Does mint have to be taken in for the winter?

by Resi McDevitt
(Pennsylvania)

I have been looking all over and cannot find anything to suggest that mint cannot survive a Northeastern winter.

I don't want to lose my mint by leaving it out all winter but I don't really have a place to put it inside. Can it survive a Northeastern Pennsylvania winter?


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Mint is a perennial plant - it dies down each autumn and grows again in the spring.

If you leave it outside, that's what it will do.

You could just bring a small amount indoors to overwinter?

Alternatively, strip the leaves from the stems and freeze it to use out of season.

Regards

Liz