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.
I once bought fish mint at an asian grocery store thinking it was regular mint, and it was quite the surprise when I tried it.
That must have been quite the shock.
Your own private morsel of the sea.
But fish mint is delicious.
Wash the roots and snap them into little bits, toss them up with some diced onion and chili oil.
The leaves go great in salad.
I’ve tried it. Just not my thing. The taste is ok but I can’t handle the aroma.
That’s what that shit is? I though it was some generic weed I had a hard time getting rid of. Great. Another invasive to deal with. Just killed a tree of heaven the other day, too.
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!
Catnip too?
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. 🤷
Why are my neighbors mad? They have all the mint they could want now.
Exactly: neighbors can stay mad. Mint is cooler than neighbors arguably (& chemically).
Not to mention that mosquitos hate mint.
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.
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.
Mint
plantfield.FTFY
It’s over there, next to my horseradish.
When we bought our house 2 years ago, the previous owners had planted mint in the ground, despite having a raised garden bad. My wife and I spent an entire afternoon taking back mulch and digging to remove the mint. We built a 2nd garden box and put it over the top of the mint spot, but I’m already seeing bits of mint poking up from under the box…
Why don’t you just…eat it?
It strangles the other plants. And the underground root growth means it’s really hard to get rid of after it breaks containment.
Yep! It also spreads like a weed.
What are your other plants?
Personally? Gravel, tar, some cancerous chemicals holding the two together…
Wait then why not just let the mint grow?
I think there’s been a misunderstanding. I don’t have anywhere to grow anything unless it’s in pots. I’m talking about mint generally, and why people don’t like it growing in ground versus in pots.
We did it like 15 years ago, it took years to finally get rid of it…
I don’t see the problem. Mint is delicious
“ When we bought our house 2 years ago, the previous owners had planted mint in the ground, despite having a raised garden bad. My wife and I spent an entire afternoon taking back mulch and digging to remove the mint. We built a 2nd garden box and put it over the top of the mint spot, but I’m already seeing bits of mint poking up from under the box…”
That’sthe comment beneath ypurs and it explains the problem
I planted Achillea, by the way.
It’s gonna smell really nice when you mow your mint lawn.
I have a couple patches of apple mint in my yard, which doesn’t seem to spread much. It legitimately does smell amazing while I’m mowing and has always grown back by the next time I mow.
The dryer at my parents house vented into a mess of mint. Laundry made the backyard smell great.
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.
The problem is not that it spreads. It is that it then suffocates other plants that can’t handle staying near it.
Of course having the ecological wasteland of lawns isn’t good either. You want to create the conditions for a balance habitat to establish. Mint can be an obstacle to this and be detrimental to the biodiversity in your garden, if left unchecked.
Mint, not even once.
What if I want a lawn full of mint
Maybe your neighbours don’t? 😄
My neighbors can mind their own business
Can mint* their own business
Not after it spread to their yard
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It’s a plant. It grows naturally too. Ain’t nobody removing all the mint from forests and such.
Mint doesn’t choke forests, but it will invade any smaller species.
Yeah but wouldn’t it naturally pass from the forest to the adjacent gardens if it can pass from garden to garden?
I grew up 200 meters from the edge of the forest. I’m used to mom just finding random new plants she didn’t even know she wanted. These would also pass to neighbours and obviously we got some from neighbours as well.
Mint is cool because you can use it to make herbal tea n stuff
Fuck them, I should be able to grow corn on my front lawn if I so desire.
Corn doesn’t spread like literal wildfire, Mint does.
Corn doesn’t have the same negative externalities that an entire field of an invasive plant like mint would.
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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