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!
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?
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!
Quote from: kGarden on November 11, 2014, 16:27:50
My Mint plant is in a pot, to contain it.
That's the only way with mint, that or a chair & whip... :drunken_smilie:
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.
I grow mint in a old plastic 45 gal water tank :wave:
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!
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 :toothy10: :tongue3:
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!
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