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. 🤷
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.
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.
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.
I obviously don’t know… :(
Edit: Thanks for the answers - now I know! Where I live it doesn’t spread that easily, and often when it’s growing well it disappears overnight or in a matter of days thanks to caterpillars or grasshoppers. I didn’t know it would grow out of control in other places.
Once it gets going … it’s hard to get rid of
I’m not 100% sure, but I think it’s weed.
Weeds don’t actually exist. It’s just a term we invented for plants we don’t like.
People who say this have never battled goat head burr, burr clover or bristly ox tongue. Invasive as shit, crowd out threatened species and necessary natives for plant-specific pollinators, poke through your shoes and bike tires and generally run your day.
“A weed is a plant considered undesirable in a particular situation, growing where it conflicts with human preferences, needs, or goals” - Wikipedia
“Taxonomically the term “weed” has no botanical significance” - Wikipedia
Ok…? I really don’t get this “I love all plants equally, peace on earth, bro” messaging that pops up any time someone mentions a highly invasive plant.
Some plants, in the wrong spaces, are highly damaging to wildlife on many levels. It’s not just about wanting a monocultured lawn and having been tricked by Monsanto propaganda.
I think you got me wrong. What made you think I like invasive plants? I’m aware they’re an ecological disaster. The term weed just pisses me off. People spray chemicals on their lawns to kill off native plants because they’re “weeds”. Fuck grass and fuck invasive plants (like grass). I can think of quite a few plants I hate and would like eraticated from North America actually.
It’s not weed, it’s that mint is very aggressive in spreading.
I personally like the mint growing in the yard it makes mowing the lawn smell great.
Oh, so it’s not weed, but it’s a weed.
Not weed if you can make mojitos with it
It can still be a weed if you can’t make enough mojitos to keep up with the growth.
Challenge accepted
Are we talking Weed Mojitos? M’confusted?
Weed as a classification is bullshit anyway. Iirc, it’s whatever broad-leaf plants got killed by roundup, Monsanto declared ‘weeds’.
Clover used to be a common part of American lawns
A weed is something you don’t want to grow right there. It just means undesired plant life and changes on a whim.
Monsanto tried to categorize clover as weeds in their advertising because the plant killer that was used to kill broadleaf plants that interfere with grass lawns also kills clover. They demonized clover because it was collateral damage!
That’s why I’m doing my part to help it take over :)
My parents outsource their Lawncare to me, and I have been taking the huge patch of clover near a corn field and transplanting it around their yard. Just cutting a shovel ful of dirt out and swapping them, and watering the area.
No idea if it’ll work the way I want it to, but I guess I’ll see if it spreads this summer.
I’d love to go to my in-laws and use a big seed spreader to throw clover and other native plants around, but that would just lead to them killing it all and hiring a lawn company to replant Kentucky bluegrass or something lame like that.
Clover is pretty hardy and in my experience doesn’t even fight the grass aince they thrive on different nutrients or something like that.
The bur seed clover in my lawn, shits a nightmare to deal with. Dogs get the seeds in every inch of fur, spread it around the lawn and hack them up when grooming themselves.
It’s mostly under control after a few years of tackling it.
I’d love another variant to replace the horrible one I’ve got.
Ok, that sounds like it sucks.
But that isn’t the clover we are talking about when we say clover is awesome. White clover is generally what people are referring to when they are talking about lawns and landscaping.
Red clover is native to the west coast, it’s edible, makes a good incense apparently, and it looks rather handsome imo.
I keep telling people to let clover grow, and half the stuff that’s supposedly bad for their lawn is actually good for a healthy patch of dirt but someone invented a problem so they could sell the solution.
I’ve actually had landscaping people knock on my door and explain that half my lawn is weeds and they can take care of it for me on a 6 month contract or whatever bs…
Like Bruh my lawn is carefully cultivated to grow all natural native plants, specifically with the intent of boosting local insect and pollinator activity, there’s a reason this half-are is the only place you see butterflies.
I’m not about to let some punk in headphones and a “Lastname Lawncare” t-shirt flatten all of this to 1/2in of plain green uniform grass. That’s boring as shit. And bad for the environment. And boring. as. shit.
Let’s fucking go!
Dam dog you got a bio lawn of local fauna and flora?
This guy knows how to progress.
Prograss
Look at Mr. Green Thumbs over here!
Seriously though I’m just jealous you have a yard to do this in.
It’s not owned by me, but it’s tended by me for now. I also am tending to my parents yard this summer, and trying to transplant clover around their yard. Sofar the patches are still green but it’s not quite growing time yet to see how well it’ll take hold.
Oh thank God I was worried there was some meme about an incel jacking off on it I didn’t know about
that’s not a meme. that’s all they do.
I grow my mint along the side of the house where the HVAC condensation runs out! It helps with the whole area just being a giant muddy mess since it is also on the shady side of the house.
herbs are just weeds that taste and/or smell good.
It is classified in my state as a weed
Mint is fine grass is the devil.
Mint
Mint everywhere.
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.
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.
This comment is a poem
Pair it with raspberries
Just put them in raised beds and then mow right up to that bitch, they wont make it out.
I’ve seen it grow low. Like thyme.
Fuck mint, I spend months trying to get rid of it from my last place
We put a few mint plants in a large concrete planter and it filled the whole planter in one season. It does keep mice, cats, and mosquitos away.
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
Well obviously you don’t let it get that bad
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 have the same negative externalities that an entire field of an invasive plant like mint would.
Corn doesn’t spread like literal wildfire, Mint does.
Depends on where you live. Mint does have limits. It really dislikes dry and cold. We’ve planted it several times here and it’s quite difficult to keep it alive. Our growing season is quite short so it’s a bit depressing to have it die so quickly.
There is a reason why I planted my piperita in a pot, far off the ground.
I planted Achillea, by the way.
Tldr Mint is invasive.
How do you know I don’t live in western and central Asia, east to the Himalaya and eastern Siberia, where we all know mint is native!?
That’s why I installed Arch instead!
Random thought:
What if people who post in internet comments claiming to use Arch are actually just one person who’s a barely contained SCP?
Is his name Linus?
Archus, mirror universe Linus.
Does Linus use arch?
No
Fedora I believe
I hate you. TAKE MY UPVOTE. You SUDO’D ME TO UPVOTE YOU!
Not sure what you are talking about exactly. I’m stating this from the perspective of a gardener and forager.
I’m not sure what I’m talking about, either. Just a dumb joke.
It’s ok though, all the invasive grass people plant on purpose here out grows it and kills it like everything else.
Fuck lawns.
I don’t want to eat the grass though.
you could eat the mint
Exactly.
Maybe plant some bamboo to help it
Strawberries too. If you don’t plant them in containers you’re gonna have a bad time.
The previous owners of my house did this and I’m so thankful. Wild strawberries where I live slowly replace the grass and never grows very tall so this means I don’t have to mow nearly as often.
I could never get them grow tho
I’ve got strawberries growing freely in my yard. I don’t see a problem. It stays pretty low to the ground and doesn’t out-compete everything like mint does.
I’ve tried to plant strawberries and they just get smothered by other weeds.
or a good time…
I thought I finally killed mine but after about a year it’s back again
I have some kudzu i could sell you
I wonder what happens if you plant kudzu and bamboo in the same spot, endlessly climbing plant tower?
The solution to the space elevator was sitting there the whole time.
BET YOU WANT TO SELL ME LOW GRADE COPPER INGOTS TOO Ea-nāṣir
No, my friend, only the highest grade copper! And for you, special price too!
Cu must be kidding me!
And some blackberry, too! We could have blackberry mojitos made with bamboo muddlers.
Tbf it would be an awesome garden with endless blackberry and mint! can even smell.it
Now that you mention it, I wouldn’t mind living in that environment.
Evil.
bamboo is the most evil of all of them for sure lol
