Spreading mint

[mormor]

Advice please! I like mint, but now it has got out of control.  Is it possible to dig it up? I have dug and dug but there are always pieces left.  All ideas welcome!

[mormor]

[kGarden]

My Mint plant is in a pot, to contain it. Would you consider putting weedkiller on the bits that are left in the ground that sprout?

[Silverleaf]

I dug up some peppermint from one of my beds this year - it had been neglected for a couple of years and spread out quite a lot.

Of course I missed some roots and kept seeing tiny little plants popping up. I just pulled them out every time I saw them and got as much of the root out as I could at the same time - it's quite easy if you get them when they're small.

By the end of the summer it seemed to have given up, but I'm sure there will be more next year!

[French-Dream]

My Mint plant is in a pot, to contain it.

That's the only way with mint, that or a chair & whip...

[artichoke]

My mint has spread into my asparagus bed, and could be called a weed....but I just keep cutting it for salads, mint tea, flavouring etc, and am not complaining. I love mint.

[powerspade]

I grow mint in a old plastic 45 gal water tank

[mormor]

Yes, you are all right of course. I know I should have started it in a pot, but it's a bit late now!  I am just grateful it's not in the asparagus bed - commiserations! So it sounds like treatment for ground elder.  Just keep going!

[goodlife]

Just like others said...keep 'disturbing' it and it will eventually give up. I had mint popping up on lawn edge..but after 5 yrs or so mowing...it is no more

[antipodes]

It is fairly easy to rip out, wait for a damp period and it will pull out OK. yes it comes back but it is not really such of a pain if you keep hacking away!

[theothermarg]

I didn't realise before visiting Jekkas Herbs was that if you let different kinds of mint together they all end up with a mixture of flavours, a bit like different colours of plastercine turning brown. It seems she grows it in the same bed but each in it's own pot
marg