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• FoxyFerengi@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The plants are nigh impossible to control or remove. They’re like mint; only plant it in the ground if you hate yourself and your neighbors :)

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Thanks, I know what I’m planting!

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  • Rose_Thorne@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Mint doesn’t need to be put in the ground. Just put it in a pot outside, it’ll do the rest, and leave you with some level of plausible deniability.

    I know this because my ex got some different types of mint to grow, since we both loved it. She put them in pots on the front porch, about 4 feet off the ground.

    That mint found its way to the lawn. We still don’t know where it started from, just that the pot was flourishing, and then so was the yard. The new owner of that house is still finding mint growing in random parts.

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Also mint is native in some places it’s like that.

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Is mint bad for yards? A fully mint lawn sounds incredible.

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      • Rose_Thorne@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It can choke out native plant life, if left to do its thing. It is an invasive species for non-native areas, and that can even come down to what type of mint is native.

        The main issues are that mint doesn’t have a lot of requirements to grow, and is notoriously hard to kill. If it’s in a place it can survive, it can and will thrive left unchecked.

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    • prettybunnys@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That mint found its way to the lawn. We still don’t know where it started from

      Seeds. Plus mint creeps, but definitely seeds too.

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  • PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I know the Himalayan blackberry and they are awful to have on your property. Each year all too much time is diverted towards controlling it and attempting to eliminate it. The birds (if they exist) eat them and spread the seeds. They pop up where you thought you’d already handled them. Ug.

    We do collect them to make cobblers and such, but I would gladly do without that if I could rid us of them entirely.

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    • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water

      After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water

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  • partofthevoice@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Bamboo as well.

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    • FoxyFerengi@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Oh man. My mother was a huge fan of landscaping with invasive species. This is also a place that has had a lot of local plants absolutely smothered by kudzu vine. Bamboo was going in right as I was moving to another state. Maybe it was a good idea to cut contract with her, I can’t imagine it’s been cheap or easy to maintain

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      • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Perpetual work. Sounds like a viable business strategy.

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      • ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Bamboo is fine. Just dont plant too much, and cut it back. You’ll never pay for stakes or sticks again.

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  • Carrot@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    My neighbors planted blackberries on their side of the property line. It takes a good few days each year for me to cut them back off my side. Please, if you want blackberries, plant them in their own little zone, and be mindful of how they can spread

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  • moobythegoldensock@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Mint’s great.

    My wife and I discovered some spearmint growing right by our house. So we just mow it into a patch and mulch around it: free mint and the bees love it! Fresh mojitos every summer lol.

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  • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Mint is “ok”.

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• orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They’re a highly invasive species here in Washington state. Brought by settlers. They’ve displaced the native species and are nearly impossible to get rid of.

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  • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Just like the settlers!

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    • prettybunnys@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      But not nearly as delicious

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      • oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Depends who you ask.

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  • QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    i mean… i can do something to help, might not effect the long term though 😋

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    • alekwithak@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      On the contrary, I overpicked and killed a blackberry plant as a kid. Sounds like a solid tactic.

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• Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Himelayan blackberries are invasive

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  • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Not if you live in the Himalaya ☝️🤓

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    • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Let’s bring this plant home from the other side of the world from the edges of human atmosphere and plant it back home. It will probably be nice to look at.

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      • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I mean if that’s its origin, it probably still lives there unless the name is not its place of origin

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• TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Certain blackberries are deeply irritating invasive species. Delicious, but an outright menace that can destroy local forests. Methods to control them are extensive and extreme. Never eat road side blackberries in the US, certain states use herbicide to stem the tide. Bushes next to highways are more likely to be sprayed. Low pedestrian traffic and cheaper maintenance than cutting them back.

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• frosch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  … You ever tried clearing a yard or whole garden overgrown by wild blackberries for years?

  God, they’re delicious, but they are EVERYWHERE, regrow as soon as you turn around, and you either are very slow and careful or get hurt a lot. Nasty little suckers, those thorns.

  I’d guess OP has the same trauma as me

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Got a few growing in my front garden, just cut the sections of thorns from time to time. Dunno what else to do with such a tiny garden really. Nature does its thing there.

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• ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Look past their juicy and delicious flesh comrade! invasive species are the scourge of many a backyard garden

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Some of us live in countries that have native blackberries.

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• tomiant@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Blackberries are “ok”.

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