Mint is fine grass is the devil.
Don’t worry just let my dad do the gardening. He killed the mint, the rhubarb, the blueberries, the redberries and the apple tree with his genius ideas!
I planted mint in a pot. And the roots went out of the bottom of the pot and between the tiles the pot was on, into the ground.
I did this once. Only way to get rid of it was to sell my house.
Tenants take note, give your landlord a lovely gift of established ground mint when you leave your rental!
If you want mint & don’t care about other plants, then I don’t see a problem. Some people might consider its low maintenance effort a good thing. 🤷
Its ability to choke out the weeds at my rental, thereby reducing the amount of weeding i need to do, is much appreciated. Also goes well with roast lamb.
So mint is highly invasive? I was wondering what the elite knowledge was. TBH my guess was that there’s a hallucinogenic plant that looks like mint.
They spread and are really really hard to fully kill
Source: I have no idea why my mint is still alive. It’s waterlogged for half the year and neglected the other half
There is actually a hallucinogenic plant that looks kind of similar to mint, but I think they’re referring to the fact that mint chokes other plants out and just sticks around and keeps coming back.
Why are my neighbors mad? They have all the mint they could want now.
Not to mention that mosquitos hate mint.
Exactly: neighbors can stay mad. Mint is cooler than neighbors arguably (& chemically).
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!?
That’s why I installed Arch instead!
Random thought:
What if people who post in internet comments claiming to use Arch are actually just one person who’s a barely contained SCP?
Is his name Linus?
Does Linus use arch?
Fedora I believe
No
Archus, mirror universe Linus.
I hate you. TAKE MY UPVOTE. You SUDO’D ME TO UPVOTE YOU!
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.
It’s ok though, all the invasive grass people plant on purpose here out grows it and kills it like everything else.
Fuck lawns.
I don’t want to eat the grass though.
you could eat the mint
Exactly.
Meanwhile kudzu is over here like… what trees?
I’ve read that kudzu is nutritious, comparable with potatoes, and is cultivated in China.
My dad used to cook it when I was a kid. Tastes like butterbeans.
Huh, I didn’t know that. Neat.
Goats.
Sweet home Alabama…
One time I did that, and was horrified to see that the next day the gardner removed it and disposed of the body.
It was my baby and it was literally choking itself in every pot I planted it because it would just grow until the entire pot was roots.
I now know that it had to be done, this is what it means to be an adult. To know that sometimes murdering a baby mint is for the greater good T_T
Maybe plant some bamboo to help it
I have some kudzu i could sell you
I wonder what happens if you plant kudzu and bamboo in the same spot, endlessly climbing plant tower?
The solution to the space elevator was sitting there the whole time.
BET YOU WANT TO SELL ME LOW GRADE COPPER INGOTS TOO Ea-nāṣir
No, my friend, only the highest grade copper! And for you, special price too!
Cu must be kidding me!
And some blackberry, too! We could have blackberry mojitos made with bamboo muddlers.
Tbf it would be an awesome garden with endless blackberry and mint! can even smell.it
Now that you mention it, I wouldn’t mind living in that environment.
Evil.
bamboo is the most evil of all of them for sure lol
Strawberries too. If you don’t plant them in containers you’re gonna have a bad time.
The previous owners of my house did this and I’m so thankful. Wild strawberries where I live slowly replace the grass and never grows very tall so this means I don’t have to mow nearly as often.
I’ve tried to plant strawberries and they just get smothered by other weeds.
or a good time…
I’ve got strawberries growing freely in my yard. I don’t see a problem. It stays pretty low to the ground and doesn’t out-compete everything like mint does.
I could never get them grow tho
I obviously don’t know… :(
Edit: Thanks for the answers - now I know! Where I live it doesn’t spread that easily, and often when it’s growing well it disappears overnight or in a matter of days thanks to caterpillars or grasshoppers. I didn’t know it would grow out of control in other places.
Once it gets going … it’s hard to get rid of
I’m not 100% sure, but I think it’s weed.
It’s not weed, it’s that mint is very aggressive in spreading.
I personally like the mint growing in the yard it makes mowing the lawn smell great.
Oh, so it’s not weed, but it’s a weed.
Not weed if you can make mojitos with it
It can still be a weed if you can’t make enough mojitos to keep up with the growth.
Challenge accepted
Are we talking Weed Mojitos? M’confusted?
Weed as a classification is bullshit anyway. Iirc, it’s whatever broad-leaf plants got killed by roundup, Monsanto declared ‘weeds’.
Clover used to be a common part of American lawns
A weed is something you don’t want to grow right there. It just means undesired plant life and changes on a whim.
Monsanto tried to categorize clover as weeds in their advertising because the plant killer that was used to kill broadleaf plants that interfere with grass lawns also kills clover. They demonized clover because it was collateral damage!
That’s why I’m doing my part to help it take over :)
My parents outsource their Lawncare to me, and I have been taking the huge patch of clover near a corn field and transplanting it around their yard. Just cutting a shovel ful of dirt out and swapping them, and watering the area.
No idea if it’ll work the way I want it to, but I guess I’ll see if it spreads this summer.
I’d love to go to my in-laws and use a big seed spreader to throw clover and other native plants around, but that would just lead to them killing it all and hiring a lawn company to replant Kentucky bluegrass or something lame like that.
Clover is pretty hardy and in my experience doesn’t even fight the grass aince they thrive on different nutrients or something like that.
The bur seed clover in my lawn, shits a nightmare to deal with. Dogs get the seeds in every inch of fur, spread it around the lawn and hack them up when grooming themselves.
It’s mostly under control after a few years of tackling it.
I’d love another variant to replace the horrible one I’ve got.
Ok, that sounds like it sucks.
But that isn’t the clover we are talking about when we say clover is awesome. White clover is generally what people are referring to when they are talking about lawns and landscaping.
Red clover is native to the west coast, it’s edible, makes a good incense apparently, and it looks rather handsome imo.
I keep telling people to let clover grow, and half the stuff that’s supposedly bad for their lawn is actually good for a healthy patch of dirt but someone invented a problem so they could sell the solution.
I’ve actually had landscaping people knock on my door and explain that half my lawn is weeds and they can take care of it for me on a 6 month contract or whatever bs…
Like Bruh my lawn is carefully cultivated to grow all natural native plants, specifically with the intent of boosting local insect and pollinator activity, there’s a reason this half-are is the only place you see butterflies.
I’m not about to let some punk in headphones and a “Lastname Lawncare” t-shirt flatten all of this to 1/2in of plain green uniform grass. That’s boring as shit. And bad for the environment. And boring. as. shit.
Let’s fucking go!
Dam dog you got a bio lawn of local fauna and flora?
This guy knows how to progress.
Prograss
Look at Mr. Green Thumbs over here!
Seriously though I’m just jealous you have a yard to do this in.
It’s not owned by me, but it’s tended by me for now. I also am tending to my parents yard this summer, and trying to transplant clover around their yard. Sofar the patches are still green but it’s not quite growing time yet to see how well it’ll take hold.
herbs are just weeds that taste and/or smell good.
Oh thank God I was worried there was some meme about an incel jacking off on it I didn’t know about
that’s not a meme. that’s all they do.
I grow my mint along the side of the house where the HVAC condensation runs out! It helps with the whole area just being a giant muddy mess since it is also on the shady side of the house.
It is classified in my state as a weed
Weeds don’t actually exist. It’s just a term we invented for plants we don’t like.
People who say this have never battled goat head burr, burr clover or bristly ox tongue. Invasive as shit, crowd out threatened species and necessary natives for plant-specific pollinators, poke through your shoes and bike tires and generally run your day.
“A weed is a plant considered undesirable in a particular situation, growing where it conflicts with human preferences, needs, or goals” - Wikipedia
“Taxonomically the term “weed” has no botanical significance” - Wikipedia
Ok…? I really don’t get this “I love all plants equally, peace on earth, bro” messaging that pops up any time someone mentions a highly invasive plant.
Some plants, in the wrong spaces, are highly damaging to wildlife on many levels. It’s not just about wanting a monocultured lawn and having been tricked by Monsanto propaganda.
I think you got me wrong. What made you think I like invasive plants? I’m aware they’re an ecological disaster. The term weed just pisses me off. People spray chemicals on their lawns to kill off native plants because they’re “weeds”. Fuck grass and fuck invasive plants (like grass). I can think of quite a few plants I hate and would like eraticated from North America actually.
Also catnip, but with catnip there’s a 50% chance neighborhood cats will show up and roll on it until it dies.
(Catnip is a type of mint)
I’ve had a catmint bush for a few years now, and it’s topped out at about the size of an Australian spider.
I think the neighborhood cats keep it pretty well groomed. It’s very popular, even in the winter.
Bees seem to love the catnip that grows in my garden at least. I think last summer I counted 8 different kinds of bees enjoying it.
The cutest pollinator!
Thank you! Time to lure some cats to the yard.
Catnip brings all the cats to the yard.
And they’re like: meow and purrs
Damn right, meow and purrs.
I could teach you, but I got some shit I need to knock off a counter somewhere.
The abandoning of the rhythm is such a cat thing to do.
Fuck mint, I spend months trying to get rid of it from my last place
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.
Trading one invasive monoculture for another isn’t really an upgrade, though you may get more utlity from mint. And your neighbors may set fire to your property.
Also ivy. A curse on whoever first brought English ivy to the Americas.
Can confirm, I’ve been waging war on the Ivy in my backyard and I’m definitely not winning.
It takes a real focused effort. Tear out as much rhizome as you can and cover the entire effected area in a smothering layer. I prefer cardboard or newspaper because inorganic root barriers were sent by Satan to destroy us, but it had to be a substantial layer. Hold it down with mulch and/or decent topsoil and watch it like a hawk. Sow native wildflowers the first year, something that will hold the layer together without requiring much maintenance because odds are high you’re gonna be back in there tearing it up and finding more ivy rhizome and there’s no sense destroying something you love. But you need something there because you’re also being assaulted from the air.
Birds spread ivy in their shit. They eat the berries, fly everywhere, and deposit noxious invasives wherever they go. You need aggressive natives to maintain the front line and keep those turd seeds from finding purchase. So you gotta be out there fortnightly to check for little English sprouts as well as hoping the subterranean menace is subdued.
When you have a year with no ivy bring in even more good soil and bury it good, then do whatever you want but never grow complacent.
This strategy applies to most horrible weeds but some cannot be reliably smothered and must be physically removed in their entirety so rent a Bobcat or something and try not to cry.
ivy vs mint, deathbattle rules, who wins?
My money is on ivy but there’s a chance they form a symbiotic mass.
that would actually be aweful
Copper nail or a little hole in a thicker wood and inject some bleach in there. It will kill it down to the root.
Mint
Mint everywhere.
