your reference to MITES...yes, perhaps I should have written about that one...my MINT PLANT started to die off but it had plenty of seed pods....so I took them... cut the plant back (remembering that in the extreme cold, the mint plant at EAGLE HOUSE died but then came back to life from the stalks in Spring)...it was suffering from the freezing cold of the window sill every night...

Anyway, somebody appeared to be videoing me doing this - from TRAVELODGE...weird...

I had noted the MITES upon that plant which were weaving invisible threads around the plant...so I washed them off the SEED PODS...and threw all of the debris away...every MITE...and then I remembered MARK R saying that he and his family were the MITES upon that plant...well, good riddance to the MITES then.

So I then replanted the seeds and put a bit more compost on top...and so we shall see if anything comes again next Spring...

The white tub is still on my window sill...because I now like the idea of a 'bit of earth' around...