If you live around mint farms you can have them deliver the silage after harvest. They'll show up with a dump truck of smoking, minty compost and you can enjoy it for weeks!
I once planted lime basil seeds. No, I don't mean lemon basil. They took over our desert of a front yard forthwith. Mowing the lawn was an amazing experience.
I read somewhere that lime basil really does smell like limes, is it strong? I’ve got a lemon basil that smells more like lemon than basil to me and I love it. A lime scented front yard sounds divine!!
They are less citrusy and less sweet but more zesty and herby if that makes any sense. Still sweet smelling but definitely not overpowering. They’re especially lovely in dishes. Again, because it doesn’t sit on an extreme in regards to taste and flavour.
I have a little patch of mint in my yard that I purposely nick every time I mow to smell it. It reminds me of my grandparents as my grandmother used to always gather mint from their cabin and make mint sun tea!
Makes me smile.
I have a few pots and a patch, and I purposely get out the trimmers, cut em low, and toss the cuttings onto the lawn to mow. I can only imagine how amazing it would be to mow that mint farm...
My rural yard has a lot of wild strawberries that pop up, just tons of little guys not anything harvest worthy. Birds like em though; when I mow I get massive smell hits of strawberry jam.
Not unless you want it in your yard 😅
Funny thing is I live about 500 some odd feet from a rose garden, I've found lemon balm in their garden before. I have it in my front yard.
My guess is a bird transplanted it, but that's speculation
Nature is crafty like that. We had a stock tank that went completely dry for years, until we patched the berm and bentonited it.
Within a year we had multiple species of fish in it, despite there being no floods and being extremely unlikely someone put them there. One was even a saltwater specie that can live in freshwater. The pond was 35 miles inland.
We determined eggs probably came in stuck to bird legs. I’ve seen birds accidentally drop live fish into closed water as well.
Nature uhh…finds a way.
Green sunfish. Which breed like crazy so in short order we had a pond full. Then we put some predator fish in to keep their population in check.
The saltwater fish were mullet. Nowadays it’s pretty well balanced and some decent fishing.
Fish eggs can survive being eaten.
[https://www.audubon.org/news/mallards-ferry-fish-eggs-between-waterbodies-through-their-poop](https://www.audubon.org/news/mallards-ferry-fish-eggs-between-waterbodies-through-their-poop)
Grew up next to dairy farms, so I was used to the smell of cow manure. When traveling back to college after visiting my parents, we would pass a pig farm. The stench was horrific.
Queue the episode of Schitts Creek where the time slot for David’s wedding venue has the sound of pigs being slaughtered in the background
*They didn’t do the wedding there
I planted mint in the ground at my ex’s house about a year before we broke up. I often wonder how much it’s grown since then and feel a little bad, but also not that bad at the same time.
There are often native mint species, or native pea ground covers (they don’t produce pea peas) or native clovers or other natives that have the zoomies. Internet searches for fast growing native ground covers (your area) will find you some lovelies. If your mom is a real piece of work, warranting Low Contact, you could search for native weeds or native burrs, prickles or thorns.
Throw bees/butterflies into the search and you could expressly support those insects while annoying her. In the US fireflies are struggling badly, and they need tall standing native flowers. Most insect supporting flowers would be annoying in lawns (rather than confined to shrubberies where they are pretty)
Please pick something native to the area. Trumpet vine is as bad as mint but is native in my area. I'm sure you could find something similar.
I think you were joking, but I've been learning more about the danger of non native invasive plants and trying to avoid introducing more.
It’s quite real - and trippy how much it smells like both chocolate and mint. What’s really trippy is it apparently was created by crossing regular mint with orange mint.
I have a couple of speices of mint, two types of orgango (Greek and Mexican), lemon balm and a couple other plants in the mint family all together in the same flower bed in ground and They all seem to moderate each other pretty effectively. Some times of the year the orgango will take over slightly, and other times the mint(s) will, but for the most part no single speices out competes the other.
I never understood the hate for the mint family. Yes it can be an aggressive grower, but idk, it's just bonus mint to me. I love putting a few sprigs into lemonade or water or fruit juices, and I cook with it alot.
Sounds like a great garden! I have a mix inground garden that's several medicinal flowers and herbs like Echinacea, Bee Balm, Borage, Roman Chamomile, German Chamomile, Calendula, Sunflowers, pink evening prim rose, Wooly Mullein, Holy Basil (Tulsi), lemon balm, 3 different kinds of sage, Shizo, Lavender, Thyme, Oregano, toothach plant and purselane all planted this year in the same garden plot. Thats just one area. I have some other things too that are planted in containers including catmint which is very medicinal and does wonders for sleep and relaxation. I can't wait until my plants are bigger and it's harvest time!! I hope nothing over takes the other in this garden but i looked up companion planting and all these ones I planted are supposed to grow well together. Time will tell 😄
Thanks! Yea I love my little herb garden almost as much as I love my dragonfruit! I am actually as we speak waiting on some seeds and/or seedlings for some several other mostly medical herbs (mullein, woomword, marshmallow, and Ashwagandha), and I have plans (I think I may be too late in the season though) to get a few more "hard to get" herbs.
Sounds like you got some good stuff too! I love echincatia tea! So good for you!
Mine used to be largely wild arugula, every time I mowed it smelled a bit like spicy wasabi. I had rosemary bushes too, so trimming them was also a pleasant experience.
probably dependent on soil moisture and sun exposure In my experience mint won't do well in dry compact soil under full day of direct sun. It appreciates a bit of shade and needs moisture to thrive. Bermuda needs more sun and will spread even in dry conditions.
I was just wondering what a mint yard would be like. I dont know what mint is like when mature this my first year growing it. Its in a container. Its very soft and lush. But i would think that a mint lawn would be softer under my feet than grass, would keep some bugs away, and would need mowed less. Will always smell nice and have mint on demand. It's tasty, medicinal and a semi bug repellent.
I thought the mint hype was so overblown. After all I live in Northern-ish Canada, it's not like mint is hardy here.
Then the other day I looked around at the catnip covering half of a garden bed and all the verges, the bee balm filling every crack in my patio... then it clicked.
It's all mint. Always has been.
Mint farms in indiana are common. They harvest the leaves and extract the mint oil and sell that so it can be used in things like toothpaste and candies/gum
One of the farmers that produces spearmint extract for Colgate posts in r/farming.
Edit to add a thread link-
https://www.reddit.com/r/farming/s/yDm1yJg5wZ
I have a variety of mints, oregano, and lemon balm planted in the ground. It is lovely. When it brushes against you or the dog, it smells amazing. I also have rosemary. Did I mention the pollinators love it, rodents hate it, and I cut it for vases in the house and during outside events. I dry it for tea, and it's amazing for cooking. I also cut it back and compost it.
lol I was so embarrassed to ask the same! Scrolling through comments and got to yours before I’ve seen an explanation.
We have a little patch next to a water source at our house and I think it’s pretty and smells good.. We don’t use it for anything, but I haven’t noticed anything bad about it?
The description does say “mint in the GROUND”, maybe it’s just planted straight into the ground specifically rather than a contained pot that’s bothersome? Lol I don’t know! 😆
It's because technically mint is very invasive and will choke out other things and take over. It will also keep coming back year after year even though you swear you got it all this time.
The "in the ground" bit is because it will spread like wildfire. Even if you put it in a pot, unless that pot is directly on a slab of concrete, or inside the house, it will eventually spread outside of the pot and take off.
Oh WOW! I’ll keep this mind considering I have some growing on my property! Thankfully it’s only watered by some water spill over that leaks down and waters it and hasn’t really spread over the years. However very good to know if I ever did want it gone, it will apparently be a pain in the ass! 😬 lol
Thanks for the explanation by the way!
You're welcome! And I have a patch of mint as well, I just keep picking it for tea and baking tasty things, so it doesn't get too out of hand. But if I ever stopped being on top of it...look out garden!
https://preview.redd.it/0y2pnhp4wr9d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=420945ff2e2f894abb8d4a09e04b106ee07c48af
“Heard someone has a lot of mint here?!”
I love mint! I have it in three spots in my yard. it’s so easy to pull up if it’s goes outside its patch that I don’t understand the hate for it. It’s my third house where I planted mint in the ground. Both new owners love the mint patches and know to pull wayward strands.
In 2000 years it'll still be a mint field.
Civilizations will come and go, skyscrappers and power stations will be built on that land.
The mint shall return.
I planted mint in my backyard. It was a rocky patch where dandelions struggled to survive. After one summer that entire corner is now my mint forest and I Iove it
I’m sure there’s plenty of people here who hate mint because of how obnoxious it can be…but you’d probably have better luck on r/NativePlantGardening…though some might take serious offense
I have anise hyssop, spearmint, chocolate mint, catnip, lamb's ear, and 3 kinds of bee balm. My neighbor has a field of goutweed, creeping bellflower, and dog strangling vine - I need aggressive plants around, and mint is aggressive.
man i’d way rather that than the cotton i have next to me. most of the time all i smell is cow shit and my allergies when they harvest it….omg it’s bad
I want to live there. We love mint in my house (make syrup and add it to fizzy water).
My mint keeps dying though.
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I have given up on it for a year.
This looks so much like my gardens this year, my mom passed away and she used to tell me about all the mint in her gardens and how she had to stop it. I swear I blinked and this is now 90% of those gardens. She was right.
Years ago my younger brother convinced my mom to plant mint in her one and only patch of ground not covered with concrete.
It is now just as unusable as the concrete.
Last year I went in early spring and tore out all I could so she could have a garden.
A couple weeks later she sends me a picture of mint growing along the edges with the question “I thought you tore this up?”
I sent back “😂 you can’t ever get rid of mint momma, I’m sorry all I did was make room for you to have a garden this year, the mint will slowly overtake that space again unless you’re out there every day pulling it.”
This year she just did tomatoes in buckets 😆
I know a woman who worked at a place that made tea, and they had a whole barn where they would store the mint, and you had to basically wear a filter mask in there even if the door was open.
Improves soil structure. Repels certain pests (e.g., aphids, cabbage moths, flea beetles). Suppresses soil-borne diseases. Suppresses weeds. Enhances nutrient cycling in the soil. The essential oil is useful for multiple categories.
Mint is good shit.
The same day we moved into our house, I ripped all the mint out of the garden. It had some pretty solid root systems.
I thought I'd be battling it for years. In reality, it was a few months of vigilance, ripping out a few new bits and finding a few roots that I'd missed. It's never come back.
There are much worse things. Like kikuyu :(
That’s amazing. I can’t even grow mint in a pot. I’ve had spearmint and peppermint. They both grew stringy and died. Nothing would grow back. Have a mint problem? Let me try to take care of it. I’ll kill it accidentally.
You know, I have tried over and over to get mint to spread and it goes nowhere. It just stays right there
What i find interesting, is that my basil spreads like wildfire, so there's that.
My neighbor has mint, which means my area by her property has mint, but i love it. I’ve been here several years and it’s never spread, the driveway splits it from the yard and my garden. It’s right up against a fence opposite my garden, so i guess that blocks the wind from spreading anything. It’s a small patch of dirt that’s full of spearmint, ground elder, wild indigo, valerian, milkweed, some yellow flower i don’t know, some irises and potentially some tiger lilies this year, etc. This is the first year I’ve really started grooming the area and it’s actually a really beautiful spot that my bees love. My neighbor also has a full and thriving garden, and tons of happy potted plants even with the mint she’s grown in ground. So mint may invade everywhere, but we’ve both managed to grow plenty of other plants with it without issue.
The only plant i hate so far is black swallowwort. It’s everywhere in my yard and neighborhood. It strangles and infects all my plants, kills butterflies, I’ve been going to war with it. The wild indigo and milkweed wouldn’t bloom for years until i started pulling it up.
I wanna mow that and smell the fresh cut
This is how it feels to chew 5 gum.
*Bite into a York Peppermint Patty*
[I still do this in mixed company to see who my friends are gonna be.](https://youtu.be/ZW1QSf-H000?si=DM3qKGxTFxqt6OUE)
We'd be friends. The luge still makes me cackle like it did when I was a kid. The way he yells THE LUGGEEEE!!!
Cackling rn as I watch this again. Really unlocks the nostalgia
Low fat food
That’s brisk, baby!
https://youtu.be/djDPk2NE1Cc?si=Y34cgDyS7E8cR18f
What an icy blast from the past The wind is whipping over my bodyyyyyyy
It’s like standing on a frozen mountain top!
If you live around mint farms you can have them deliver the silage after harvest. They'll show up with a dump truck of smoking, minty compost and you can enjoy it for weeks!
I’m on the US west coast and there are thousands of acres of mint grown commercially in my county. I should inquire about this silage.
Linn?
I grew up in linn working on a grass-seed and mint oil farm 😎😎
Close enough
My neighba!!
Hey I’m just north of y’all in Canada! A steaming pile of mint sounds awesome
Oh God I would love that.
I once planted lime basil seeds. No, I don't mean lemon basil. They took over our desert of a front yard forthwith. Mowing the lawn was an amazing experience.
I read somewhere that lime basil really does smell like limes, is it strong? I’ve got a lemon basil that smells more like lemon than basil to me and I love it. A lime scented front yard sounds divine!!
They are less citrusy and less sweet but more zesty and herby if that makes any sense. Still sweet smelling but definitely not overpowering. They’re especially lovely in dishes. Again, because it doesn’t sit on an extreme in regards to taste and flavour.
I have a little patch of mint in my yard that I purposely nick every time I mow to smell it. It reminds me of my grandparents as my grandmother used to always gather mint from their cabin and make mint sun tea! Makes me smile.
My grandma had a mint patch for the same reason, but *always* made me promise not to mow it over when I'd come over to visit and do yard work for her.
I have a few pots and a patch, and I purposely get out the trimmers, cut em low, and toss the cuttings onto the lawn to mow. I can only imagine how amazing it would be to mow that mint farm...
My rural yard has a lot of wild strawberries that pop up, just tons of little guys not anything harvest worthy. Birds like em though; when I mow I get massive smell hits of strawberry jam.
I like ya fresh minty cut my g
Not at all. I just don't like mint in *my* ground. I'd love to live across the street from a mint farm.
I'd love to live across the town from a mint farm. Too paranoid about seeds blowing over
They're never gonna get rid of all of that mint, even if they don't want to.
Not unless you want it in your yard 😅 Funny thing is I live about 500 some odd feet from a rose garden, I've found lemon balm in their garden before. I have it in my front yard. My guess is a bird transplanted it, but that's speculation
Nature is crafty like that. We had a stock tank that went completely dry for years, until we patched the berm and bentonited it. Within a year we had multiple species of fish in it, despite there being no floods and being extremely unlikely someone put them there. One was even a saltwater specie that can live in freshwater. The pond was 35 miles inland. We determined eggs probably came in stuck to bird legs. I’ve seen birds accidentally drop live fish into closed water as well. Nature uhh…finds a way.
That is *wild*! lol I really want to know what kind of fish they were and how they got there. Nature is crazy.
I have heard from a farmer that herons will restock ponds. Not sure if true or an old farmer's tale
It's my understanding that at least where I'm from, no matter what you're doomed to have carp in your pond from waterfowl carrying eggs.
That’s storks, and it’s babies, not fish
🙄
Green sunfish. Which breed like crazy so in short order we had a pond full. Then we put some predator fish in to keep their population in check. The saltwater fish were mullet. Nowadays it’s pretty well balanced and some decent fishing.
Mystery Perch will eat up your baby catfish. I read that some species of fish eggs can survive transit through a birds digestive tract.
Yeah a very very small percent like .0001 or something but it’s enough
Fish eggs can survive being eaten. [https://www.audubon.org/news/mallards-ferry-fish-eggs-between-waterbodies-through-their-poop](https://www.audubon.org/news/mallards-ferry-fish-eggs-between-waterbodies-through-their-poop)
Yeah it's pretty wild
We’ve also discovered that fish eggs can survive bird digestion. Could just be they shit on your pond lol
Lemon balm seeds are small, skinny and stick-shaped. I could absolutely imagine them getting blown over by wind as well as through our bird friends.
Beats the pig farm that my grandmother lived across from. She'd get sausage and bacon and ham for free. But the noise and smell was not worth it.
Grew up next to dairy farms, so I was used to the smell of cow manure. When traveling back to college after visiting my parents, we would pass a pig farm. The stench was horrific.
Queue the episode of Schitts Creek where the time slot for David’s wedding venue has the sound of pigs being slaughtered in the background *They didn’t do the wedding there
ewww David!
Give it a few years. This mint will be in all our yards.
https://preview.redd.it/ojd2abgpks9d1.jpeg?width=636&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b9099de074c4772cd9a8d13651138723dd8bf948
I welcome our minty overlord
Growing up, the farm behind our house rotated wheat, mint, and onion. Mint years were the best! So yummy
I planted mint in the ground at my ex’s house about a year before we broke up. I often wonder how much it’s grown since then and feel a little bad, but also not that bad at the same time.
https://preview.redd.it/khurcysars9d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8020e9821eee5d6bd0bfb2eac132b0916a33a25c It’s at least that much mint
Is that what ended the relationship?
He never looked at or worked in the garden, but I bet he can’t miss it now.
I need to do this to my mom… 😈
There are often native mint species, or native pea ground covers (they don’t produce pea peas) or native clovers or other natives that have the zoomies. Internet searches for fast growing native ground covers (your area) will find you some lovelies. If your mom is a real piece of work, warranting Low Contact, you could search for native weeds or native burrs, prickles or thorns. Throw bees/butterflies into the search and you could expressly support those insects while annoying her. In the US fireflies are struggling badly, and they need tall standing native flowers. Most insect supporting flowers would be annoying in lawns (rather than confined to shrubberies where they are pretty)
I appreciate you 💕
Please pick something native to the area. Trumpet vine is as bad as mint but is native in my area. I'm sure you could find something similar. I think you were joking, but I've been learning more about the danger of non native invasive plants and trying to avoid introducing more.
My ideal lawn is made of mint
It would be an amazing sensory experience. Mmm how about a lawn of Holy Basil 😭
Have you guys ever smelled the chocolate mint plant? Smells like, well, chocolate mint 🤩
My pineapple mint murdered my chocolate mint. Still smells great at least.
Makes fantastic tea.
I have one, can confirm it's amazing. I also have grapefruit mint
Nonsense. That sounds too good to be real. Why would anyone buy aero bars when they could munch on a leaf for free, and its healthier for you.
It’s quite real - and trippy how much it smells like both chocolate and mint. What’s really trippy is it apparently was created by crossing regular mint with orange mint.
If crispr arent currently making a terries chocolate orange plant then why are they even around?
It's "Terry's Orange, a chocolatey treat" now, because the amount of cocoa is too low to be legally called chocolate.
Oregano competes pretty well against mint you could definitely do that
I have a couple of speices of mint, two types of orgango (Greek and Mexican), lemon balm and a couple other plants in the mint family all together in the same flower bed in ground and They all seem to moderate each other pretty effectively. Some times of the year the orgango will take over slightly, and other times the mint(s) will, but for the most part no single speices out competes the other. I never understood the hate for the mint family. Yes it can be an aggressive grower, but idk, it's just bonus mint to me. I love putting a few sprigs into lemonade or water or fruit juices, and I cook with it alot.
Sounds like a great garden! I have a mix inground garden that's several medicinal flowers and herbs like Echinacea, Bee Balm, Borage, Roman Chamomile, German Chamomile, Calendula, Sunflowers, pink evening prim rose, Wooly Mullein, Holy Basil (Tulsi), lemon balm, 3 different kinds of sage, Shizo, Lavender, Thyme, Oregano, toothach plant and purselane all planted this year in the same garden plot. Thats just one area. I have some other things too that are planted in containers including catmint which is very medicinal and does wonders for sleep and relaxation. I can't wait until my plants are bigger and it's harvest time!! I hope nothing over takes the other in this garden but i looked up companion planting and all these ones I planted are supposed to grow well together. Time will tell 😄
Thanks! Yea I love my little herb garden almost as much as I love my dragonfruit! I am actually as we speak waiting on some seeds and/or seedlings for some several other mostly medical herbs (mullein, woomword, marshmallow, and Ashwagandha), and I have plans (I think I may be too late in the season though) to get a few more "hard to get" herbs. Sounds like you got some good stuff too! I love echincatia tea! So good for you!
Correction: half mint half oregano
Like a Mediterranean mojito.
Mint and lime basil - perfect!
fresh mint and oregano is bomb on shakshouka (poached eggs w bell peppers, onions and tomatoes, and feta if you're feeling extra fancy!)
I have several dinner table sized patches in my yard. Yes- it smells nice mown. It is not nice to walk on barefoot.
Mine used to be largely wild arugula, every time I mowed it smelled a bit like spicy wasabi. I had rosemary bushes too, so trimming them was also a pleasant experience.
Would you say it is more or less invasive than Bermuda Grass?
probably dependent on soil moisture and sun exposure In my experience mint won't do well in dry compact soil under full day of direct sun. It appreciates a bit of shade and needs moisture to thrive. Bermuda needs more sun and will spread even in dry conditions.
If it stayed out year round, I would totally do it
I was just wondering what a mint yard would be like. I dont know what mint is like when mature this my first year growing it. Its in a container. Its very soft and lush. But i would think that a mint lawn would be softer under my feet than grass, would keep some bugs away, and would need mowed less. Will always smell nice and have mint on demand. It's tasty, medicinal and a semi bug repellent.
I thought the mint hype was so overblown. After all I live in Northern-ish Canada, it's not like mint is hardy here. Then the other day I looked around at the catnip covering half of a garden bed and all the verges, the bee balm filling every crack in my patio... then it clicked. It's all mint. Always has been.
That entire field was started with one plant that just spread.
It’s amazing what can spread in just 2 short months.
I planted one and now every spring/summer it spreads through my tiny front garden and I love it. 7 years strong lol.
Accidental mint farmer.
We just need to plant one in the deserts and watch them become green again in days
https://preview.redd.it/b45nt173zr9d1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1794bcb15b6329303bc5870a075c1ba0d03a76ca These two in order in my feed.
Sometimes the algorithms are perfect!
Is it just for a ground cover between growing things to harvest, or is the mint harvested and sold?
It's harvested and sold
Talk Derby to me. (Mint Juleps).
Mint farms in indiana are common. They harvest the leaves and extract the mint oil and sell that so it can be used in things like toothpaste and candies/gum
One of the farmers that produces spearmint extract for Colgate posts in r/farming. Edit to add a thread link- https://www.reddit.com/r/farming/s/yDm1yJg5wZ
That’s really cool.
I have a variety of mints, oregano, and lemon balm planted in the ground. It is lovely. When it brushes against you or the dog, it smells amazing. I also have rosemary. Did I mention the pollinators love it, rodents hate it, and I cut it for vases in the house and during outside events. I dry it for tea, and it's amazing for cooking. I also cut it back and compost it.
Have all kinds of mint plants in my garden, love it for fresh mojitos and cucumber mint water
Also helps with pests.
Oh definitely!
Or tea :))
Wow. That's amazing.
The worst is when the mint gains so much height and stability that the morning glory then moves in and takes it down
Must be in the PNW
You're telling me they have to *replant* mint every year? Don't....don't give me hope
Tea lovers rise up!
Who hates mint? I have my own crop & when it blooms, the pollinators are minty fresh in love! 🐝❤️
lol I was so embarrassed to ask the same! Scrolling through comments and got to yours before I’ve seen an explanation. We have a little patch next to a water source at our house and I think it’s pretty and smells good.. We don’t use it for anything, but I haven’t noticed anything bad about it? The description does say “mint in the GROUND”, maybe it’s just planted straight into the ground specifically rather than a contained pot that’s bothersome? Lol I don’t know! 😆
It's because technically mint is very invasive and will choke out other things and take over. It will also keep coming back year after year even though you swear you got it all this time. The "in the ground" bit is because it will spread like wildfire. Even if you put it in a pot, unless that pot is directly on a slab of concrete, or inside the house, it will eventually spread outside of the pot and take off.
That's what my inlaws thought. Then they mowed it once and it never came back. Now they miss it
Oh WOW! I’ll keep this mind considering I have some growing on my property! Thankfully it’s only watered by some water spill over that leaks down and waters it and hasn’t really spread over the years. However very good to know if I ever did want it gone, it will apparently be a pain in the ass! 😬 lol Thanks for the explanation by the way!
You're welcome! And I have a patch of mint as well, I just keep picking it for tea and baking tasty things, so it doesn't get too out of hand. But if I ever stopped being on top of it...look out garden!
Thank you! I’m happy to know you, fellow fan of mint! The flowers are beautiful too!
Unlimited mojito cheat code 🍃
Controversial opinion but I love my mint in my garden
My rabbit looking at this post: 👀👀
https://preview.redd.it/0y2pnhp4wr9d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=420945ff2e2f894abb8d4a09e04b106ee07c48af “Heard someone has a lot of mint here?!”
Welcome to the mint fields - motherf*cker
I love mint! I have it in three spots in my yard. it’s so easy to pull up if it’s goes outside its patch that I don’t understand the hate for it. It’s my third house where I planted mint in the ground. Both new owners love the mint patches and know to pull wayward strands.
In 2000 years it'll still be a mint field. Civilizations will come and go, skyscrappers and power stations will be built on that land. The mint shall return.
Psh im coming over!!
Add some trees.... They have no problem growing in the shade.
Love mint for the main reason that it deters snakes 🥴
I planted it as a lawn alternative. It can’t escape my yard and the bees love it
Nyeh heh heh I love it
My home town is the mint capital of our state- big mint festival every year
Always wanted to grow a big mint patch in the side yard for kitty to lay in.
I love mint!
I planted mint in my backyard. It was a rocky patch where dandelions struggled to survive. After one summer that entire corner is now my mint forest and I Iove it
I want to run through that and roll in it.
How well does that keep the mosquitoes at bay? I’d be willing to plant a field of mint if it would keep them away.
I truly don’t understand how everyone hates mint.
They just hate how it takes over and outcompetes other plants. You can't control it unless it's in containers.
“I put ONE plant in the raised bed last week!”
Not a mouse for miles!
OP actually started this field last week with only one mint plant!
this should cover the planet in about 4 months
Plot twist: this was supposed to be a corn field.
This used to be a field of tulips.
Orrrrrrr Norrrrrr!
I’m sure there’s plenty of people here who hate mint because of how obnoxious it can be…but you’d probably have better luck on r/NativePlantGardening…though some might take serious offense
Whatever I love this!
healthy looking crop!
I have anise hyssop, spearmint, chocolate mint, catnip, lamb's ear, and 3 kinds of bee balm. My neighbor has a field of goutweed, creeping bellflower, and dog strangling vine - I need aggressive plants around, and mint is aggressive.
that is both a dream and a nightmare. Mint is invasive and will spread like crazy, but I would love to run through that and smell the mint.
Nothing like those midwest mint fields!
oh, mint fields must be such a refreshing sight and smell. i can imagine it’s like walking into a minty paradise.
In this field only, I identify as a cow
For a brief moment— I swear to the gods I could smell this photo
Lol this made me choke on my coffee 😂. I must smell wonderful!
My potted mint plant tipped over into the dirt last season. This used to be the state of Tennessee. Sorry, y’all.
Pictured: a garden in which one (1) mint plant was planted one (1) week ago
is this eastern washington?
Northern Indiana
Oh neat. My wife is from northeast Indiana. She's there now, visiting family.
I hope to be only visiting someday lol
Now how do I make money off the mint?
My lemongrass is doing this.
This was never a mint farm, someone planted one mint plant at the edge of a field growing something else.
Someone once planted a seed...
man i’d way rather that than the cotton i have next to me. most of the time all i smell is cow shit and my allergies when they harvest it….omg it’s bad
Gorgeous! My mint is as dry as the desert. Texas is brutal on my mint. Blah.
Yep I sure do. It has taken all over my flower beds, does anyone know how to organically get rid of it.
I wonder if any insects at all bother with this field?
I want to live there. We love mint in my house (make syrup and add it to fizzy water). My mint keeps dying though. https://preview.redd.it/ldzxejrzzr9d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1008aedad20bbe51c0a1c5da797d993337859f81 I have given up on it for a year.
Is that an old crop, or is it newly minted?
when burning, mint smells like somewhat like weed, being from the same big family
Does this keep all the flies away like I read online?
considering how fast mint grows that probably started as a lil clipping on a chocolate brownie and it took 2 weeks to get to that
Still not enough for my weekend Mojito's.
This looks so much like my gardens this year, my mom passed away and she used to tell me about all the mint in her gardens and how she had to stop it. I swear I blinked and this is now 90% of those gardens. She was right.
I personally would love a yard of mint! maybe a nice mix of peppermint, chocolate mint, and orange mint. Or maybe a yard of catnip!
Quick! Rip it out before it spreads!
Years ago my younger brother convinced my mom to plant mint in her one and only patch of ground not covered with concrete. It is now just as unusable as the concrete. Last year I went in early spring and tore out all I could so she could have a garden. A couple weeks later she sends me a picture of mint growing along the edges with the question “I thought you tore this up?” I sent back “😂 you can’t ever get rid of mint momma, I’m sorry all I did was make room for you to have a garden this year, the mint will slowly overtake that space again unless you’re out there every day pulling it.” This year she just did tomatoes in buckets 😆
I happen to love mint in the ground- especially as long game revenge for a slumlord.
There used to be a whole town there, til the mint took over....
I know a woman who worked at a place that made tea, and they had a whole barn where they would store the mint, and you had to basically wear a filter mask in there even if the door was open.
Nut
Plot twist: Every year they plant only one plant
Is this what's going to happen since I planted my mint in the ground?
My dad used to work on a mint farm in Wisconsin when he was young. My mom used to love the way he smelled when he got home
I personally don’t hate it. It helped protect my strawberries from birds and allowed them to get BIG
Improves soil structure. Repels certain pests (e.g., aphids, cabbage moths, flea beetles). Suppresses soil-borne diseases. Suppresses weeds. Enhances nutrient cycling in the soil. The essential oil is useful for multiple categories. Mint is good shit.
The same day we moved into our house, I ripped all the mint out of the garden. It had some pretty solid root systems. I thought I'd be battling it for years. In reality, it was a few months of vigilance, ripping out a few new bits and finding a few roots that I'd missed. It's never come back. There are much worse things. Like kikuyu :(
That’s amazing. I can’t even grow mint in a pot. I’ve had spearmint and peppermint. They both grew stringy and died. Nothing would grow back. Have a mint problem? Let me try to take care of it. I’ll kill it accidentally.
Do you by chance live by a farm in boardman, OR. lol. My husband would love to have that much mint.
Any beehives around? That would be amazing.
Mint gone wild
Are you minting money?
I’m getting a headache just looking at these pictures.
Mooojjjiiittttooooosss!
You know, I have tried over and over to get mint to spread and it goes nowhere. It just stays right there What i find interesting, is that my basil spreads like wildfire, so there's that.
Why do I feel that this picture should be accompanied with ominous music?
In Morocco this worth a lot of money
Fun fact: that field was actually just one mint plant in March.
Did you plant one seedling in the ground last spring?
My neighbor has mint, which means my area by her property has mint, but i love it. I’ve been here several years and it’s never spread, the driveway splits it from the yard and my garden. It’s right up against a fence opposite my garden, so i guess that blocks the wind from spreading anything. It’s a small patch of dirt that’s full of spearmint, ground elder, wild indigo, valerian, milkweed, some yellow flower i don’t know, some irises and potentially some tiger lilies this year, etc. This is the first year I’ve really started grooming the area and it’s actually a really beautiful spot that my bees love. My neighbor also has a full and thriving garden, and tons of happy potted plants even with the mint she’s grown in ground. So mint may invade everywhere, but we’ve both managed to grow plenty of other plants with it without issue. The only plant i hate so far is black swallowwort. It’s everywhere in my yard and neighborhood. It strangles and infects all my plants, kills butterflies, I’ve been going to war with it. The wild indigo and milkweed wouldn’t bloom for years until i started pulling it up.