The Mint Patch - Spring Time

When I first started this blog, one of the first pictures I posted was of a patch of mint brown and dry sticking out of the snow. Mint is a perennial (it comes back every year) and it also spreads. Here it is in the spring:

The Winter Pause

On Friday we got about 6 - 8 inches of snow and today we got another 2 - 3 inches. The last several weekends have also been cold, many of them rainy, and very typical of what November and December are supposed to be like here. There is not much going on with the garden this time of the year other than buying seeds and planning.

Mint buried under the snow: