Mint is absolutely killing it

And it’s stupid easy to grow. Once you have mint growing in your garden/yard, you will never not have mint growing in your garden/yard/neighbors yard.

We once planted 6 different herbs in a rectangle planter including chocolate mint and spearmint, next year the whole planter and part of the one beside only contained chocolate mint.

Chocolate mint is especially evil in my book because it took over an entire area of our yard and killed off my grandfather’s raspberries that had been growing for decades and transplanted to two new homes ending their long lineage.

It took over a entire section of our garden as a kid. I chewed that shit all day every day every summer.

That sounds like a pretty good memory.

Don’t have tons. Thanks for making a point of that. Going in the gratitude journal.

That’s unless you also have dill.

Immovable object meets unstoppable force.

Made a herb planter pot thing for my mom for mother’s day a few years ago, dill still going strong even with the cat munching on it

Nobody going to mention bamboo? Ok, I’ll mention bamboo.

I can somehow kill dill. About the time it gets big enough to harvest some, it just bolts and dies. Even with a sun shade. I have to replant it every year.

Maybe your soil is not compatible, idk.

Once you have mint growing in your garden/yard, you will never not have mint

Broadleaf herbicide keeps my neighbor’s mint infestation on his side without much issue. No worse than the violet, really. His kudzu is the only thing that causes a problem.

Once you have mint growing in your garden/yard

you will never not have mint growing in your garden/yard/neighbors yard.

I love how the mint just spreads from your yard to your neighbor’s yard.

It’s a gift that keeps on giving. Forcefully. My neighbors hate me.

Jokes on you and them. I planted Catnip (also an invasive mint variety) to kill the weeds and rodents.

I managed to kill mint that was in a big planting pot. We had a very hot and dry spell and it just didn’t come back the next year. I was flabbergasted.

Also in my new house, animals ate the mint all the way to the ground. Never had that happen before!

Ivy and brush formula round up appears to have done the trick on the patch in my yard some asshole previous owner spread. I don’t want a mono-culture yard but I hate both the smell and taste of mint. If there’s one herb I could do away with forever that would be it

I was fully expecting this to mention Linux

Or that app for tracking household expenses.

That one closed and got rolled into credit karma. Guess that’s one L for mint.

Not really an L. It’s to be expected. Mint is always getting consumed!

Could also be a phone plan company. Just more evidence in favor of the versatility of mint.

I was fully expecting this to be only about Linux

No sorry, that’s not very apt

Yes, that’s why my distro of choice is Linux Mint lmao

I like my kernel as I like my wine. Vintage.

I like 'm like my asshole, bleeding edge

What is it with humans and eating, smoking, or drinking any kind of leaf, seed, or other vegetable that has evolved a deadly toxin to avoid being eaten…?

“You know what, this tastes a bit bland, let’s add some insecticide to it to make it spicier!”

We get bored and don’t like bland things. These plants developed extreme flavors to deter most animals, but humans like to have unique and different things so it makes sense

I think spicy food is eaten in Spain, in India and in Thailand, because the spice acts as a disinfectant, which removes all kinds of germs (and therefore diseases) from your body, which is especially important in hot and humid climates, because bacteria spread like crazy there?

That’s a good point.

Also, spices can hide the fact that the food’s gone slightly off due to improper preservation (at least until it comes out one end or the other in a ballistic fashion, but then it’s possibly too late to pass the blame), so there might have been a bit of that, too.

Still, it’s funny how we love eating stuff that’d kill or seriously inconvenience most everything else.

We are weird creatures indeed.

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