I put mint on ant hills and they don’t like it and leave...albeit farther away haha, but still not in the spot where they were originally ☺️ Makes me feel like I have some sort of control over them 😁 I love this video and all your hard work!! Thank you so very much!
I leave my aggressive roots on the sunny patch of cement in my yard for an extended period of time, another option for the root parts for those that don't have municipal hot compost. The roots can also be hung outside to dry fully before using it as chicken bedding to prevent them growing.
Thank you, Angela. This is super useful. I've been growing mint in the ground because, like you say, it doesn't work in pots and I live the tea and the benefits for the bees and butterflies. Great to know that regular pulling helps it stay in balance with its neighbours!
This was so interesting!! I have my mint at the moment in large mussel buoys - I have just started developing my food forest, so I am going to put some mint around the garden now - and I just LOVE the smell when you walk on it - so I am going to have a mint perfumed garden. Thanks for this great video!!
Thanks Angela - very helpful. Mint is one plant I adore growing. I’ve just been really reckless and bought a LOT of different mints because I just love to crush and smell them- my little grandson is fascinated with them too. They’re all well labelled and I’ll be keeping a close eye on how they spread! I already know a couple of thugs that are going WAY down the field, avd I’ll add Swiss mint to their number.! I was planning to grow then round the chicken run too- hadn’t thought of using them as bedding. I guess another way of using the roots would be to let them dry out somewhere and then burn them, so the hens can use them as dust bath. I’m guessing some residue of menthol might be left! Looking forward to lots of mint tea varieties for next winter too!
Rodents, like most mammals can become "noseblind " to smell. Mints still work well repelling "bad" bugs while attracting "good" bugs. It is also a decent snake deterrent unless the snake was born in a mint patch 😊
Thanks for this, I have lots of shade, fairly dry and as a result my mint never spreads ENOUGH! I really wish it would grow more. Am jealous of those with a mint 'problem'.
I know, I can't make mint grow in the ground at all, but if I shove a peony leaf in the ground I get a new peony. I have figs that have survived several winters, but mint won't make it a week here on a zone 5b Montana mountainside.
@@MichaelBushey If you have anywhere on your property with a lot of moisture you could try water mint (since its a natural variety (that grows by rivers and ponds and in boggy ground) it is pretty hardy. Or you could try a variety grown in a more arid climate such as mints grown in the middle east and North Africa, Afghanistan, Pakistan...
Thank you, I have to dig up some stuff, quickly, before it's sprouted, lol. It's ok, things done without genuine consideration always take more work to remedy.
My friend gave me some mint along with many other starters. I forgot what half of it was I had so much. I just realized I planted the mint at the corner of my house in the middle of a flower garden. Will that look nice and full, bushy? Do you think it will be okay or did I just ruin my flower bed?
I screwd up and planted mint in my raised garden beds and it's out of control! It's end of July 2022 in Oregon and for 2cweeks I have dug up and pulled by hand tons and tons of these stubborn roots!! Please let me know how I can best get rid, kill these monster roots. Desperate 70 year old Oma (grand mom). Do t want to use chemicals.
I have a feeling one day you will be sick of mint. You will want to grow something else in that or those spots. Then you will understand what I am going through. I don't want my mint at all. I want something else in the ground where the previous homeowner planted mint.
that much work, for time everlasting, *plus* the risk to your neighbor? I'm sorry, but it appears you have thoroughly proven the exact point you were apparently trying to disprove. you say it's about balance; I challenge you to balance your desires with the bigger picture.
Jordan, I have been growing mint this way for 14 years. It’s a short and simple chore twice a year. It’s not a “risk” to my neighbors. Growing food is not “no work”, it’s understand and accepting the requirements and behavior of a plant before deciding if you want to grow it. I want to grow mint. It does terribly in pots here and even if it doesn’t get rust, it requires annual repotting and fertilization- just as much work as ripping out part of it. In a pot it requires watering daily, and I lose the benefit of having it as groundcover. I don’t need your “challenge”, my entire project here is looking for the bigger picture. Growing mint isn’t about “my desire”, it’s about how it is an important component of my overall design.
@@ParkrosePermaculture those are YOUR experiences, but you are trying to speak for EVERYONE. how about other soil types? you’re speaking universally. I personally could have helped you with organic fertilizer advice. you are quite essentially foregoing a basic enrichment of your understanding about soils and fertility and in turn growing a ridiculous amount that requires you to put intensive work into proper management, only to compost in-place what’s produced on top of it all. I do not condone mint in ground, and many will strongly agree with me on that. it’s lazy eco-negligence to create that risk factor
@@kennethmclean872 that literally is not the point at all. PS. are you aware of the number of times anyone has ever enjoyed a stranger calling them “buddy”? it’s 0. you’re trying to get away with condescension, even if subconsciously, just like she’s trying to get away with promoting poor horticultural practices to the masses.
OMG I didn't know mint is great for chicken coop bedding. Good to know. Luckily I use my goats/sheep to control mint from seeding. But I still dig out 50% of runners each year
I grow Chocolate mint too! Years ago I planted some generic mint and decided it was getting out of control and that I didn't want it anymore in the spot it was growing. Only took me a couple of years to completely get rid of it by using a combination of pulling it up and mowing when I didn't feel like pulling it up.
I want chocolate and strawberry mint. I'm still not sure I'm ready to commit to that much outside care. It would be easier to tend it growing inside and I'd love to smell it all year. My depression gets worse in winter and it would be so nice to have sweet smelling alive things I can make tea with to help with nausea.
I wanted to say thanks for sharing the link with me when I asked about mint in that food forest group on FB. I had to immediately comment when you said you were in Oregon! I am from the valley but now I live on the dry side of Oregon in Central Oregon! :)
I thought of another way you could remove the mint roots. You could put all of the mint roots into a 5-gallon bucket and create fertilizer. A fertilizer similar to those in "The Regenerative Grower's Guide to Garden Amendments" by Nigel Palmer. It should also break the roots down far enough to be cold composted.
Man, Oregon's something else. It's almost like God just marked out a section of the planet and just said "alright, literally any plant can grow here without human help at all" Except a slug ate my entire crop of freshly germinated mint seeds. That part blows. I love nature.
Amazing video. I’m new to mint currently I have 4 buckets of mint. I will plant all of it in a raised bed next year. Not sure how to store the buckets of mint in the winter. I have to do some research on that. Thanks for the video. God Bless you.
Great video but would have like to have seen your other mints especially chocolate and apple and to inform as to how and what its like to keep them in check also info about what NOT to have as a neighbour to them (chamomile for example).
You can submerge vegetation in a bucket/barrel of water until it decomposes. It smells, but can be applied to the garden as fertilizer or added to a compost pile.
I love how people will say this is "too much work" 20 minutes twice a year. YET FREE MINT!!! So so worth it. I am sick of having mint in a pot. I am putting it in the ground.
you just blew my mind. but im still growin my mint in a pot. its my first year and i already got two varieties and dont randomly want them all over the place
Didn't know about mint struggling in pot, that explains why mine isn't doing well. Was afraid to plant it due to spread. Wow that is a tall mint. Thanks.
I love your realness, your non-dogmatic-ness, and helpfulness with mint. if you visit Austin tx, hit me up and let’s have a glass of wine together, you can reach me at my website by the same name :)
I'm having healthy sweet ment but it doesn't smell and no test as mint should be also not strong smell as its lost the smell ... is there any solution?
I grow mint in pots and have no issues 🤷🏻♀️ & i’m a little perplexed at the title and focus of the video because it’s about how you can successfully grow mint in the ground when in fact, you point out all of the reasons why you really shouldn’t… a 1/2 inch rhizome can cause more to grow…. & surely you miss some digging around trying to find it … Why not seal off where you want to grow it with a tarp or something…
