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How to prune mint. Pruning the mason jar herb garden!

Hi guys! Today we are going prune our mint and chives in the mason jar herb garden!

let’s start with our mint! Trimming mint is like trimming basil. You cut the stem at a leaf node so that your plant will get more bushy and put out more new growth.
Check out my post about pruning basil here: https://tigershakti.wordpress.com/2020/07/27/how-to-prune-basil/

Here is what a leaf node looks like on a mint plant:

Sometimes when your mint stem gets pretty thick, you will start to see little branches coming out of the leaf node before you even cut the stem!

Because mint grows so aggressively, you can cut your plant pretty low on the stem. Here is how I pruned my mint:

Remember, cut the stem right above a set of leaves!(a leaf node)

Here is a mint stem that I cut in another tutorial. See how the one stem branches off into two at the leaf node? That is what we are going for. Nice and bushy growth!

That is how you prune mint!
Here is the plant before and after:

Like we did here, you can still cut mint back pretty aggressively and your plant will grow back stronger then ever.

For the chives all I am going to do is to give them a little haircut so they keep growing.

Before we rap up this post I want to say that when you first start your mason jar herb garden, it will take a little while for it to start producing a usable amount of herbs. So that is all the more reason to start your own mason jar herb garden right now! Make sure you check out my other mason jar herb garden posts!

That is it for today’s post! I hope you enjoyed it! See u guys on my next post! Bye!

Mason jar herb garden maintenance!

Hi guys! Today we are going to to some work on our mason jar herb garden. The herbs need some trimming and some of the soil levels are going down. Let’s get started!

First we need to help our cilantro. I’m gonna give it a hair cut and add some more soil.

  • Before
  • After
  • What I cut

Next we need to trim the lavender. All I’m gonna do is take of the seed leaves and add some more soil.

  • Before
  • After
  • What I cut

Now we need to trim the mint. When you cut mint, you can be a little bit more aggressive because it is a more vigorous herb.

  • Before I cut
  • After
  • All that I cut

Lastly, we need to trim the chives. Trimming chives can be a little tricky because of the way their leaves are shaped. I like to just cut the tips off of my chive seedlings.

  • Before I cut the tips
  • After I cut the tips
  • What I cut from the chives

That’s it for today’s post! I hope you enjoyed it and learned something from this post! Click Here to see how I made this garden! Stay tuned for my next post. Bye!

  • Before!
  • After!
  • What I cut!