See also: Alder and willow
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.
My wife planted some lemon balm in one of our raised beds “accidentally” and she’s lucky I love that shit. I cut a strategic handful or two out every day and it’s still not enough to keep it controlled.
My house smells fantastic tho
Now I want to plant mint, garlic and raspberry in three corners of my garden and have them battle it out.
I’m seeing a lot of debate right now with no solutions. GROW THE FUCKING PLANT NEAR THE WINDOW. KEEP IT INDOORS. If you’re growing a non-native species for human consumption, KEEP IT INSIDE. If you can, the best place is above the Kitchen sink window. If you don’t have that, you might have to tent.
The sink window is really nice because the plants are easy to water and they have plenty of sunlight.
Instructions Unclear, Plants escaped containmend
Glad y’all warned me about mint! I’ll just plant some nice snow-on-the-mountain in a small little patch over here.
I’ll plant it next to my invasive english ivy and see which one wins…
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.
You make that sound like it’s a bad thing and not, in fact, free garlic.
The garlic is great! The odor is not as great.
Ah, yeah, I could imagine it gets pretty pungent.
I’ve got privit, onion weed, rust weed and bamboo all fighting it out in gladiatoral combat
And winners reward will be acid ans 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
Don’t forget the Lilly of the vally, 3 way cage match ( or uncaged in this case )
Thank you for acknowledging my pain
Explain yourself right this instant young man!
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.
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.
I was promised this when I planted mint in ground at my 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.
I have also experienced this tragedy. But not before discovering that a little catnip gives mojitos a nice flavor
Since I do not enjoy being randomly attacked, I don’t mess with their stash.
weeds hate this one trick
Wow this grows really well!
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Okay, I’m going to trim this back now.
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How the hell did the mint get over there
That’s why I only plant horseradish!
would be the best smelling field tho
No joke we have a few pots of different mints growing by the trash cans for any unpleasant odors
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?”
Mint grows as hard as grass and weeds. Once you plant mint all you have is more mint
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.
fun fact: if you plant oragano next to mint, it will take on a minty flavor.
the tomato mozarella salad I made was… interesting
That’s so cool
Crystal cool - Holly
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
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.
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.
Touching distance, basically
Oh whew. We have a pepper patch between the experimental greek oregano and the lemon balm disaster
We have a rose bush like that which can’t be killed. Bitch had a cement truck parked on it for 2 hours and it just shrugged it off.
had the same problem. I dug down to the root and poured a cup of copper acetate crystals on it and buried it. never saw it again.
for context, it was growing out from under my garage concrete slab and was in an awkward spot.
Haha! That’s such a stupid thing to do. That’s why I’ve only planted a blackberry in my garden.
It’s ALMOST worth it for fresh Blackberries that actually taste like blackberries. Not that trash in the grocery store.
Do those get replicated or something? Crafted from foam, glue and paint?
They get picked before they’re ripe, which means their flavor isn’t very good.
Wait…
Hahaha. You poor soul.
Oh no, I planted Bamboo trees to avoid issues
“A species of bamboo”
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.
Bamboo looks way better than blackberry, I made sure to plant a ton of it in various parts of my yard.
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.
Personally I love https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolvulus_arvensis, it’s flowers are so cute! The neighborhood is blooming!
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.
addicted to the war game
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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
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.
Make sure to try to find a thornless variety. Blackberry thorns will wreak havoc on your body and your clothes
Extremely hardy, hard to kill, and spiders love them. But the fruit is delicious!
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.
If I ever did get one, I’d probably want to grow it indoors anyway, if that’s even possible. I’m more a city person and dont especially desire living somewhere with lawn space to maintain
Sounds like you’d be interested in hydroponics.
Rubus Ursinus (Pacific blackberry) and Allegheniensis and a few others are native to the US. They’re still prickly but not evil, we have some in the backyard and the turkeys love them.
I’m in NZ, of there is a naive blackberry, I’ve never heard of it. But we have a lot of blackberry in this country, it all sucks.
I mean tell that to all the birds eating my blackberries.
They are spreading seeds… That is the point of the berries.
Nothing eats the plant.
Even goats, which famously will eat blackberry, will eat anything else first.
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
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.
They are evil incarnate
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.
or you can put them on wires like grapes. idk if it’s unusual luck or skill issue, but my blackberries get stem rust every couple of years and they have to be cut down, they do grow back from roots but it keeps them from spreading too far
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.
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.
I planted Reynoutria japonica to get rid of my mint plants. I did not go to plan.
Did you also swallow a flie?
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!
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.
Roses suck. Also, no.
I’m thinking I let some clover run wild because the hoa board will shit their non-hoa approved shit receptacles.
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.
Does it smell nice when you drive over it? Does it allow rainwater to percolate? Can your vehicle get sufficient grip and support?
I guess maybe you’re worried it will dislodge the rocks and make the surface uneven? Because otherwise it seems like a non-problem. If you make a point of squashing the tallest bits each time you won’t even have to cut it.
Im not worried about it. The driveway is primarily a concrete slab, with the aforementioned river rock acting as a sort of decorative strip along the edge. It sure does smell nice.
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.”
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.
If you bought a supermarket pot you need to separate it and put it into a bigger pot. Otherwise it will cannibalise itself.
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 :).
I have chocolate mint and I find its not as hardy as other varieties.
It does really well with fairly wet and shady conditions (I had it under my elevated rain barrels and it did great, but didn’t spread beyond that) and poorly otherwise (since moving the rain barrels and exposing it to constant sun, it doesn’t want to grow much at all, much less spread).
Idk how much that’ll help your quest, but perhaps it will :)
In fairness, if I were made of mint, I would also cannibalise myself.
I have a patch of raspberries that’s been slowly traveling around my house for the last ten years.
You should make a pi
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.
I doubt it is nutritious though
if you’re talking about Kudzu, it must have some value in that regard, it was introduced in the US during the Great Depression as a way to feed people. turns out though, when they aren’t starving, people won’t eat just anything.
I’m aware it’s edible, I’m saying it doesn’t taste good.
Have you tried pickling it? I’m amazed at the number of ways humans have developed to make things that taste awful taste slightly ok.
There’s no accounting for taste. Some people eat canned fiddleheads. There’s gotta be someone out there that just loves the stuff.
Yeah, my buddy’s goat
