Tldr Mint is invasive.
How do you know I don’t live in western and central Asia, east to the Himalaya and eastern Siberia, where we all know mint is native!?
That’s why I installed Arch instead!
Random thought:
What if people who post in internet comments claiming to use Arch are actually just one person who’s a barely contained SCP?
Is his name Linus?
Archus, mirror universe Linus.
Does Linus use arch?
Fedora I believe
No
I hate you. TAKE MY UPVOTE. You SUDO’D ME TO UPVOTE YOU!
Not sure what you are talking about exactly. I’m stating this from the perspective of a gardener and forager.
I’m not sure what I’m talking about, either. Just a dumb joke.
It’s ok though, all the invasive grass people plant on purpose here out grows it and kills it like everything else.
Fuck lawns.
I don’t want to eat the grass though.
you could eat the mint
Exactly.
One time I did that, and was horrified to see that the next day the gardner removed it and disposed of the body.
It was my baby and it was literally choking itself in every pot I planted it because it would just grow until the entire pot was roots.
I now know that it had to be done, this is what it means to be an adult. To know that sometimes murdering a baby mint is for the greater good T_T
A lot of being adult is finding the justification and necesity of certain evils.
They are not welcomed, but we find peace in embracing, acclamating them.
I first learned this with pets. My brother in law, in his youth, would stone puppies to death. A cruel act but they would endanger the food rations. I am thankful I did not have to live that life.
I am thankful more humane and proactive measures exist now.
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Now there are. However this is country mexico decades ago. Not all are as luxurious as we are.
If the animals are left to live they will grow wild, it is why we neuter in modern civilization. Dogs and cats are especially invasive species and become a problem to local wild fauna. If we maintain them they would increase upkeep costs of food, another mouth is why we dont have kids loosely and willy nilly.
It is why in nature a mother cat or dog will eat their children. Starvation and malnutrition, by eating one the mother can live and feed the rest. To hope and give them a tomorrow.
You act as if these are things openly embraced. It is a merciful and swift death for we peasant folk. I apologize you have lived a life coddled from death and true necessity.
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Torture? I think you do not understand what a swift death entails.
Neither did my brother, then again you can’t even distinguish I said ‘in-law’ so what would you know of any three of these subjdct matters.
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Yes, you grab a stone and hit them directly. Quick, strong, and without hesitation.
Hesitation will bring undue suffering.
“It’s tragic that in ignorance there truly is bliss; we can never cherish it while we have it, but we still mourn it’s passing when we lose it.”
Throwing a rock to protect your food is humanity at it’s most fundamental level. It’s the reason we were able to develop as a species. When you’re reduced to that point, you do not have the luxury of extending your morality to the things that threaten you and yours. I’m sorry you have to confront this today, but this is the reality of life for most people in the world. It’s despicable by your standards, but your standards have gone generations without facing extreme hardship. I sincerely hope you never have more experience with the subject than discussing it online.
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Were this true, we wouldn’t be discussing it. This is not an issue from hundreds of years ago, this is the reality lived by more than a billion people every day. There are places where attacks from feral dog packs are a present concern (example, example), there’s countless reports about this it truly is not difficult to verify. How would you approach this, if you had less than $2.15/day to survive on? A thrown rock is a great deal more effective at addressing the problem than even the most fervent moralizing.
I’ve faced a lot more hardship than you
The playgrounds I grew up on could only be visited while armed guards were there. That many children in once place made too tempting a target to be left otherwise unprotected.
Spoiled rich country comment
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There are less cruel ways of killing a puppy than stoning it to death. Also, what’s the difference between welcoming and acclamating?
Do you want to kill a puppy? No. He however needed to, did so, and accepted the consequences of his actions. Not easily or lightly done, pain and misery will be felt by both. The pain however will be larger if the food rations do not last, interfere with economic liability, or become unsustainable. In that sense all would starve.
You have to accept that if this animal lives it will feed, it will grow and it will feed more. We disallow and ban killing of humans, this does not mean we do it to animals lightly. It is still murder, but one we must commit to survive.
You do not want misery or sufferinh, however it must be embraced in order to reach catharsis. You do not welcome it, however you will acclamate it. Or it begins to control you.
i mean, what way would be more accessible? Choking it? Slamming it’s head against the ground? Shooting it? (not highly accessible or necessarily legal)
Finding a suitably big rock and delivering a suitably heavy blow is about the most efficient.
… How would you prefer it were done?
Meanwhile kudzu is over here like… what trees?
I’ve read that kudzu is nutritious, comparable with potatoes, and is cultivated in China.
My dad used to cook it when I was a kid. Tastes like butterbeans.
Huh, I didn’t know that. Neat.
Goats.
Sweet home Alabama…
If you want mint & don’t care about other plants, then I don’t see a problem. Some people might consider its low maintenance effort a good thing. 🤷
So mint is highly invasive? I was wondering what the elite knowledge was. TBH my guess was that there’s a hallucinogenic plant that looks like mint.
There is actually a hallucinogenic plant that looks kind of similar to mint, but I think they’re referring to the fact that mint chokes other plants out and just sticks around and keeps coming back.
They spread and are really really hard to fully kill
Source: I have no idea why my mint is still alive. It’s waterlogged for half the year and neglected the other half
Its ability to choke out the weeds at my rental, thereby reducing the amount of weeding i need to do, is much appreciated. Also goes well with roast lamb.
Why are my neighbors mad? They have all the mint they could want now.
Exactly: neighbors can stay mad. Mint is cooler than neighbors arguably (& chemically).
Not to mention that mosquitos hate mint.
Also catnip, but with catnip there’s a 50% chance neighborhood cats will show up and roll on it until it dies.
(Catnip is a type of mint)
Bees seem to love the catnip that grows in my garden at least. I think last summer I counted 8 different kinds of bees enjoying it.
The cutest pollinator!
Thank you! Time to lure some cats to the yard.
Catnip brings all the cats to the yard.
And they’re like: meow and purrs
Damn right, meow and purrs.
I could teach you, but I got some shit I need to knock off a counter somewhere.
The abandoning of the rhythm is such a cat thing to do.
I’ve had a catmint bush for a few years now, and it’s topped out at about the size of an Australian spider.
I think the neighborhood cats keep it pretty well groomed. It’s very popular, even in the winter.
I did this once. Only way to get rid of it was to sell my house.
Tenants take note, give your landlord a lovely gift of established ground mint when you leave your rental!
You know what’s also invasive?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houttuynia_cordata
The last people to own our house planted this stuff in the ground. It’s also called fish mint, because it smells like fish when you cut it.
I once bought fish mint at an asian grocery store thinking it was regular mint, and it was quite the surprise when I tried it.
That must have been quite the shock.
But fish mint is delicious.
Wash the roots and snap them into little bits, toss them up with some diced onion and chili oil.
The leaves go great in salad.
I’ve tried it. Just not my thing. The taste is ok but I can’t handle the aroma.
That’s what that shit is? I though it was some generic weed I had a hard time getting rid of. Great. Another invasive to deal with. Just killed a tree of heaven the other day, too.
Your own private morsel of the sea.
Also ivy. A curse on whoever first brought English ivy to the Americas.
Can confirm, I’ve been waging war on the Ivy in my backyard and I’m definitely not winning.
Let’s switch, I try to kill your ivy and you fight my bamboo
It takes a real focused effort. Tear out as much rhizome as you can and cover the entire effected area in a smothering layer. I prefer cardboard or newspaper because inorganic root barriers were sent by Satan to destroy us, but it had to be a substantial layer. Hold it down with mulch and/or decent topsoil and watch it like a hawk. Sow native wildflowers the first year, something that will hold the layer together without requiring much maintenance because odds are high you’re gonna be back in there tearing it up and finding more ivy rhizome and there’s no sense destroying something you love. But you need something there because you’re also being assaulted from the air.
Birds spread ivy in their shit. They eat the berries, fly everywhere, and deposit noxious invasives wherever they go. You need aggressive natives to maintain the front line and keep those turd seeds from finding purchase. So you gotta be out there fortnightly to check for little English sprouts as well as hoping the subterranean menace is subdued.
When you have a year with no ivy bring in even more good soil and bury it good, then do whatever you want but never grow complacent.
This strategy applies to most horrible weeds but some cannot be reliably smothered and must be physically removed in their entirety so rent a Bobcat or something and try not to cry.
ivy vs mint, deathbattle rules, who wins?
My money is on ivy but there’s a chance they form a symbiotic mass.
that would actually be aweful
Copper nail or a little hole in a thicker wood and inject some bleach in there. It will kill it down to the root.
Mint
Mint everywhere.
Don’t worry just let my dad do the gardening. He killed the mint, the rhubarb, the blueberries, the redberries and the apple tree with his genius ideas!
I planted mint in a pot. And the roots went out of the bottom of the pot and between the tiles the pot was on, into the ground.
My buddy warned me about the mint the pervious owners planted, and I pulled it right away. It was right by our basement entrance so I frequently peer in and inspect for mint shoots. I think there must be a buried barrier or something (like landscaping cloth) preventing it from spreading outside the bed it was in. I found a small sprig 4 years after pulling everything I could find.
I planted some mint in a large pot, at an off-grid shack on a New England beach… two decades ago. That shit is still thriving to this day, despite zero maintenance and/or care and numerous harsh winters!
Pair it with raspberries
Just put them in raised beds and then mow right up to that bitch, they wont make it out.
I’ve seen it grow low. Like thyme.
Mint is fine grass is the devil.
