairs deck...3 varieties: spearmint,
apple mint and peppermint, plus lemon balm (melissa). As I said, when it
gets too rowdy, I just dig up a chunk of it and throw it overboard where it
can take its chances in the yard. Or not. Dang stuff roots more often than
not, whether you dig a hole for it or don't. Sometimes I do, and then it
smells real nice when S/O mows. The flowers (annuals) do okay in there. I
usually put in something already started  that's vigorous, like
pelargoniums. zinnias or pentas. I like having butterflies come to visit my
deck.

On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 1:29 PM, Lesley de Voil <lesleymdv at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think Jay said her mint was in pots. Presumably the flowering plants
> would also be in their own pots. I am envious that Jay can grow so many
> things in pots. Here it's difficult to get the right balance - too much sun
> and they run out of water, not enough sun and they get all leggy or develop
> root rot. OTOH, I have a large collection of root bound trees and shrubs
> that are good candidates for the bonsai treatment (I originally intended
> them to go out in the garden, but the soil is so poor here that they would
> have perished in the drought ,which, despite one cyclone this summer, is
> still not over.)
> Regards
> Lesley de Voil
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On 1 May 2017, at 02:58, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Fowers in among mint? What chance do they stand? Mont takes over
> everything.
> >
> > Roger
> >
> >> On 30/04/2017 14:24, Jay Weigel wrote:
> >> Very warm in this corner or northern Virginia yesterday, promising to
> be so
> >> today to too before it rains and cools down somewhat next week. If my
> >> greenhouse lady wasn't a devout Mennonite who closes on Sunday, I'd nip
> >> over for some more plants, but that will have to wait until tomorrow. I
> got
> >> herbs into their pots on the deck Friday, and they look very happy. My
> mint
> >> plants overwintered quite well in their pot, and I'll put some flowers
> in
> >> among them.
> >
>