I have a patch of raspberries that's been slowly traveling around my house for the last ten years.
You should make a pi
"Hey guys my new mint plant is growing well in the ground"
"That's cool I use arch btw"
NGL, I'd rather have a lawn of mint than of grass.
I used to have that. Pretty sure our neighbor planted it to try and sabotage us because our yard was a mess. Fuck you Jerry. On the rare occasion that I'd mow, it smelled amazing
I have no idea what I'm doing
I don't understand why people act like having a lawn of mint is worse than grass. Seems like it requires less maintenance.
Grass lawns started off as a way for pretentious rich people to flaunt how much of their land they could waste on nothing important, so it’s really not worse at all. Just another dumb trend that caught on.
I planted mint in my yard for this exact reason. I hate grass lawns. However local flowers are probably better for local pollinator and bird populations, so I might add those too.
please do! native flora are super important, especially since large monocultures of a useless crop (grass) have become popular. if your yard is gonna be filled with plants that you aren't using, you might as well fill it with plants that are useful to the environment
Well they're not dead so you're already doing better than me.
I really don't know what you're all getting into a tizz about?! Grows just fine for me ;)
Haha! That's such a stupid thing to do. That's why I've only planted a blackberry in my garden.
fun fact: if you plant oragano next to mint, it will take on a minty flavor.
the tomato mozarella salad I made was... interesting
I'll plant it next to my invasive english ivy and see which one wins...
Let me get in on this. The previous owner of my home planted Garlic. There’s no grass in that corner of my yard now. Just garlic. It escaped the garden bed.
You make that sound like it's a bad thing and not, in fact, free garlic.
I've got privit, onion weed, rust weed and bamboo all fighting it out in gladiatoral combat
And winners reward will be acid ans fire followed by a salting of the earth after which the soil will be evacuated to the clay level before it is dumped in my neighbours yard (where all of these fuckers came from
I have a mint plant in my house, in a pot, that I simply cannot seem keep alive. It has a single stem left that’s trying its hardest to die every moment. I’ve taken it as a personal challenge to nurse it back to health (I need an easy win these days)
Last time I mowed, I noticed a new weed in the yard, popping up all over; this one smelled different, pleasant even. Fuck me, I’ve got a yard full of mint that showed up on its own, I’m guessing to mock my black thumb.
Explain yourself right this instant young man!
Unless all you want to harvest is mint, it's not a good idea to plant mint in the ground. It takes over the whole field.
I was promised this when I planted mint in ground at my old house, and sure enough, the mint took hold. Alas, my insatiable appetite for mojitos was too much demand for the mint to sustain and I eradiacted it through overharvesting.
Wow this grows really well!
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Okay, I’m going to trim this back now.
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How the hell did the mint get over there
Oooohhh noooo, not mint!! How can I ever live with a yard of short, lush, green, plants that smell nice when I cut them, keep pests away, and give me an endless supply of ingredients for drinks and desserts? It's going to cover up all my regular grass that I can't do shit with and benefits no one!
So I'm. Gardener who doesn't know. What is it that i should know?
Mint is extremely hardy, isn’t picky about soil type, spreads quickly, strangles and overtakes whatever is growing with it, and reproduces from the roots. If mint ever goes into the ground, your entire yard will very quickly be overtaken by it even if you start ripping it out as soon as you see it. It’s basically an invasive weed that happens to taste good. Anyone who intends to grow it will keep it in above-ground pots instead. But even then, all it takes is a small sprig landing in the grass, and suddenly your entire lawn is starting to smell minty when you mow.
My grandma's garden got a mint infestation, and I simply rip some up and make fresh mint tea whenever I visit :)
It's really really, good
I had a potted mint in my parents backyard years ago. It grew through the bottom of the pot and started to invade the flower bed. Since then, my parents have drowned the entire bed in weed killer, pulled up everything they could find by the roots, and then put down a tarp and bark chips. Every year, some more mint pops up through all that.
Not a gardener, but I've heard people say it grows like a weed and we should plant some on mars
This bamboo grove is really taking off!
This is a sadness for me, because I really want bamboo I'm my garden, but am hesitant to go through with it for obvious reasons. Almost all the plants I love grow like weeds to the point of it no longer being charming 😭
We planted native honeysuckle as a hedge instead. They grow like weeds too, but at least they will smell nice all the way through summer and autumn, so eh.
See also horseradish, amaranth, native sunflowers, and in my case, tomatoes.
Planted once, 10 yrs later still finding them in every nook and cranny of the neighborhood.
I think most people would be happy with your luck with tomatoes
Its not a weed if its useful. It may just be a little "unwanted at the moment".
My 96 year old neighbor always tells me," a weed is just flower growing somewhere you didn't want it. "
Tried planting mint for several years in a row - seeds, transplants, nursery plants (yes those exist). All died. Finland is a harsh place.
you guys make a lot of fuss about a plant that is tasty and you can eat.
I just wish Kudzu tasted half as fun.
That's why I planted mine in a plant box instead of into garden directly.
I used to have them in plant boxes on the balcony when we lived in a ghetto in a bigger city and the only reason they ended up eventually dying after a reign of Terror in every single plant box on my balcony for a couple years, was because I got depression and forgot to water them during a particularly toasty summer. We are talking three months of scorching heat and no water before they finally admitted defeat.
There is no plant I fear and respect more than mint.
Glad y'all warned me about mint! I'll just plant some nice snow-on-the-mountain in a small little patch over here.
I had mint on my balcony. This spring I saw mint grow around the corner. In my doormat!
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