Mint

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• abbadon420@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Haha! That’s such a stupid thing to do. That’s why I’ve only planted a blackberry in my garden.

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  • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Wait…

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    • Poppa_Mo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Hahaha. You poor soul.

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  • Gerudo@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It’s ALMOST worth it for fresh Blackberries that actually taste like blackberries. Not that trash in the grocery store.

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    • Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Do those get replicated or something? Crafted from foam, glue and paint?

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  • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    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

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    • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      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.

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    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Blackberries grow in thick brambles with nasty thorns. It also has a hardy root system that allows it to regrow if you just cut it down. They also spread a few feet per year, so keeping them contained is a constant (and often painful) battle. If you go too long without paying attention to it, your entire yard will be a mess of thorny brambles that are nearly impossible to kill.

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    • prettybunnys@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      They grow as brambles and grow thick.

      It will take up any and all space it can.

      You won’t have to worry about kids playing in your yard, but they’ll be in it for berries

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    • protist@retrofed.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Make sure to try to find a thornless variety. Blackberry thorns will wreak havoc on your body and your clothes

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    • too_high_for_this@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The bramble types do. They’ll spread out a few feet every year and new plants will pop up everywhere. They’re hard to prune because of the nasty thorns, and as long as there’s roots, they’ll grow back.

      You can get a thornless variety that’s much easier to contain. I have one in my front yard that hasn’t spread at all.

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    • Speculater@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Extremely hardy, hard to kill, and spiders love them. But the fruit is delicious!

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    • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Well, good news!

      You’ll certainly have a lot of blackberries if you plant them.

      The bushes down near the river by me are about 20 feet thick and 8 feet high. The only other thing growing near them are nettles. It’s a genuinely fearsome plant.

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      yes, and they have sharp thorns, makes removal them very difficult. apparently is the himlayin blackberry is the notirous hard to kill weed.

      the himalyin blackberry is capable of regenerating from root fragments, even if you pull out the whole plant, a small part of it can regenerate.

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    • Nefara@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Are you in the US? There are a couple of native blackberries that don’t grow in brambles, but they are still quite pokey. This one basically grows as a couple of arching canes, usually on a tree line with a few others.

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    • Malyca@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      They are evil incarnate

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  • MissJinx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Oh no, I planted Bamboo trees to avoid issues

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    • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Bamboo is native to more places than people think.

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  • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Personally I love en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolvulus_arvensis, it:s flowers are so cute! The neighborhood is blooming!

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    • PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      We just bought a house last year and now are currently dealing with a garden full of bindweed and creeping bellflower. It’s fairly daunting but also kind of addicting trying to dig it all up.

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  • Signtist@bookwyr.me ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I planted a blackberry plant 2 years ago, and it’s grown maybe a couple inches since I planted it. I’m annoyed - I wanted blackberries! The raspberries took off, so that’s nice. I just planted them all in the yard so I can mow down any that grow where I won’t want them.

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  • CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Bamboo looks way better than blackberry, I made sure to plant a ton of it in various parts of my yard.

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    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The funny part is that clumping bamboo actually makes a great privacy hedge. It’s leafy, grows in thick bunches, very quickly hits like 10-20 feet tall (depending on the variety), and doesn’t rapidly spread. So it can be a great option for people looking for a perimeter hedge or property divider.

      The tricky part is that most bamboo isn’t clumping. Most is running bamboo, which rapidly spreads, doesn’t grow very tall, and will break past basically every barrier (like sidewalks and landscaping stonework) that most other plants would be stopped by. It’s also extremely difficult to kill, because it stores nutrients in the (extremely wide) root system. So even if you cut it down, it’ll just grow right back again somewhere else.

      And plenty of people have accidentally planted running bamboo, thinking it was clumping bamboo.

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  • Nangijala@feddit.dk ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Demonic thing to say 😭

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  • Mpatch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Throw some blueberry, strawberry plants in there too

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• mimic_kry@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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  I have no idea what I’m doing

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  • Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Well they’re not dead so you’re already doing better than me.

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    • mimic_kry@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yet.

      They’re not dead yet.

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  • robocall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I don’t understand why people act like having a lawn of mint is worse than grass. Seems like it requires less maintenance.

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    • binux@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      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.

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    • Leviathan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I planted mint in my yard for this exact reason. I hate grass lawns. However local flowers are probably better for local pollinator and bird populations, so I might add those too.

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  • LetThereBeNick@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    You are closed in on three sides. This is a good spot for mint. I recommend putting 30cm/1ft of woodchips/mulch as a barrier to keep it all in.

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    • Redfox8@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I can tell you that 30cm of woodchip will do sod all to stop it. My mint grows under 50cm of concrete. It takes a couple of years to get there, but it does!

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• SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  fun fact: if you plant oragano next to mint, it will take on a minty flavor.

  the tomato mozarella salad I made was… interesting

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  • kinkles@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That’s so cool

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    • DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Crystal cool - Holly

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  • too_high_for_this@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    A similar thing happens with fennel and dill. The result is something that tastes like a weaker mix of both and the fennel doesn’t grow a bulb.

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  • Gust@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Peppers and tomatoes can do this too. I used to grow tomatoes and habaneros in the same raised garden bed, and the tomatoes always came out with quite the kick

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Define close please. Also mint please I got a nice lemon balm patch right next to some Greek oregano I bought because why not. The rest of my oregano lives in the bee alley.

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    • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Touching distance, basically

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• Sunforged@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Explain yourself right this instant young man!

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  • ranzispa@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Unless all you want to harvest is mint, it’s not a good idea to plant mint in the ground. It takes over the whole field.

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    • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I was promised this when I planted mint in ground atbmy old house, and sure enough, the mint took hold. Alas, my insatiable appetite for mojitos was too much demand for the mint to sustain and I eradiacted it through overharvesting.

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    • kinkles@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      This was me as a novice gardener many years ago.

      Wow this grows really well!

      …

      Okay, I’m going to trim this back now.

      …

      Why the hell is there mint over there now

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    • expatriado@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      would be the best smelling field tho

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    • saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Oooh. I knew this but for some reason my brain went from “Th ground? Like soil?” to “if I’m not supposed to grow it in a pot of soil, am I meant to grow it on some sort of trellis setup?”

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    • nomecks@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      That’s why I only plant horseradish!

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  • belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Mint grows as hard as grass and weeds. Once you plant mint all you have is more mint

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    • prettybunnys@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Mint grows better than grass, as it’s well suited for the environments most people try to grow grass. Which are environments not well suited for it.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Well I copied the yard we already had, but I let the mint run wild. Also I think the racing stripes I added here and here look pretty sharp.

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• 4grams@awful.systems ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  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.

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  • RamenDame@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    If you bought a supermarket pot you need to separate it and put it into a bigger pot. Otherwise it will cannibalise itself.

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    • namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      In fairness, if I were made of mint, I would also cannibalise myself.

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    • 4grams@awful.systems ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Already done. It was actually a freebie supermarket plant my son picked up. The local store has a section where the ugly and dying plants are free. So we picked up a chocolate mint, and are trying to bring it back to life.

      I had it nearly there, so I gently moved it to a bigger pot, with fresh new soil, and it promptly died. There was one single stem that was left that had gotten buried when I replanted it. Everything behind it died, but it must be trying to put some roots down at a buried node or something. It was floppy and I thought dead, but then decided to come back to life and is growing new leaves. Fingers crossed, I’m too afraid to touch them t right now, so I’m just keeping it watered and sunny and hoping it comes back.

      I can always go get some from the yard :).

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• I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  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!

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  • lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    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.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I’m thinking I let some clover run wild because the hoa board will shit their non-hoa approved shit receptacles.

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    • potpotato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Roses suck. Also, no.

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• phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  So I’m. Gardener who doesn’t know. What is it that i should know?

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  • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Mint is extremely hardy, isn’t picky about soil type, spreads quickly, 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 a 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.

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  • sness@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    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.

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  • zeroConnection@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Not a gardener, but I’ve seen people say it grows like a weed and we should plant some in mars

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  • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    If it likes your climate it’ll spread fast and be hard to keep in check because it spreads underground

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  • Bakkoda@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    We have minimal grass in our backyard. Whoever owned the property before us loved mint lol

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• TheSlad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’ll plant it next to my invasive english ivy and see which one wins…

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  • W3dd1e@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    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.

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  • how_we_burned@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’ve got privit, onion weed, rust weed and bamboo all fighting it out in gladiatoral combat

    And winners reward will be acid, 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

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  • AbidingOhmsLaw@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Don’t forget the Lilly of the vally, 3 way cage match ( or uncaged in this case )

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  • bluesheep@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If you’re in America throw some kudzu in there for some extra spice

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• Zoomboingding@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  This bamboo grove is really taking off!

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  • Nangijala@feddit.dk ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This is a sadness for me, because I really want bamboo I’m my garden, but am hesitant to go through with it for obvious reasons. Almost all the plants I love grow like weeds to the point of it no longer being charming 😭

    We planted native honeysuckle as a hedge instead. They grow like weeds too, but at least they will smell nice all the way through summer and autumn, so eh.

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• webkitten@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  “Hey guys my new mint plant is growing well in the ground”

  “That’s cool I use arch btw”

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• alzymologist@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Tried planting mint for several years in a row - seeds, transplants, nursery plants (yes those exist). All died. Finland is a harsh place.

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• BierSoggyBeard@feddit.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  See also horseradish, amaranth, native sunflowers, and in my case, tomatoes.

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• Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  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.

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• Redfox8@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I really don’t know what you’re all getting into a tizz about?! Grows just fine for me ;)

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• philipp_@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  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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• chris@l.roofo.cc ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I had mint on my balcony. This spring I saw mint grow around the corner. In my doormat!

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• Blackfeathr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Glad y’all warned me about mint! I’ll just plant some nice snow-on-the-mountain in a small little patch over here.

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• Etterra@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  NGL, I’d rather have a lawn of mint than of grass.

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• Ferrous@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  My neighbors mint spread to an area of my driveway that is comprised of (from bottom to top) weed barrier, 8 inches of CA6, and 2 inches of river rock.

  Needless to say, we’ve been finding excuses to make as many mojitos as possible.

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• hDGGgrLpg8nEucjxWnJz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Not a gardener but I definitely don’t know

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• BigBenis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Somebody planted mint in one of my raised beds before I lived here and it’s a constant battle to keep it at bay. At least I get refreshing mint tea out of the 20% of it I harvest.

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• PieMePlenty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Its not a weed if its useful. It may just be a little “unwanted at the moment”.

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• Nangijala@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  That’s why I planted mine in a plant box instead of in tue garden directly.

  I used to have them in plant boxes on the balcony when we lived in a ghetto in a bigger city and the only reason they ended up eventually dying after a reign of Terror in every single plant box on my balcony for a couple years, was because I got depression and forgot to water them during a particularly toasty summer. We are talking three months on scorching heat and no water before they finally admitted defeat.

  There is no plant I fear and respect more than mint.

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• Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Mint is a keter-class SCP, don’t let it escape containment

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• LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Sumac (Rhus) has entered the chat

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• rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Seems like this really depends on the local climate, or maybe we just don’t the right type of mint here. All the actual weeds (i.e. plants that we don’t want to grow) seem to shake down mint for its lunch money.

  A garden full of mint would be julep heaven!

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• the_mighty_kracken@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I have a patch of raspberries that’s been slowly traveling around my house for the last ten years.

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• imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Got to know a gardener lady who lives far outside of the city. She usually gives me dried mint for a tea since she has it abundant. That is how I know.

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• anon_8675309@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I asked AI and I still don’t understand; what’s this got to do with making tons of money?

  /s

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• drone678@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I planted Reynoutria japonica to get rid of my mint plants. I did not go to plan.

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