How to Grow TONS of Mint (And Not Let it Take Over)
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Date: 2022-07-18
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Hunter
My old neighbor moved and gave us a large old pot that had some root scraps and dead plants in it and a couple clumps of potting soil. Looking at it you wouldn't think anything was alive in it. My wife and I just left it on our porch for a while until we could decide what to plant in it, and sure enough a bunch of plants started growing in it, and my wife picked a leaf and was like it's mint. So we threw one in another little pot and now it's a giant bush. Didn't need to do anything with it except water here and there. Only thing I don't know now is what to do with all of it. we can only make so many mojitos.
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My old neighbor moved and gave us a large old pot that had some root scraps and dead plants in it and a couple clumps of potting soil. Looking at it you wouldn't think anything was alive in it. My wife and I just left it on our porch for a while until we could decide what to plant in it, and sure enough a bunch of plants started growing in it, and my wife picked a leaf and was like it's mint. So we threw one in another little pot and now it's a giant bush. Didn't need to do anything with it except water here and there. Only thing I don't know now is what to do with all of it. we can only make so many mojitos.
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Serena
Oh my, my goodness.
MINT: The antichrist of herbs.
I planted one small plant of regular, not I'm the boss! Mint. 7 years ago as a companion plant to help with my then plants. I've been battling it ever since. No matter how much you pull it up, no matter how much spray, no matter the exorcism you have performed. It's coming back. And it's bringing all it's broke ass relative's with it.
You could douse it with gasoline, set it on fire and a week later? It's spread four feet in every direction.
FOR REAL.
You don't need growing instructions.
You need a priest.
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Oh my, my goodness.
MINT: The antichrist of herbs.
I planted one small plant of regular, not I'm the boss! Mint. 7 years ago as a companion plant to help with my then plants. I've been battling it ever since. No matter how much you pull it up, no matter how much spray, no matter the exorcism you have performed. It's coming back. And it's bringing all it's broke ass relative's with it.
You could douse it with gasoline, set it on fire and a week later? It's spread four feet in every direction.
FOR REAL.
You don't need growing instructions.
You need a priest.
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mama's_answers
I am not gonna lie, years ago I planted mint in the ground because I didnt know better.
The first year I was ecstatic at how well it was doing. The second year it grew in to my flower bed, several feet away, and decimated it. Every year after, it would find something new in my garden to strangle.
Eventually, I gave up and turned that area into a chicken pen. The chickens took it out for me, thank goodness.
I have since moved and the mint only goes into a raised bed now. Lesson learned.
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I am not gonna lie, years ago I planted mint in the ground because I didnt know better.
The first year I was ecstatic at how well it was doing. The second year it grew in to my flower bed, several feet away, and decimated it. Every year after, it would find something new in my garden to strangle.
Eventually, I gave up and turned that area into a chicken pen. The chickens took it out for me, thank goodness.
I have since moved and the mint only goes into a raised bed now. Lesson learned.
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Chinatown
Over a dozen years ago, I bought some mint from Trader Joe's. I was making mojitos. I took all the leaves off. I buried the stems. In ground compost. To my suprise, I now have a never ending supply of mojitos. Whatever mint is sold at Trader Joe's for $0. 79, I now have more than I could ever use. It doesn't bother me. It's good ground cover. Whenever I want to plant something, I can just pull out a bunch of mint, and plant where the mint was.
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Over a dozen years ago, I bought some mint from Trader Joe's. I was making mojitos. I took all the leaves off. I buried the stems. In ground compost. To my suprise, I now have a never ending supply of mojitos. Whatever mint is sold at Trader Joe's for $0. 79, I now have more than I could ever use. It doesn't bother me. It's good ground cover. Whenever I want to plant something, I can just pull out a bunch of mint, and plant where the mint was.
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Rawan
I've tried planting mint multiple times and it always gets infested with aphids. They dont transfer to other herbs around it. I tried growing it in the ground outdoors, in a pot indoors and in an aerogarden (hydroponic) grown from seed. All 3 times a terrible aphid infestation kills my mint or makes the plant very weak. Spraying with sopay water has helped but they always return. Any advice on what to do to avoid the aphid inefstations?
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I've tried planting mint multiple times and it always gets infested with aphids. They dont transfer to other herbs around it. I tried growing it in the ground outdoors, in a pot indoors and in an aerogarden (hydroponic) grown from seed. All 3 times a terrible aphid infestation kills my mint or makes the plant very weak. Spraying with sopay water has helped but they always return. Any advice on what to do to avoid the aphid inefstations?
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AubriellePlays
As a little girl, I grew up spending about half my time at a cabin in the woods. There was a creek running through the front yard, and all along the bank we would find wild mint growing (I think spearmint. We used to pick and eat it right from there. Recently I stumbled across that same variety, and now I'm seeing this, and I can't wait to fill a huge planter with it. I'm so happy to have a piece of my childhood back.
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As a little girl, I grew up spending about half my time at a cabin in the woods. There was a creek running through the front yard, and all along the bank we would find wild mint growing (I think spearmint. We used to pick and eat it right from there. Recently I stumbled across that same variety, and now I'm seeing this, and I can't wait to fill a huge planter with it. I'm so happy to have a piece of my childhood back.
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handmade
Should also point out that even local exterminators here all agree: Vermin (mice & rats) and a lot of insects pests hate mint. Mosquitoes dislike all the lemon herbs- including lemon mint- so thats a bonus! Ive had mint planted on solid iron red soil with 100+ degree temps, months dry and no shade, yet I couldnt get the mint to die! This stuff is the cockroach of the herbal world. Pot it or get ready to fight it forever!
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Should also point out that even local exterminators here all agree: Vermin (mice & rats) and a lot of insects pests hate mint. Mosquitoes dislike all the lemon herbs- including lemon mint- so thats a bonus! Ive had mint planted on solid iron red soil with 100+ degree temps, months dry and no shade, yet I couldnt get the mint to die! This stuff is the cockroach of the herbal world. Pot it or get ready to fight it forever!
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Kat
In Germany there was a wonderful, mostly outdoor restaurant in Rathingen by an old mill near the water called Der Muhle. They always served cold mint drinks in mason jars with handles full of fresh mint sprigs, a little ice, a squeeze of lemon, and cold spring water with no added sugar and was sipped through a straw. It was so refreshing on a hot summers day and was by far their most popular drink.
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In Germany there was a wonderful, mostly outdoor restaurant in Rathingen by an old mill near the water called Der Muhle. They always served cold mint drinks in mason jars with handles full of fresh mint sprigs, a little ice, a squeeze of lemon, and cold spring water with no added sugar and was sipped through a straw. It was so refreshing on a hot summers day and was by far their most popular drink.
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Ben
I stole my mint from a back alley and Ive been growing it since giving it to my parents. This year my yard is full of strawberries which nobody tells you spread like crazy. I have a really ugly clay and root filled back alley that Im trying to grow anything other than weeds. Im try to put lots of perennial wildflowers back there hopefully they will eventually outcompete the burdock.
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I stole my mint from a back alley and Ive been growing it since giving it to my parents. This year my yard is full of strawberries which nobody tells you spread like crazy. I have a really ugly clay and root filled back alley that Im trying to grow anything other than weeds. Im try to put lots of perennial wildflowers back there hopefully they will eventually outcompete the burdock.
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Gerald
I had mint in pots in my backyard at my last home and they were raised 2 feet above a flower bed. Somehow it got a start down below in the flowerbed and it was a nightmare. It wreaked havic in that bed and it was impossible to stop without ultimately ripping everything out and starting over. It can in every nook in the brick wall that adjoined the planter as well
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I had mint in pots in my backyard at my last home and they were raised 2 feet above a flower bed. Somehow it got a start down below in the flowerbed and it was a nightmare. It wreaked havic in that bed and it was impossible to stop without ultimately ripping everything out and starting over. It can in every nook in the brick wall that adjoined the planter as well
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Emily
Ive actually had the opposite problem where my mint goes through a cycle of growing and then dying. I live in Hawaii and It gets ample sun. The one thing I did notice was that if I water the leaves it starts wilting. But if I water it directly in the dirt, not getting the leaves wet it started growing back again. Does anyone else run into the same issue?
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Ive actually had the opposite problem where my mint goes through a cycle of growing and then dying. I live in Hawaii and It gets ample sun. The one thing I did notice was that if I water the leaves it starts wilting. But if I water it directly in the dirt, not getting the leaves wet it started growing back again. Does anyone else run into the same issue?
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After
a 50cm pot with drilled holes all around 3mm 0r 4 1 to 1. 5 inch apart plant it and it will grow out of the holes on the side as well the top the roots grow crazy and grow from whareve they find the light. will take 2to3 months to work its way down to the holes once it gets there it gives you more surface area from the pot to get it from.
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a 50cm pot with drilled holes all around 3mm 0r 4 1 to 1. 5 inch apart plant it and it will grow out of the holes on the side as well the top the roots grow crazy and grow from whareve they find the light. will take 2to3 months to work its way down to the holes once it gets there it gives you more surface area from the pot to get it from.
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tonya
you said it - you have to be brutal with mint. when i first began gardening - a friend gave me a big clump of mint from her yard. i knew nothing about mint. that was 20 yrs or more ago and i have mint all over. i like it and want some. but every year i have to be firm and brutal about keeping it under control.
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you said it - you have to be brutal with mint. when i first began gardening - a friend gave me a big clump of mint from her yard. i knew nothing about mint. that was 20 yrs or more ago and i have mint all over. i like it and want some. but every year i have to be firm and brutal about keeping it under control.
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handmade
Yo could you do a video on growing carrot tops or a video on a topic of how to grow a fruit tree is it by clippings and how does that work or can you grow a fruit tree from the seeds of the fruit itself cuz Im curious about it and all Ive seen is one but not the other and Im wondering if its true.
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Yo could you do a video on growing carrot tops or a video on a topic of how to grow a fruit tree is it by clippings and how does that work or can you grow a fruit tree from the seeds of the fruit itself cuz Im curious about it and all Ive seen is one but not the other and Im wondering if its true.
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Tara
I have the worst time growing mint. I dont know why but it always dies. Keep the soil moist, dies, cut back on the water, dies, grows 2-3 inches tall, dies. I never even get to the point of being able to set the container outside before it dies. Mint and lavender doesnt grw for me for some reason
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I have the worst time growing mint. I dont know why but it always dies. Keep the soil moist, dies, cut back on the water, dies, grows 2-3 inches tall, dies. I never even get to the point of being able to set the container outside before it dies. Mint and lavender doesnt grw for me for some reason
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