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Build a pot filled with mint, or any herb you like. Mint has lovely flowers that attract bees and also the beautiful tiny mint moth. This design will fit on a small balcony or patio, and includes a tiny "pond", and stones, to allow creatures to find water as well as food and some shelter.Â
Step 1
Find a pot to suit your space, for this design it needs to be around 25cm tall and 25cm in diameter as a minimum.
Choose your mint flavour…top tip, don’t mix flavoured mints in the same pot as they will end up all the same.
Or…as in this case, be given the perfect pot already planted up with ginger mint.
Step 2
Gather the bits and pieces to make the tiny pond and shelters. For this one, I used a yoghurt pot, some sticks and stones and a couple of pieces of broken terracotta plant pot.Â
Step 3
Sink the tub into the soil, being careful not to disturb the plants.
Add some pebbles if needed to ensure the stone reaches the rim as this will form the basis of the escape route for creatures who get themselves right in the water.
Step 4
Add bits of old pot, some wood, more stones…whatever you fancy really, remembering that the more organic materials used the more rotting down and improvement of the soil will happen.
And don’t forget that it’s for you to enjoy as well as to support pollinators, so if you want a wee fairy bridge in there too…go for it!
Step 5
Fill your miniature pond with water, watering the plants in at the same time and sit back and enjoy.
Let the mint go to flower, as they will attract in the bees and other insects…but its fine to take a few leaves from time to time to make ginger mint tea.
In hot summers freeze the tea in ice lolly makers.
Use a couple of ginger mint leaves in katzu curry.
Design coming soon...
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