My mint has done really well this year, in the garden, whats the best way tp...

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...preserve it? I LOVE MINT SO I WANT TO KEEP IT AS FRESH TASTING AS POSSIBLE all the year round, ANY IDEAS.
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Apart from making mint sauce or jelly, I also freeze whole leaves, it's easy to crumble while frozen. Frozen will not be the same as using fresh for decoration but fine for flavouring.
 
Hi Mint is an aggressive grower by creeping through the soil,enclose your mint with slates down about 10ins into ground or similar restrictions,your mint is usually trouble free,die back in winter and reappears in march,during spring clean the surface of the bed and top dress with farmyard manure or compost,make a fresh bed every-third year as plants will exhaust the soil, to have winter mint lift some two/three year old roots in oct place in pots or boxes of good soil for gentle forcing in greenhouse or where you van at temperature of 13oc/55of. This will provide you with the fresh mint you require,All the best John
 
Make mint jelly or take a few leaves and put in a small jar of sugar it will give the sugar the smell of mint with a slight taste. Take leaves and put them on a cookie pan put in freezer for a few hours then take out and lay them on paper towel they will be dry and crispy by morning
 
you grow it fresh........ so you can use it fresh.
want it all year round?..grow it all year round.

it takes very little effort
 
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