PotPal's default range for mint
- Summer: every 1–3 days
- Spring and autumn: every 3 days
- Winter: every 4–5 days
These ranges are PotPal's default starting point for this species by season; once the plant is in the app, PotPal adjusts them for light, pot, soil mix and local weather. They are PotPal's convention, not a general gardening rule, and checking the soil always comes first.
Light
Needs plenty of light.
The most common way it gets killed
Letting the soil dry out completely like a succulent; it likes consistently moist soil.
How to check
Touch the topsoil and water as soon as it is dry; keep the soil consistently moist.
The general rule of checking the soil rather than the calendar comes from UConn Home and Garden Education Center, Houseplant Watering Recommendations (homegarden.cahnr.uconn.edu), checked 2026-10-13.
Let PotPal keep track
PotPal works out a watering window for each plant you add and sends a local reminder, and you can tap Not dry yet when the soil is still damp. Adopting mint straight from the in-app plant atlas is coming with PotPal 1.4.0, with the range above as its starting point.