Menta Spicata

Perennial plant with rhizomes, upright stem about 60 cm high, seated, lanceolate leaves. It produces aromatic essences that are used in the perfumery and liquor industry. In home medicine it is used as a tonic, soothing and digestive. Sow in spring. The first harvests can be from the month and a half of planting using the tips of the branches at the same time that they are blunt to favor their sprouting. The full harvest is from three months after planting. Cultivation in a damp block and transplant in soil with decomposed organic fertilizer. It requires intense irrigation.