Also catnip, but with catnip there’s a 50% chance neighborhood cats will show up and roll on it until it dies.
You know what’s also invasive?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houttuynia_cordata
The last people to own our house planted this stuff in the ground. It’s also called fish mint, because it smells like fish when you cut it.
There is a reason why I planted my piperita in a pot, far off the ground.
Tldr Mint is invasive.
How do you know I don’t live in western and central Asia, east to the Himalaya and eastern Siberia, where we all know mint is native!?
Not sure what you are talking about exactly. I’m stating this from the perspective of a gardener and forager.
I’m not sure what I’m talking about, either. Just a dumb joke.
We put a few mint plants in a large concrete planter and it filled the whole planter in one season. It does keep mice, cats, and mosquitos away.
Pair it with raspberries
Just put them in raised beds and then mow right up to that bitch, they wont make it out.
I’ve seen it grow low. Like thyme.
My buddy warned me about the mint the pervious owners planted, and I pulled it right away. It was right by our basement entrance so I frequently peer in and inspect for mint shoots. I think there must be a buried barrier or something (like landscaping cloth) preventing it from spreading outside the bed it was in. I found a small sprig 4 years after pulling everything I could find.
Our soil is almost entirely clay and rock to the point that most grasses also fail to grow. I wouldn’t mind something nice like mint or another invasive plant if it meant actually having something grow at all…
It takes very little top soil for most grasses and sedges to thrive
-on clay
IDK. I like the wild mint patch in our lawn. Want some mint? Just go grab some mint.
ENJOY THE MINT EVERYONE
Maybe add some white cover, some comfrey, sunchoke, raspberries, and you’ve got a permaculture paradise!
I didn’t realize how raspberries propagated until after I’d planted it in my tiny bed. The fucker spends every spring plotting world domination.
You expect them to survive in a mint-infested ground?
Its funny I tried basically all those and none of them could survive or compete against my neighbors accidental thistle farm.
Not even the mint.
laughs in Bermuda grass
source: gardener
Whats actually wrong with this? I feel like a lawn full of mint is infinitely better than the short grass suburb lawns that are so pervasive.
I’ve planted mint, strawberries, and raspberries. But this is the last time I’ll get to see how far they’ve made it. I planted them to go to war with the buffle grass, tumble weeds, and tree of heaven. I can still drive by in a few years and see how its going.
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I thought it only really thrived near water.
Depends on where you live. Mint does have limits. It really dislikes dry and cold. We’ve planted it several times here and it’s quite difficult to keep it alive. Our growing season is quite short so it’s a bit depressing to have it die so quickly.
