So I like to take cuttings from my mint plants and grow more mint. Some of this is so I can finally ditch the mint thunderdome and put something else in that pot- but a lot of it is so I can give home grown mint plants as gifts to friends.
Like this lovely strawberry mint. It’s easy to grow mint from cuttings- but it’s never a one hundred percent success. In fact-
Those are my successful cuttings so far- minus the few I’ve given as gifts already.
Here’s a stack of all the failures! Cuttings are always a gamble- but mint in particular has a higher chance of success than most other plants.
It’s a fairly simple procedure. You just snip off some mint, right under some leaves, usually a piece a few inches long. Then you strip all but the top-most leaves off, and stick it in some dirt. I put a pinch of sure-start on the stem. Then you just keep it wet and wait!
Here’s my new hopefuls- 2 more pineapple mint, and 4 lovely ginger mints from the new plant I put in.
Hopefully I’ll have more mint to give soon!
The Neanderthal Gardens 
Back in the early 1970s, pups from spider plants, or bits of jade plants, were popular house warming gifts. I think that was a cool tradition.