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?
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.
Strawberries too. If you don’t plant them in containers you’re gonna have a bad time.
I could never get them grow tho
or a good time…
Evil.
bamboo is the most evil of all of them for sure lol
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
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.
Huh, I didn’t know that. Neat.
Goats.
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.
Your own private morsel of the sea.
That’s what that shit is? I though it was some generic weed I had a hard time getting rid of. Great. Another invasive to deal with. Just killed a tree of heaven the other day, too.
I once bought fish mint at an asian grocery store thinking it was regular mint, and it was quite the surprise when I tried it.
That must have been quite the shock.
It’s gonna smell really nice when you mow your mint lawn.
The dryer at my parents house vented into a mess of mint. Laundry made the backyard smell great.
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!
Our soil is almost entirely clay and rock to the point that most grasses also fail to grow. I wouldn’t mind something nice like mint or another invasive plant if it meant actually having something grow at all…
It takes very little top soil for most grasses and sedges to thrive
-on clay
Well, “thrive” might be overstating it because they’ll be much more susceptible to drought with shallow roots.
ENJOY THE MINT EVERYONE
Maybe add some white cover, some comfrey, sunchoke, raspberries, and you’ve got a permaculture paradise!
You expect them to survive in a mint-infested ground?
I planted some mint in a large pot, at an off-grid shack on a New England beach… two decades ago. That shit is still thriving to this day, despite zero maintenance and/or care and numerous harsh winters!
Everytime I now the grass it smells minty!
So we moved.
There is a reason why I planted my piperita in a pot, far off the ground.
laughs in Bermuda grass
source: gardener
What if I want a lawn full of mint
Maybe your neighbours don’t? 😄
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.
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!
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.
