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Mint is absolutely killing it (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 116 points 4 months ago (7 children)

And it's stupid easy to grow. Once you have mint growing in your garden/yard, you will never not have mint growing in your garden/yard/neighbors yard.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 months ago

We once planted 6 different herbs in a rectangle planter including chocolate mint and spearmint, next year the whole planter and part of the one beside only contained chocolate mint.

[–] blazeknave 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It took over a entire section of our garden as a kid. I chewed that shit all day every day every summer.

[–] nomous 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That sounds like a pretty good memory.

[–] blazeknave 12 points 4 months ago

Don't have tons. Thanks for making a point of that. Going in the gratitude journal.

[–] Aux 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

That's unless you also have dill.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Immovable object meets unstoppable force.

[–] Noodle07 4 points 4 months ago

Made a herb planter pot thing for my mom for mother's day a few years ago, dill still going strong even with the cat munching on it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Nobody going to mention bamboo? Ok, I’ll mention bamboo.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I can somehow kill dill. About the time it gets big enough to harvest some, it just bolts and dies. Even with a sun shade. I have to replant it every year.

[–] Aux 1 points 4 months ago

Maybe your soil is not compatible, idk.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Once you have mint growing in your garden/yard

you will never not have mint growing in your garden/yard/neighbors yard.

I love how the mint just spreads from your yard to your neighbor's yard.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's a gift that keeps on giving. Forcefully. My neighbors hate me.

[–] humorlessrepost 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Once you have mint growing in your garden/yard, you will never not have mint

Broadleaf herbicide keeps my neighbor’s mint infestation on his side without much issue. No worse than the violet, really. His kudzu is the only thing that causes a problem.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I managed to kill mint that was in a big planting pot. We had a very hot and dry spell and it just didn't come back the next year. I was flabbergasted.

Also in my new house, animals ate the mint all the way to the ground. Never had that happen before!

[–] JJROKCZ -1 points 4 months ago

Ivy and brush formula round up appears to have done the trick on the patch in my yard some asshole previous owner spread. I don’t want a mono-culture yard but I hate both the smell and taste of mint. If there’s one herb I could do away with forever that would be it