Mint is fine grass is the devil.
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I did this once. Only way to get rid of it was to sell my house.
Tenants take note, give your landlord a lovely gift of established ground mint when you leave your rental!
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!
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?
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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. 🤷
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.
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.
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.
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
Why are my neighbors mad? They have all the mint they could want now.
Not to mention that mosquitos hate mint.
Exactly: neighbors can stay mad. Mint is cooler than neighbors arguably (& chemically).
I planted mint in a pot. And the roots went out of the bottom of the pot and between the tiles the pot was on, into the ground.
Meanwhile kudzu is over here like.. what trees?
I've read that kudzu is nutritious, comparable with potatoes, and is cultivated in China.
My dad used to cook it when I was a kid. Tastes like butterbeans.
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Goats.
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One time I did that, and was horrified to see that the next day the gardner removed it and disposed of the body.
It was my baby and it was literally choking itself in every pot I planted it because it would just grow until the entire pot was roots.
I now know that it had to be done, this is what it means to be an adult. To know that sometimes murdering a baby mint is for the greater good T_T
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Maybe plant some bamboo to help it
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.
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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
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Also catnip, but with catnip there's a 50% chance neighborhood cats will show up and roll on it until it dies.
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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.
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.
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Also ivy. A curse on whoever first brought English ivy to the Americas.
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Mint
Mint everywhere.
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.
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