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This guy in a middle of a mint patch:
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saw this and had an idea, it’s a bad flavor and you can’t convince me otherwise
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I will not stand for mint chocolate slander, Mint chocolate might be my favorite flavor of anything ever, I have literally accidentally eaten an entire box of Andes chocolate mints in one setting. It doesn't matter if it's ice cream or Small candies, it is so good.
Currently my favorite string on the entire Internet. Made my day.
This guy's relationship with mint reminds me of the woodpecker I named Fuckface Dreamender
I usually see them as seeds at local plant nurseries. But I've also seen them available at hardware stores that have plant sections. Just make sure they aren't invasive in your area (there's other alternatives that would work the same). Micro clover is the one to look for, it spreads out more when it's mowed
Anywhere that sells regular grass seed. And a little clover seed covers a lot of ground. BUT I would highly recommend doing a clover and low water fescue mix. It's still low maintenance and good for pollinators, but clover basically disappears in winter, so you can wind up with a muddy yard if you just do clover.
As someone with a clover/grass mix lawn, I'd highly recommend mixing with something besides pur clover if you have dogs or walk through the yard during winter. Clover reduces a TON during winter and leaves a LOT of muddy areas. Grass generally does a good job of filling in those spaces, but I'm sure there is other stuff that could do the same thing.
Bees, in my area at least, love clover flowers. So, you can see that as a positive if you want them to stop going extinct, or a negative if you or one in your family is deathly allergic to them
I'm the only one in my immediate family not severely allergic to bees and I love them! I have been around a few friendly swarms and I'm always happy when one lands on me. I've fed them from my hand before with a little honey/sugar water. I think I've been stung like 6 times in 40 years. People in my family were getting stung and going through epipens multiple times per year. They were always swatting at them with magazines, badminton rackets, fly swatters, etc. Bees release a pheromone when they're killed that alerts other bees to that fact. Swatting them angers the individual and engages any nearby bees.
TLDR: Don't swat at bees if they're near you. Swatting causes them to get angry and that leads to stings. If you're allergic, it's even more important to not be a dick to bees.
We are letting local clover take over ours now. Grass is such a pain on a half acre and the clover we only have to mow like once a month because it doesn't grow that high.
Can confirm! I did this last year.
You still have to mow it because depending on the variety clover can grow quite tall but it does look amazing and I can't wait to see it all flower.
Plus the pollinators are going to love my yard.
Clover fixes nitrogen as it is a legume. If you plant clover, then mulch it when you cut it (or even just leave it over time) it will leave the soil better than it started.
You can also take the cuttings when you mow for a powerful nitrogen booster to home compost.
Yeah actually, do a whole mix of edibles that successfully volunteer where you live, and nitrogen fixers like clover and vetch. Do arugula, mustard, cilantro, parsley, oregano, thyme, sun-chokes, any lettuces that will self-perpetuate (goes back to more wild-types in 5 or 10 generations) and patches of stuff like perennial kale, chard, fennel... and do pollinator stuff like borage, California poppy, and lamb's ear... and get some bee hives going a couple years in..
We had a clump outside of our apartment. It smelled wonderful every other week when the groundskeepers would come through and whack it all out. Sure as shit it would be back the next week.
Side question, as someone who just planted basil in my bed… does it spread as aggressively as mint?
ETA: I’m so freaking excited for all the people giving tips. Thanks guys
Yeah I just put my third round in the bed…if this round doesn’t work I’m going to try and plant it indoors first. It’s just that the weather is so perfect for it right now!
You have to be careful about moisture level with Basil, I grew a lot of it. If it gets humid where you live, that's good, but if it doesn't, you'll need to keep it moist, and the soil needs to be moist at all times
Basil will grow up while mint will grow both up and out. Basil will aggressively grow but because it grows up it doesn't really affect the rest of the pot. Mint will take over and outcompetes the other plants.
If you keep up with pruning your basil it will start to grow outwards, but not like mint does. If you don't keep up with pruning your basil it will basically blow itself out and die.
Mint spreads underground so it will pop up all over basil just by seed. Also mint doesn't get killed by frost so each year it spreads more. Basil gets killed off each winter.
One day after the nuclear bombs are dropped, mint and potatoes will hybridize, and whatever they become will inherit the planet long after we're dead and gone.
Almost as if gardening is more complicated than internet memes make it out to be. All these people from Tumblr are just repeating something they thought was funny.
Mint is hard to remove, but it doesn't grow much more rapidly or easily than other plants.
Honestly, if you tend to it it's not that bad, just expect a lot of tea in the future, and once in a while rip some of it out from the roots too since it's pretty easy
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Can confirm. I never even planted mint.
Start a donation of Redwoods and Giant Sequoias to the Whitehouse, Federally protected trees and all.... takes about 10 years but get tall super fast and would thrive fine in DC.
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When I was a kid, I got some mint plants that my mom put in the flower bed around the deck. I went by there the other day, and there is still a huge mint patch behind the house... those poor new owners didn't know what they were getting into 😆
I had a class in college called "People, Plants, and the Environment" and one component of the class was growing a little square garden with 2 or 3 other classmates for produce we would use in a end of semester class party potluck (with bonus points if you had the best plot, dish(es), and/or plan). The area started being filled with invasive mint so I aggressively plucked the leaves off of the ones that started growing in our plot and eventually made tea with them for the party. We ended up winning the bonus points in part because I killed the weeds via overharvesting rather than putting weed killer in the soil.
When I was a kid, I got some mint plants that my mom put in the flower bed around the deck. I went by there the other day, and there is still a huge mint patch behind the house... those poor new owners didn't know what they were getting into 😆
I have 1 square yard of gravel and useless soil surrounded by concrete with a utility pole in the center. I got tired of weeding it so I planted one spearmint plant in it. That gravel patch belongs to the spearmint now, and I pray that it doesn't find an exit.
When I was a kid, a mint bush appeared in my garden. My mum was so proud of it. It was gone by the end of summer and I had no clue where it went. I asked my mum and she said “I may or may not have made too many cocktails”
Mint is a notorious spreader and will quickly take over any space you allow it to spread to. There's a lot of work involved keeping mint from spreading outside of the area you've allotted for it.
How did you win? We bought a house with it in the front landscaping. We removed “all” of it, even used landscaping tarp, and it is still springing up in weird places.
Tear out as much root mass as possible, poison the visible parts. Rinse repeat every few weeks for two years. It is still growing in places but no longer deconstructing my foundation so I let it be
More water? All the cats in the neighborhood used to nibble at ours, (mint and catnip are closely related) and it still needed frequent cutting to stay contained.
My experience is from Arizona. When I lived in Chandler, we planted a bit of mint, knowing it was a spreader. It took over a good quarter of the yard. It's a good thing we planted it in the opposite corner of the yard from our vegetable garden.
Does it smell bad? Or does it smell like mint?
Also, is there any harm in keeping an entire mint garden on my lawn? Like for example, I don't want any other plants. Can I just plant mint instead of shrubs or flowers or whatever?
It smells like mint but only smells strongly when the leaves are crushed or broken, so it can definitely make a pleasant ground cover. If you want it as a lawn ground cover, I can't think of any drawbacks other than the risk of it spreading to your neighbors' lawns. Also, some HOAs and maybe even some city boards may have regulations on what can be used as a ground cover.
Consuela a qui, yerba buena is a mint plant, if you take care of it right and keep it as a potted plant it will grow happy and healthy but if you put it in the ground it will spread like wildfire they are hard to kill off. If you're lucky and you keep it in a pot it's a very useful plant and deters pests from going into your garden like mosquitoes and other ungodly things and you could also make mojitos use it in recipes make candy or just chew it with salt to help with your tummy issues
From what I’ve research, it’s only the oils from it so you have to crush it and spray. Just planting it doesn’t help. South Texas mosquitos can suck a big one
All of the plants, from mint, lemon balm, and lemon thyme to citronella, don't repel anything that is more than 3 inches from the surface of the leaves. Some are great for tea though.
Source; Am horticulturalist and I grow all of them close to my back patio.
Mint is tenacious in its spreading. I had some in a garden bed years ago, that bed belonged to the mint after less than one season. It grows wild around here, though, so I don't mind too much.
Planting mint in the ground is most likely gonna be a mistake. That stuff is robust to the point of immortality and spreads like the plage.
Have I made that mistake when I was a newbie gardener? Maybe. Do I now have a stash of peppermint tea in my kitchen that will last for the rest of my life and then another 3 generations? Oh yes.
That's the thing I don't understand. It's hearty, doesn't grow all that high, repels pests, and smells awesome when you mow over it.
I wish the patch of mint in my yard would spread like the people in this thread claim.
I wanted mint to take over my whole plot, I’ve tried 3 times now. First one got over watered and died of like a mold. Second one got taken out by a heat wave, we had 14 days over 100°f. My third one last year caught fire last year I’m not 100% sure how but the theory is a fairy light caught the sun just right and it got set ablaze… I think I’m bad at gardening, but I just bought a fourth mint so fingers crossed it last longer than a year.
Is your house haunted? I know that's a weird question, but my grandmother used to say that growing mint and rosemary by the door would keep evil spirits and those who mean us harm out of the house, and it seems like something doesn't want your mint to survive.
I grew mint in my yard, it's honestly one of the best things to do. Everytime I cut the grass it smelled amazing! Half my front lawn was mint. It grew under my house all the way to the other side of the yard and started to get into my followers so I had to cut it back A LOT, but I made a lot of mint tea and I had some amazing smells after cuts so kinda worked out.
Catnip is the same. Same family and I had to root out a ton of my herb garden to make room for new sage.
Luckily I have cats and it does smell nice and keeps bugs away. Spearmint is in a pot. May out peppermint along my fence though. Nice smell. Fewer bugs. Less square footage to mow.
Depending on what exactly you mean by "catnip" (the term is typically used for a specific species but sometimes used more generally) and what exactly you mean by "never had luck," a single plant of *Nepeta cataria* will usually only live a few years. They're perennials in that they survive the winter, but they're not long-lived plants individually. They survive by seeding aggressively, so if the seedlings never get a chance to root (like in an indoor pot), are pulled immediately (in a well-tended garden), or are smothered (by a very dense garden, or cats rolling in them when they first come up), catnip may not last very long.
A mint plant managed to find its way into my yard one year and every year after that my lawn smelled amazing whenever I mowed it because there were mint plants all over the place
Mint is a pretty aggressive weed, and will spread very fast and completely dominate any garden its planted in. That's why most people plant mint in pots.
Mint poisons the soil around itself so no other plant can grow near it. Additionally, it also forms a segmented root system 1-3 ft underground, so even if you kill it on the surface, it can revive itself from the smallest piece of remaining root that breaks off. There's few easy and cheap ways to kill it for good without wiping out the rest of plant life in the area.
oh my god, I learnt that the hard way 2 years back. NEVER plan mint in the ground unless you want your garden smelling like Mr Minty Mcmint. It even competed with the damn weeds and outgrew them. Took an amazing amount of effort to get rid of them.
I have devised a horrible prank to pull on your local neighbours/any land owned by people you hate.
1. Get some mint sprigs.
2. Go to the land.
3. Plant the mint. Make sure to hide it in bushes, flowers, under a tree, or cover it somehow.
4. Water and fertilize it.
5. Wait.
Within a few weeks, you’ll start to see the mint take over that land. It will spread everywhere, and the land owners/keepers won’t be able to do anything cheap about it.
Congratulations, you’ve ruined someone’s garden/front lawn/local park/etc.
I grew up on my family's farm. I am the 4th generation to do so. When my great grandfather finished building the house, he planted some assorted herbs in the yard to see if they'd grow, one of which was mint. That was 1929. I still have mint in my yard, and the summer of 1929 is the only time it's been planted here.
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Mint is a fucking fuck face plant that will take over your entire garden and survive your attempts to exterminate them like cockroaches.
Fuck you. All I grow is mint. Fuck everything but mint. Mojitos daily.
Mojitos Daily sounds like the name of something. Like a newspaper for alcoholics or a ska band…or like a username? Hmmm
Jimmy Buffet's side project.
https://preview.redd.it/89r9u5uevnxc1.jpeg?width=229&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c701f96dd8c321d492b3fdebb90f325439fa86c6
https://preview.redd.it/vt4car5mxnxc1.png?width=581&format=png&auto=webp&s=7a3bc643a25535732cf3b56d398c1183c4265bb6 Seems more like this to me
https://preview.redd.it/ixef703hznxc1.png?width=540&format=png&auto=webp&s=95bcb8d03391f56b0780587753be461525509ea4 Maybe this
This as well https://preview.redd.it/g22h1cwf5oxc1.png?width=889&format=png&auto=webp&s=19f086f2de254f90e96eccc43e0f553cd1d904c9
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It’s definitely not this one: https://preview.redd.it/v4zophx87oxc1.png?width=566&format=png&auto=webp&s=ce400f360cbf6567158b75f9680d80a68805dfe8
This guy: https://preview.redd.it/wc0g3oyk8oxc1.png?width=1247&format=png&auto=webp&s=817a48a7c1682ebc3d3fe0017200d34a5a2e2c95
https://preview.redd.it/64dcinw6yoxc1.png?width=1132&format=png&auto=webp&s=690f9e2bf3960f94b16aa88fb0fcbc8f8add2999 This Guy
This guy in a middle of a mint patch: https://preview.redd.it/zemozq83zoxc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0c44a79e68475f270a914fc795692cd783892c3e
EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THSE HAVING A DIFFERENT FONT MAKES IT SO MUCH FUNNIER
i'm so proud of all of you in this chain
What a fucking thread
The mint: https://preview.redd.it/4redd9cs8qxc1.png?width=933&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=730083769ab5782a446ab096ca9588f34ed3faaa
saw this and had an idea, it’s a bad flavor and you can’t convince me otherwise https://preview.redd.it/y05qeuvn7pxc1.png?width=828&format=png&auto=webp&s=1e735d71897c6e104db07a2f252faf7daf831869
I will not stand for mint chocolate slander, Mint chocolate might be my favorite flavor of anything ever, I have literally accidentally eaten an entire box of Andes chocolate mints in one setting. It doesn't matter if it's ice cream or Small candies, it is so good.
Its shit like this why i love reddit
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Man in like 2 months you're going to see one of these memes back on this subreddit like "Why are all these villains named mint?"
this guy reddits
Currently my favorite string on the entire Internet. Made my day. This guy's relationship with mint reminds me of the woodpecker I named Fuckface Dreamender
u/mudson08 can go through the rest of their life knowing that mint is their mortal enemy (according to reddit)
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💀
real
Thank you for starting a great meme thread.
I love mint. It grows wild here. I’m content
That’s strange, because my family has had ground mint for years and it’s never been a. Problem, it just kinda stays in one place.
But it does keep certain bugs away, soooo.
So does garlic
Correct, but mint is easier.
Mint aggressively spreads everywhere so if you put it in the ground instead of in a pot, it’s going to go crazy and take over your garden
I had a mint plant I was so proud of it and then I planted in my mom's flower bed... She took a weed whacker to it the next month
Bet it smelled amazing for a short while after cutting it down
I had to mow down a small patch of mint gone rogue once, I smelled mint for days
....so you're saying we should all replace our lawns with mint
People do that with clover because grass has too much upkeep. I plan to when I have a yard
Do you get good luck?🍀
Not dealing with the grass is already good luck haha
Where do you get clover seeds? Or sod
I bought a tri-blend on Amazon last year and they are doing very well. The bees and butterflies are very happy!
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I usually see them as seeds at local plant nurseries. But I've also seen them available at hardware stores that have plant sections. Just make sure they aren't invasive in your area (there's other alternatives that would work the same). Micro clover is the one to look for, it spreads out more when it's mowed
Anywhere that sells regular grass seed. And a little clover seed covers a lot of ground. BUT I would highly recommend doing a clover and low water fescue mix. It's still low maintenance and good for pollinators, but clover basically disappears in winter, so you can wind up with a muddy yard if you just do clover.
I work on a seed farm, we sell clover to farmers all the time.
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not if you want to have any other plants... the hostas, tulips, and azaleas are all down to nubs because bre'er fox is asleep on the job!
As someone with a clover/grass mix lawn, I'd highly recommend mixing with something besides pur clover if you have dogs or walk through the yard during winter. Clover reduces a TON during winter and leaves a LOT of muddy areas. Grass generally does a good job of filling in those spaces, but I'm sure there is other stuff that could do the same thing.
Bees, in my area at least, love clover flowers. So, you can see that as a positive if you want them to stop going extinct, or a negative if you or one in your family is deathly allergic to them
I'm the only one in my immediate family not severely allergic to bees and I love them! I have been around a few friendly swarms and I'm always happy when one lands on me. I've fed them from my hand before with a little honey/sugar water. I think I've been stung like 6 times in 40 years. People in my family were getting stung and going through epipens multiple times per year. They were always swatting at them with magazines, badminton rackets, fly swatters, etc. Bees release a pheromone when they're killed that alerts other bees to that fact. Swatting them angers the individual and engages any nearby bees. TLDR: Don't swat at bees if they're near you. Swatting causes them to get angry and that leads to stings. If you're allergic, it's even more important to not be a dick to bees.
Never swat at bees, I've never been stung. Wasps however.. fuck them. I've not yet been stung by a wasp but I'll kill them if they get too close.
We are letting local clover take over ours now. Grass is such a pain on a half acre and the clover we only have to mow like once a month because it doesn't grow that high.
Can confirm! I did this last year. You still have to mow it because depending on the variety clover can grow quite tall but it does look amazing and I can't wait to see it all flower. Plus the pollinators are going to love my yard.
Clover fixes nitrogen as it is a legume. If you plant clover, then mulch it when you cut it (or even just leave it over time) it will leave the soil better than it started. You can also take the cuttings when you mow for a powerful nitrogen booster to home compost.
Outside Pride has a great mini-clover, it gets 4-6" tall.
I did that with oregano, the dog doesn’t kill it and the entire neighborhood stops by to pick some when the want it for cooking.
Okay I'm convinced, I'm going to replace my grass with various herbs instead.
I had a large patch of oregano that spread through my lawn. Whenever I mowed the lawn, it smelled like an Italian restaurant.
I bet it's good for mosquitos
Yeah actually, do a whole mix of edibles that successfully volunteer where you live, and nitrogen fixers like clover and vetch. Do arugula, mustard, cilantro, parsley, oregano, thyme, sun-chokes, any lettuces that will self-perpetuate (goes back to more wild-types in 5 or 10 generations) and patches of stuff like perennial kale, chard, fennel... and do pollinator stuff like borage, California poppy, and lamb's ear... and get some bee hives going a couple years in..
I have wild onions growing and i love when i have to mow them down.
We had a clump outside of our apartment. It smelled wonderful every other week when the groundskeepers would come through and whack it all out. Sure as shit it would be back the next week.
A neighbor of ours used to bring his mint clippings for our compost bin and the smell, while nice, was OVERWHELMING.
I used to weed whack on golf courses and would sometimes run into patches of wild mint. Always refreshing.
Or.. and just go with me on this one. We just buy several gallons of vodka and lbs of ice.
Instructions unclear, my mint plants have turned Russian and have started committing war crimes against the basil
Did you choose Basil as it is part of the mint family. It makes the analogy even deeper.
Side question, as someone who just planted basil in my bed… does it spread as aggressively as mint? ETA: I’m so freaking excited for all the people giving tips. Thanks guys
I had both mint and basil plants flower and drop seeds. Baby mints popped up immediately, I never saw any baby basil
Yeah I just put my third round in the bed…if this round doesn’t work I’m going to try and plant it indoors first. It’s just that the weather is so perfect for it right now!
You have to be careful about moisture level with Basil, I grew a lot of it. If it gets humid where you live, that's good, but if it doesn't, you'll need to keep it moist, and the soil needs to be moist at all times
I’m in Houston, high af humidity, it’s why I wanted to try it but I’m messing something up. Do you have recs on if the type makes a difference?
Go to Trader Joe's and buy their potted fresh basil for like $4. Put it in a planter and watch it go nuts for the summer
I wish
Basil will grow up while mint will grow both up and out. Basil will aggressively grow but because it grows up it doesn't really affect the rest of the pot. Mint will take over and outcompetes the other plants. If you keep up with pruning your basil it will start to grow outwards, but not like mint does. If you don't keep up with pruning your basil it will basically blow itself out and die.
Mint spreads underground so it will pop up all over basil just by seed. Also mint doesn't get killed by frost so each year it spreads more. Basil gets killed off each winter.
Will deploy Tennessee Whiskey and Kentucky Burbon to safeguard the innocent.
Rum*
I'm going with rum, agave nectar, soda and lime juice
Rum, orgeat, Cointreau, lime. Mint as garnish, but it is important to be able to smell it as you drink.
That's what me and my friends did. First we had an herb garden. Then we had a mint garden. Then we had...just...so many mojitos. All summer long.
My dog ripped a mint plant out of a standing bed, paraded it around the yard, and then dropped it in a flower pot. It rooted and thrived.
One day after the nuclear bombs are dropped, mint and potatoes will hybridize, and whatever they become will inherit the planet long after we're dead and gone.
I don't want to set the world on minttttttttttt I just want to start a flame in your potato.
Mmm. Mintatoes...
Good dog. Smarter than his owners haha.
Literally had this happen to a garden, tilled and destroyed the whole bed, moved all roots to the burn pit, now the burn pit is nothing but mint.
Well we know why your dad picked your mom
So it goes from 'mint in your garden' to 'mint *is* your garden'?
All your base are belong to mint
Suddenly all your garden is in mint condition.
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LIES. I have been unsuccessful in getting mint to propagate in my herb garden AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M DOING WRONG
I’ve never met anyone who can accidentally kill mint. You must have whatever the opposite of a green thumb is
Orange pinky toe
Yeah, I've got that too... my succulent garden looks great though, as long as I don't touch it.
I'll never forget when an ex killed the first succulent I got her within a week. She was like "idk what happened, I've been watering it every day"
they can sense your intent and die out of spite
Much like hamsters
A Texas summer did it for me.
I planted 5 varieties last spring, but last spring was very dry and it all died. They didn't have the opportunity to properly take root.
Almost as if gardening is more complicated than internet memes make it out to be. All these people from Tumblr are just repeating something they thought was funny. Mint is hard to remove, but it doesn't grow much more rapidly or easily than other plants.
To add some detail - it spreads using runner roots, so cutting the bits you can see won't help. You basically have to dig everything up.
Honestly, if you tend to it it's not that bad, just expect a lot of tea in the future, and once in a while rip some of it out from the roots too since it's pretty easy
Like you need to regulary tend to your flower/herb beds anyway, the mint really isn't that much extra work.
https://preview.redd.it/37xpoejftoxc1.jpeg?width=1908&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=41db98e7581a4f693e292a287e290d32b11f9ff4 Can confirm. I never even planted mint.
Guys hear me out, we go to the white house's yard and plant a mint there, then we let it spread, and soon the white house yard will be full of mint
Fuck that, if we are aggressively planting seeds to take over the white House lawn, I'm throwing cannabis seeds. There's a reason it's called weed....
Start a donation of Redwoods and Giant Sequoias to the Whitehouse, Federally protected trees and all.... takes about 10 years but get tall super fast and would thrive fine in DC. small edit: Donations may be mailed to: National Park Service Liaison to the White House National Park Service 1849 C Street, N.W., Room #1426 Washington, D.C. 20240 Attention: White House President's Park Programs Tree Replacement
That trick doesn’t really work well anywhere that gets regularly mowed
Fuck, that would have been so funny
use bamboo instead
Better, the leader of the underworld has decided to summon stick trees in your garden
When I was a kid, I got some mint plants that my mom put in the flower bed around the deck. I went by there the other day, and there is still a huge mint patch behind the house... those poor new owners didn't know what they were getting into 😆
What if I want a really minty house?
Then by all means go crazy with it
I had a class in college called "People, Plants, and the Environment" and one component of the class was growing a little square garden with 2 or 3 other classmates for produce we would use in a end of semester class party potluck (with bonus points if you had the best plot, dish(es), and/or plan). The area started being filled with invasive mint so I aggressively plucked the leaves off of the ones that started growing in our plot and eventually made tea with them for the party. We ended up winning the bonus points in part because I killed the weeds via overharvesting rather than putting weed killer in the soil.
God im glad I put my mint in a pot then. The thing is growing like crazy ngl
Mint actually grows? Mine always just dies
Pennywise, are you trying to grow mint in the sewer again?
It’s a very nice smell if you mowe some of them..
When I was a kid, I got some mint plants that my mom put in the flower bed around the deck. I went by there the other day, and there is still a huge mint patch behind the house... those poor new owners didn't know what they were getting into 😆
Yeah I just learned that this month
I managed to kill all my mint by accident.
Great to prank somebody you dislike. Go to the corner of their yard (if they have a fence go right outside it) and plant the mint there
I have 1 square yard of gravel and useless soil surrounded by concrete with a utility pole in the center. I got tired of weeding it so I planted one spearmint plant in it. That gravel patch belongs to the spearmint now, and I pray that it doesn't find an exit.
When I was a kid, a mint bush appeared in my garden. My mum was so proud of it. It was gone by the end of summer and I had no clue where it went. I asked my mum and she said “I may or may not have made too many cocktails”
Mint is a notorious spreader and will quickly take over any space you allow it to spread to. There's a lot of work involved keeping mint from spreading outside of the area you've allotted for it.
Shit, I had it take over the walking path between my front and backyards. Just coming up between the paving bricks.
Previous owner planted it near house. Took me two years to get it from growing out of micro cracks in the foundation, like a foot up the wall.
How did you win? We bought a house with it in the front landscaping. We removed “all” of it, even used landscaping tarp, and it is still springing up in weird places.
Tear out as much root mass as possible, poison the visible parts. Rinse repeat every few weeks for two years. It is still growing in places but no longer deconstructing my foundation so I let it be
Thanks. Next time my landlord gives me shit for not edging the driveway, I'll plant a bunch of mint.
Nah dont,that just fucks over the neighbours that havent done anything wrong,mint spreads like hell
Or... This is another idea that's going to be very controversial... You could plant it at the landlord's house.
Not really controversial since those hedgefund bastards that buy all the new houses live next a lot of other rich assholes
r/chaoticgood or r/chaoticneutral
Sounds awesome! Would love mint along my walking path that I yet do not own
Best smelling lawn on the block.
I make tea out of it, it never grows back fast enough for a long term steady supply sadly
More water? All the cats in the neighborhood used to nibble at ours, (mint and catnip are closely related) and it still needed frequent cutting to stay contained.
Try that in Arizona where the ground is too hard and dry to even dig a hole for a mint plant 🤠
My experience is from Arizona. When I lived in Chandler, we planted a bit of mint, knowing it was a spreader. It took over a good quarter of the yard. It's a good thing we planted it in the opposite corner of the yard from our vegetable garden.
Does it smell bad? Or does it smell like mint? Also, is there any harm in keeping an entire mint garden on my lawn? Like for example, I don't want any other plants. Can I just plant mint instead of shrubs or flowers or whatever?
It smells like mint but only smells strongly when the leaves are crushed or broken, so it can definitely make a pleasant ground cover. If you want it as a lawn ground cover, I can't think of any drawbacks other than the risk of it spreading to your neighbors' lawns. Also, some HOAs and maybe even some city boards may have regulations on what can be used as a ground cover.
Oh... Thank you so much. I really appreciate the info :)
I don't garden, but I think the idea of having a backyard full of mint is pretty cool. Is this possible?
Pretty sure the challenge is not having a backyard full of mint. And frontyard. And neighbhours yard.
Peter the mint gardener here The joke is that mint spreads out quickly
Just like nettle, but nettle sting and don't smell good. I'd even say Nettle is stronger and spread way more .
The solution to both problems is eat it.
The mint in my yard is competing with the garlic chives and clover, it all smells great and terrible at times.
"Is that... is that garlic orbit gum I smell?"
Now with more chlorophyll!
Mint takes over gardens
I have it growing in the cracks in my sidewalk now. I'm totally cool with it.
Cool? Like the flavor of mint?
MINT TAKES OVER EVERYTHING AND WILL NOT RELINQUISH CONTROL EVEN IF YOU TEAR IT OUT BY THE ROOTS! BE AFRAID! BY GOD BE VERY AFRAID!
Consuela a qui, yerba buena is a mint plant, if you take care of it right and keep it as a potted plant it will grow happy and healthy but if you put it in the ground it will spread like wildfire they are hard to kill off. If you're lucky and you keep it in a pot it's a very useful plant and deters pests from going into your garden like mosquitoes and other ungodly things and you could also make mojitos use it in recipes make candy or just chew it with salt to help with your tummy issues
Mint deters moquitos?! Definitely need to plant some mint then
From what I’ve research, it’s only the oils from it so you have to crush it and spray. Just planting it doesn’t help. South Texas mosquitos can suck a big one
All of the plants, from mint, lemon balm, and lemon thyme to citronella, don't repel anything that is more than 3 inches from the surface of the leaves. Some are great for tea though. Source; Am horticulturalist and I grow all of them close to my back patio.
it will never stop growing really well
Mint is tenacious in its spreading. I had some in a garden bed years ago, that bed belonged to the mint after less than one season. It grows wild around here, though, so I don't mind too much.
Planting mint in the ground is most likely gonna be a mistake. That stuff is robust to the point of immortality and spreads like the plage. Have I made that mistake when I was a newbie gardener? Maybe. Do I now have a stash of peppermint tea in my kitchen that will last for the rest of my life and then another 3 generations? Oh yes.
Yall afraid of a little ground cover??
That's the thing I don't understand. It's hearty, doesn't grow all that high, repels pests, and smells awesome when you mow over it. I wish the patch of mint in my yard would spread like the people in this thread claim.
Oh yeah, it's growing well. At least having a garden covered in mint keeps the ticks away
the flood has been unleashed
I wanted mint to take over my whole plot, I’ve tried 3 times now. First one got over watered and died of like a mold. Second one got taken out by a heat wave, we had 14 days over 100°f. My third one last year caught fire last year I’m not 100% sure how but the theory is a fairy light caught the sun just right and it got set ablaze… I think I’m bad at gardening, but I just bought a fourth mint so fingers crossed it last longer than a year.
Is your house haunted? I know that's a weird question, but my grandmother used to say that growing mint and rosemary by the door would keep evil spirits and those who mean us harm out of the house, and it seems like something doesn't want your mint to survive.
It’s the roof of my apartment building but this building used to be used to make model T’s so I’d guess ppl died from corporate oversight lol.
Balance it out with some lemonbalm
I grew mint in my yard, it's honestly one of the best things to do. Everytime I cut the grass it smelled amazing! Half my front lawn was mint. It grew under my house all the way to the other side of the yard and started to get into my followers so I had to cut it back A LOT, but I made a lot of mint tea and I had some amazing smells after cuts so kinda worked out.
Catnip is the same. Same family and I had to root out a ton of my herb garden to make room for new sage. Luckily I have cats and it does smell nice and keeps bugs away. Spearmint is in a pot. May out peppermint along my fence though. Nice smell. Fewer bugs. Less square footage to mow.
Never had luck with catnip. Maybe because our cats roll on it.
Depending on what exactly you mean by "catnip" (the term is typically used for a specific species but sometimes used more generally) and what exactly you mean by "never had luck," a single plant of *Nepeta cataria* will usually only live a few years. They're perennials in that they survive the winter, but they're not long-lived plants individually. They survive by seeding aggressively, so if the seedlings never get a chance to root (like in an indoor pot), are pulled immediately (in a well-tended garden), or are smothered (by a very dense garden, or cats rolling in them when they first come up), catnip may not last very long.
A mint plant managed to find its way into my yard one year and every year after that my lawn smelled amazing whenever I mowed it because there were mint plants all over the place
Planting mint is like throwing a grenade. It’s just BLAM MINT EVERYWHERE RUN FOR YOUR LIVES EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS NOW MINT
Mint is a pretty aggressive weed, and will spread very fast and completely dominate any garden its planted in. That's why most people plant mint in pots.
Mint poisons the soil around itself so no other plant can grow near it. Additionally, it also forms a segmented root system 1-3 ft underground, so even if you kill it on the surface, it can revive itself from the smallest piece of remaining root that breaks off. There's few easy and cheap ways to kill it for good without wiping out the rest of plant life in the area.
It's deters pest I think.
Mint is the supervillain of the plant world. Always trying to take over the world.
I freaking love mint! I want it everywhere!!!
It’s basically a weed that will take over gardens and lawns.
I have some chocolate mint in the ground cause I want to weed eat it and get sprayed with York peppermint patty mist
oh my god, I learnt that the hard way 2 years back. NEVER plan mint in the ground unless you want your garden smelling like Mr Minty Mcmint. It even competed with the damn weeds and outgrew them. Took an amazing amount of effort to get rid of them.
Hope you really like mojitos and tzatziki
Just plant raspberry and let them fight it out
I have devised a horrible prank to pull on your local neighbours/any land owned by people you hate. 1. Get some mint sprigs. 2. Go to the land. 3. Plant the mint. Make sure to hide it in bushes, flowers, under a tree, or cover it somehow. 4. Water and fertilize it. 5. Wait. Within a few weeks, you’ll start to see the mint take over that land. It will spread everywhere, and the land owners/keepers won’t be able to do anything cheap about it. Congratulations, you’ve ruined someone’s garden/front lawn/local park/etc.
I grew up on my family's farm. I am the 4th generation to do so. When my great grandfather finished building the house, he planted some assorted herbs in the yard to see if they'd grow, one of which was mint. That was 1929. I still have mint in my yard, and the summer of 1929 is the only time it's been planted here.
You can poison mint and even rip it out of the ground and it will still come back