mint in my garden

Thu May 20, 2010 12:41 am

i have heard from a few people that planting my mint in my garden was not a good idea any thoughts about it?

Thu May 20, 2010 2:00 am

Mint is perenual, invasive, and impossible to get rid of it once you plant it, cause it propagates via roots. It doesn't stay where you plant it, pops up everywhere.

Thu May 20, 2010 3:29 pm

If you don't want it taking over your garden, some people do in certain instances. You may want to try and dig it up and transplant it to a pot. IF you do this make SURE you get all the root, dig pretty far around it.

Thu May 20, 2010 4:57 pm

Basically agree with above. The reason why people caution against mint is given decent conditions it can be so aggressive/ invasive, take over your yard. I have some planted in the ground in dry shade, poor clay/rock soi. Given that, it still spreads, but not as rampantly and I can keep up by pulling it.

If yours is in better conditions than mine and if you don't want a yard full of mint, then gixx is right, better to dig it out and put in containers.