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Will mint out compete crab grass and fescue?
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I'll tell you in a few weeks
"Hey guys my new mint plant is growing well in the ground"
"That's cool I use arch btw"
NGL, I'd rather have a lawn of mint than of grass.
I used to have that. Pretty sure our neighbor planted it to try and sabotage us because our yard was a mess. Fuck you Jerry. On the rare occasion that I'd mow, it smelled amazing
I ended up getting rid of my garden this year, planted clover,grass and wildflowers. But along the fence line, I just planted potatoes. So it's potato surrounded by grass and clover.
I asked AI and I still don’t understand; what’s this got to do with making tons of money?
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I really don't know what you're all getting into a tizz about?! Grows just fine for me ;)
Seems like this really depends on the local climate, or maybe we just don't get the right type of mint here. All the actual weeds (i.e. plants that we don't want to grow) seem to shake down mint for its lunch money.
A garden full of mint would be julep heaven!
That's why I planted mine in a plant box instead of into garden directly.
I used to have them in plant boxes on the balcony when we lived in a ghetto in a bigger city and the only reason they ended up eventually dying after a reign of Terror in every single plant box on my balcony for a couple years, was because I got depression and forgot to water them during a particularly toasty summer. We are talking three months of scorching heat and no water before they finally admitted defeat.
There is no plant I fear and respect more than mint.
Its not a weed if its useful. It may just be a little "unwanted at the moment".
My 96 year old neighbor always tells me," a weed is just flower growing somewhere you didn't want it. "
Let's keep calm. Round leaves mint cut small enough make fine lawn.
Is this a mnemonic?
True but mint is woody so eventually stems harden and become brittle
Wah, it is better than goatheads
Love Kevin from EpicGardening
I'll plant it next to my invasive english ivy and see which one wins...
If you're in America throw some kudzu in there for some extra spice
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.
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
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I have no idea what I'm doing
I don't understand why people act like having a lawn of mint is worse than grass. Seems like it requires less maintenance.
Grass lawns started off as a way for pretentious rich people to flaunt how much of their land they could waste on nothing important, so it’s really not worse at all. Just another dumb trend that caught on.
More shade for flees and tics
I planted mint in my yard for this exact reason. I hate grass lawns. However local flowers are probably better for local pollinator and bird populations, so I might add those too.
please do! native flora are super important, especially since large monocultures of a useless crop (grass) have become popular. if your yard is gonna be filled with plants that you aren't using, you might as well fill it with plants that are useful to the environment
You are closed in on three sides. This is a good spot for mint. I recommend putting 30cm/1ft of woodchips/mulch as a barrier to keep it all in.
I can tell you that 30cm of woodchip will do sod all to stop it. My mint grows under 50cm of concrete. It takes a couple of years to get there, but it does!
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Got to know a gardener lady who lives far outside of the city. She usually gives me dried mint for a tea since she has it abundant. That is how I know.
Haha! That's such a stupid thing to do. That's why I've only planted a blackberry in my garden.
Throw some blueberry, strawberry plants in there too
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See also horseradish, amaranth, native sunflowers, and in my case, tomatoes.
Planted once, 10 yrs later still finding them in every nook and cranny of the neighborhood.
Don't forget about green onions.
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