Mint is a garden favorite

ELLEN PEFFLEY

Mint in September has spread into an attractive ground cover while returning culinary uses after harvest. There are many mints – like apple mint, chocolate mint, lemon mint, and peppermint. It is spearmint that can happily and completely populate a garden if the gardener lets it.

Spearmint can become invasive as it makes a web of rhizomes. New shoots spring up from its underground node…