Haha! That's such a stupid thing to do. That's why I've only planted a blackberry in my garden.
It's ALMOST worth it for fresh Blackberries that actually taste like blackberries. Not that trash in the grocery store.
Wait, do blackberries also grow like weeds? I've never had much interest in gardening, but like the one plant I'd genuinely like to have, due to loving the fruit, would be blackberry
Blackberry is evil.
If it is not native to your country don't plant it! Nothing eats it, grows extremely quickly and is very hard to get rid of.
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.
Well they're not dead so you're already doing better than me.
Yet.
They're not dead yet.
"Hey guys my new mint plant is growing well in the ground"
"That's cool I use arch btw"
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.
If you bought a supermarket pot you need to separate it and put it into a bigger pot. Otherwise it will cannibalise itself.
In fairness, if I were made of mint, I would also cannibalise myself.
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!
It’s going to cover up all my regular grass that I can’t do shit with and benefits no one!
If it only replaced regular grass, it would be fine. Problem is, it'll choke everything in its path, including parsley and roses aaand I hope you won't miss that chamomile patch, because it's now mint.
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
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
I really don't know what you're all getting into a tizz about?! Grows just fine for me ;)
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.
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
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.
I had mint on my balcony. This spring I saw mint grow around the corner. In my doormat!
Glad y'all warned me about mint! I'll just plant some nice snow-on-the-mountain in a small little patch over here.
Me to weeds in other pots: "Die! You are taking away nutrients and water from my precious plants!
Me to weeds in the mint pot: "You poor things! You are going to suffer."
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