English pennyroyal

Pennyroyal - Mentha pulegium.
With a delicate pleasant aroma and spicy taste.
A perennial herbaceous spicy-aromatic essential oil plant. The bush is spreading, 50-60 cm high. Leaves are rounded, serrated, dark green. Flowers are pinkish-lilac, gathered in dense, almost spherical inflorescences. The entire plant has a delicate, pleasant minty aroma and spicy taste. It is light-loving, prefers light, fertile, moist soils. Grows in one place for 3-5 years.
Value of the culture: in folk medicine, it is used fresh and dried as an anti-inflammatory, wound-healing, antiseptic, and soothing agent. Leaves and tips of flowering stems are used in cooking from early spring to late autumn: in meat and vegetable dishes, and in desserts.

* Seedling cultivation is the most preferable for the further growing of plants in pots or other containers. 
Sowing for seedlings is carried out in mid-April to obtain flowering plants in July. Sowing is done in a container with a translucent lid to protect the seeds and soil from drying out. The soil should be fine-grained, low in nutrients, and moist. Seeds are evenly distributed over the surface of the soil, are not covered. Watering is best done by misting.
Germination takes 10-12 days at a temperature of +20°C and with supplementary lighting (in February-March 40-60 W/m2). The container is regularly ventilated, and the lid is removed completely only after the seedlings emerge uniformly.
Further cultivation is carried out at a temperature of +18+20°C.
Pricking out is performed at the stage of two true leaves, 20-25 days after emergence, into pots with a diameter of 4-5 cm.
During the time of growing in the seedling pot, it is recommended to fertilize the plant twice with a liquid complete mineral fertilizer containing micronutrients. Plants are planted in a permanent location at the age of 45-50 days from emergence.
1.0 g = 15000 seeds.

English Pennyroyal Mint.