Mint plant disease?

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• HalleS Posts: 105

  July 2020

  My mint did that earlier in the year. I had it in a shady spot and it was quite damp. I moved it to sun/part sun and watered less, about once a week, and it has since rejuvenated.
  I'm not an expert, though! Someone else might provide some more information.

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• Obelixx Posts: 30,090

  July 2020

  Thirst and starvation?  I harvested my ginger mint a couple of weeks ago to make mint jelly and the lower leaves left behind look a lot like yours - old and tired - and I've had to take to watering every day to get fresh young new growth going.  It's had a good handful of pelleted chicken manure too so I'm hoping to see an improvement soon. 

  Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
  

  "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."

  Plato
  

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• Buttercupdays Posts: 4,546

  July 2020

  It doesn't like being confined. It's natural tendency is to wander, so it always has new soil to grow in and choose places that suit it best. Hard to match that in a pot!
  

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• fidgetbones Posts: 17,618

  July 2020

  Cut it down and give it a liquid feed. It will soon grow healthy new shoots.
  

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• amancalledgeorge Posts: 2,736

  July 2020

  Another option would be to get it out of the pot, cut it in half and replant it in fresh compost...you can of course transplant the other half and have two plants. They respond quickly to a repot. 

  To Plant a Garden is to Believe in Tomorrow

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• Obelixx Posts: 30,090

  July 2020

  Did that last year and have 5 spares needing a good home.......

  Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
  

  "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."

  Plato
  

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• amancalledgeorge Posts: 2,736

  July 2020

  Ha! Ha! @Obelixx I keep giving mine to my sister in law who keeps killing them...fifth time lucky, maybe. 

  To Plant a Garden is to Believe in Tomorrow

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