Where to buy mint plants in bulk?

[Cartman12]

I want to buy some mint plants - LOTS of 'em. Anyone know of anywhere (online or proper shop) where you can buy stuff in bulk for less dosh? Thanks in advance

Buy a bag of cut mint from the supermarket for 89p. Stand it up in a glass of water. In a few weeks pot up all the stems. Hey Presto, lots of plants.

Alternatively, accidentally drop a tiny bit of mint root on some earth outside somewhere and tread on it. Stand back. Hey Presto, a garden full of mint.

Alternatively, we have a nursery who sells pots of herbs for about £1 each at farmers' markets this time of year. Maybe try there?

You are going to keep this forest of mint in pots aren't you?

www.pepperpotherbplants.co.uk are our local herb people; just bought some from them £15 for 12 plants this year at the market

I have mint in a bed. And yes, I do know that it spreads . But I don't find weeding it a chore - if it gets invasive it's easy to pull up because the roots that spread run horizontally just under the soil. In fact, it makes weeding rather a nice job

Anyway, I would find someone with a mint plant and cut some or pull up a couple of roots. Stick it in a glass of water on the windowsill for a week (cuttings) or bung it in a pot (root). I really wouldn't pay money - you can grow it yourself in a month.

as others have said it is ridiculously easy to root mint off a cutting by just placing it in a glass/jar of water for a couple of weeks.

If you really do want to buy several pots then do you have a local car boot? Ours always have lots of sellers of plants and at fairly good prices too.

It may be a little early though, my mint in the garden only has a few shoots right now (about an inch high) and i've set loads of seed which is only just starting to sprout right now. Does depend where you are in the country too, i'm East Midlands so it's still quite cool up here - further south the mint may be further along.

Also the stuff you buy potted in supermarkets is often in treated soil, so if you buy that and intend to keep it going it's best to clear as much of that compost as you can off the roots and re-pot it into new compost.

I'm wondering why you want lots of mint plants...do you drink a lot of mojitos? like me

And Pimms. Mint is an investment

I actually have about six large pots of mint on the go constantly for my cocktail requirements. Ahem.

Have you tried it in a plain vodka-tonic?
Lovely.

Ooh no I haven't. but your name keeps putting me in mind of drinking something nicely mint n chocolate based, Sue, you're not helping!

What are you going to do with all these mint plants? Anyone who has mint in their garden could give you 100s in one spade full of soil.

DIY wasp-repelling (allergic). Thanks for all the advice, really appreciate it!

i had no idea it repelled wasps. Come to think I don't remember wasps in my late summer Pimms which I take for the vitimin c in the fruit

No wasps in my mojitos either

(proof)

Plant stalls at school fetes etc usually have lots of mint, for the reasons above stated.

Do please let us know if it works at keeping wasps away.

Asdas potted herbs are all 50p this week.

chicken hariyali is a really yummy curry and it uses of lots of mint something like this allrecipes.com/recipe/chicken-hariyali-tikka/ .

it is the reason we're planting mint in our garden

Thanks so much, deste - got more from Asda. So far they're working (fair few waspies next door despite evil weather). Thanks to everyone for help