To keep in best shape, cut plants to ground in winter or early fall. You just have to make sure that any container you are using, must be around 6-8 inches deep. Plant Mentha piperita 12 to 18 inches apart. Best Pot Size to Grow Chocolate Mint The herb will do well in a 6-8 inches pot. Algiere acknowledges that the perceived chocolate notes might be imaginary, but says she is nonetheless "willing to embrace the poetry of chocolate mint" and is "open to the adventure of its suggestive deliciousness. The Chocolate Mint plant is fragrant and attractive with its purple, dark green leaves. Mint chocolate (or chocolate mint) is a popular variety of flavored chocolate, made by adding a mint flavoring, such as peppermint, spearmint, or crème de menthe, to chocolate. A real treat for discriminating noses!"Ĭhocolate mint's fans include Shannon Algiere, the herbs and flowers manager at the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, who orders the herb from Richters and says she finds it slightly different in flavor from the other peppermint she grows. I can detect the mint with a hint of chocolate, but my husband can only taste the mint. Place the tea leaves into a tea strainer, add strainer to the cup, pour in boiling water and steep for at least five minutes. It is called chocolate mint, but the aroma and flavour are not always recognisable. HOT HERBAL TEA Chocolate Mint makes the best fresh herbal tea ever Just clip enough leaves to half fill your cup. The large ovate leaves are a bronze dark green, with deep reddish-purple stems. Hard to pin down as truly 'chocolate', but its clean fragrance of peppermint is overlaid by something else that adds up to a striking 'peppermint patty' scent. Chocolate Mint is a medium growing mint reaching up to 60cm tall, but it can spread quite a bit. As we suspected, most are pretty much the same as true peppermint, but one strain surprised us. "But customers continued to insist that there is such a thing and brought us plants to prove it. "For years we resisted offering chocolate mint because we were convinced the 'chocolateness' was a figment of someone's imagination," the Richters website reads.
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