Whats the best time to grow spearmint or chocolate mint?

and which do you perfer chocolate mint or spearmint

Whats the best time to grow spearmint or chocolate mint?
Early spring is the best time. Make sure you know its not going to frost again. I like spearmint the best. Make sure if you grow both to keep them far apart, You dont want them mixing. Try growing Peppermint too.
Reply:Spring would be the ideal time but I have planted it in the summer too as long as you keep in watered until it starts putting on new growth. I have spearmint and "lemon". I love the lemon and I"ve wanted the chocolate but I haven't bought any yet.
Reply:You can grow mints anytime. They are perennials and will come back year after year. They are among the most prolific herbs ever; as a matter of fact, the problem most people have with growing mints is that they spread like crazy. That's why lots of people grow them in containers, so they don't take over the garden. Give them a moist and reasonably fertile soil, sun to partial sun, and you will have all the mint you can handle.


My personal preference would be for the chocolate mint. Spearmint is a little more coarse and less attractive to my eye, but that's my opinion.