Hi Alyce, Best to grow mints from cuttings, roots, or transplants. Mint seed does not come true to type. What you are seeing is the same 鈥渕other鈥 mint plant. Its roots, properly called rhizomes, run underground and can send up shoots many feet away from the mother plant. If you dug it up, what you’d see is a thick mat of thick, tangled roots. This is why Mint can be invasive. It’s worth growing mint for SO many reasons: Mint tea, dried mint in the path, mint pesto, need we go on? But you need to contain it if you don’t want it to spread. Plant it in a container, or in a bottomless container sunk into the ground. You need to corral those roots, basically. Don鈥檛 be afraid clip it back when it starts to look rangy. It will pop right back up!
Hi Alyce, Best to grow mints from cuttings, roots, or transplants. Mint seed does not come true to type. What you are seeing is the same 鈥渕other鈥 mint plant. Its roots, properly called rhizomes, run underground and can send up shoots many feet away from the mother plant. If you dug it up, what you’d see is a thick mat of thick, tangled roots. This is why Mint can be invasive. It’s worth growing mint for SO many reasons: Mint tea, dried mint in the path, mint pesto, need we go on? But you need to contain it if you don’t want it to spread. Plant it in a container, or in a bottomless container sunk into the ground. You need to corral those roots, basically. Don鈥檛 be afraid clip it back when it starts to look rangy. It will pop right back up!