See also: Alder and willow
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.
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.
Don’t forget the Lilly of the vally, 3 way cage match ( or uncaged in this case )
Thank you for acknowledging my pain
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
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.
In fairness, if I were made of mint, I would also cannibalise myself.
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 :)
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’m aware it’s edible, I’m saying it doesn’t taste good.
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
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.
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.
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. "
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.”
That’s why you always plant it next to strawberries and blackberries.
Let’s keep calm. Round leaves mint cut small enough make fine lawn.
Is this a mnemonic?
No. Why would you think that?
I can’t really explain why, your sentence just strikes me as a fun mnemonic such as Dear King Philip Claps Often For Good Science (for the order of taxa). Can I ask which country or continent you’re from?
I’m from France and I lack a lot in understanding the rythm in the english language.
True but mint is woody so eventually stems harden and become brittle
In my experience round-leafed mint (Mentha suaveolens) is much less woody that other type. But I might be wrong.
Will mint out compete crab grass and fescue?
I’ll tell you in a few weeks
I asked AI and I still don’t understand; what’s this got to do with making tons of money?
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Haha! That’s such a stupid thing to do. That’s why I’ve only planted a blackberry in my garden.
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
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.
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.
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.
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 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
They are evil incarnate
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.
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.
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.
Make sure to try to find a thornless variety. Blackberry thorns will wreak havoc on your body and your clothes
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
Extremely hardy, hard to kill, and spiders love them. But the fruit is delicious!
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.
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Oh no, I planted Bamboo trees to avoid issues
“A species of bamboo”
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.
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.
Wait…
Hahaha. You poor soul.
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.
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luckily there is a weevil that is a pest to kudzu. not so much for english IVies. it seems succulents like opuntia and kalanchoe(mother of thousands or millions) is invasive.
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I don’t see anything. Must have been the wind.
Not a gardener but I definitely don’t know
Mint will take over anywhere you plant it.
I tried planting it and it just dies lmao. Spearmint on the other hand has a huge bush in its corner already…
If it didn’t smell so good and taste so great in ice cream, it would be a weed.
The only difference between an herb and a weed is how tasty it is. The only difference between a wildflower and a weed is how pretty it is.
It’s just whether you want it there or not.
A rose bush in a corn field is a weed!
Technically anything can be a weed if it’s growing where it’s not wanted.
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.
