Like mint, it is one of the most common plants. You can grow some at home. Whether it's making drinks or cooking, making cakes, add some mint as embellishment to add color. Mint is not only beautiful, but also has many functions.
What's the use of mint at home?
1, refreshing
If you plant a layer of mint at home, grab a few leaves, rub them and stick them on your forehead, you will feel refreshed instantly. In summer, many people also make some mint tea by themselves. After drinking it, they feel comfortable and feel much better at once.
Because mint can stimulate the central nervous system, it can dilate capillaries and accelerate heat dissipation. Play the role of clearing away heat and toxic materials. If you often use your brain or drink a cup of mint tea when you are tired, you will be full of energy.
2, relieve pain and itching
If bitten by mosquitoes, rub the mint leaves and put them on the bite to stop itching quickly. You can also stick a few mint leaves on your body, and mosquitoes are afraid to get close.
3, sterilization and anti-inflammatory
Different kinds of mint ointment and mint cosmetics are often sold in the market. When scalded or inflamed, applying some mint ointment can play an antibacterial and anti-inflammatory role. Pay off the coolness.
4, expectorant cough
Many people like to drink mint tea. Because it also contains many intestinal substances. Regular drinking can not only clear your throat, but also relieve your cough. It also has certain curative effect on constipation.
Maintenance points of mint at home
1, good lighting
I like mint with sufficient light, which makes its leaves thick and strong, and the plants compact and beautiful. If the light is long and thin, the leaves are small and yellow, which is almost invisible.
That's also an important reason why many friends think mint can't be kept. You must get more sunshine at home.
2, water enough
There are many mint leaves, the leaves are particularly lush, the growth rate is fast, and new buds are still popping up at the bottom, so it requires higher moisture content. If planted in the ground, its roots can stretch infinitely and deeply, absorbing enough nutrients.
If the potted plants are not watered enough, the leaves at the bottom will gradually turn yellow, and the leaves with poor soil will become delicate and unsightly.
Watering at home should be done as soon as the pot soil is dry for 2 or 3 centimeters, and don't water it for too long, which will cause root rot.
3. Good ventilation
The leaves are particularly dense, and new buds are constantly growing at the bottom. Poor outdoor ventilation must be a problem. If the indoor growth is too dense and the ventilation is not good, there will be a layer of yellow leaves at the bottom that will affect the appreciation, so you should always give it points. And if it grows too high, it will pinch the heart and make it flourish.
If there is a mint at home, if you want to grow into a big pot, you can pull it horizontally and press it directly in the pot, so that lateral buds will grow between each leaf, and each leaf will develop vigorously, so that a big root at the bottom of the mint will become a big pot of mint.