My partner never pays for any plants
Just sneaks a little pair of snippers into the garden section and takes a cutting
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2025
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You just reminded me that one of my apple trees is sprouting from the root portion so I have a good source of root stock
Anywhere offering to sell you Mint is a scam. You can download the image directly from the website.
It's a great distro and don't be shamed by elitists for using it. There's no need to switch to something more complicated if it does everything you need
Spreads like wild, I gave Mint to a group of kids and now they've all got it and are distributing it elsewhere.
Unlimited mojitos upon the first world
Of course the communists hatred of success extends to plants 
I feel this way about all spices. Oh also green onions can be harvested a billion times if done properly, you'll never run out. Thank me later
Yup, I have green onions growing in my kitchen window for easy access โ
They don't taste nearly as good after a while, since the onion flavour comes from sulfur in the soil which it utilizes to make itself too pungent for (most) herbivores to eat.
Eventually, in the same soil, the onion stalks will get milder and milder, until there's no more sulfur in the soil. Onions (not just green) grown in soil entirely absent of sulfur will be sweet (esp if the cultivar was sweet to begin with)
Mint is a good natural rodent repellent.
i like mint, can i have some
Ok but counterpoint why do my incredibly thriving hanging pots of mints inevitably become a home for massive amounts of aphids, huh?
I'm honestly just annoyed they love my mint specifically, haven't even had an issue on them on tomatoes, or other herbs. Spraying them because this is generally just the stuff I grow on my balcony and I can't be arsed to try and introduce predators when they won't stick around. LEAVE MY MINT ALONE
Deffo keep the mint then if they only go after it. Sounds like it's serving as a pest magnet and keeping the rest of your stuff cleaner if I'm reading right.
Maybe if it's not actually killing the plant but from my experience plant pests just tend to propagate exponentially.
Oh I let them kill the diversion plant. If I really want what that thing is growing I just get a second and put it somewhere else usually.
Different story at work where I have to make sure everything lives but at home I have this horrible looking nasturtium that I spray wayyyyyyy less on purpose.
Yeah I think I would need a ecosystem with natural pests to make diversion plants worth it and I absolutely don't.
I've had insects go absolutely ape shit on certain plants and imagine them waving their friends over, announcing that there's plenty to eat and the breeding orgy is at 5. The first hobby garden I ever tried there were I thinj mites on some bok choy that went down the row eating them to the ground one by one.
All my plants are fucking mite city right now but they seem to just be chillin in the dirt. There are seriously a lot of them though, the soil writhes
Put dish soap and water in a spray bottle and spray everything you can when the sun isn't on the plants and then hose them off. I forget what the mechanism is but the soap allows the water to drown them and they turn black in a couple hours.
Bugs breathe through their skin and the surfactant qualities of dish soap suffocate them
Thanks I'm running on a few hours of sleep and the term was escaping me.
You could maybe try immersing the plants with water for a few hours so the aphids die or leave and then try to prevent them from coming back with neem oil or pyrethrins if you're not afraid of pesticides (i figure there's so many carcinogens everywhere else why not spray a little poison on the food 
but my mint has basically 0 bugs on it, just all up in the soil)
I have some spinosad but it doesn't really work on aphids, gonna have to get some neem concentrate soon and just spray them off or something regularly for now. I just don't understand why they like the mint so much specifically, enough to get up to my high as hell balcony
i'd rather a yard full of mint then a yard full of poison ivy
I dunno it depends. My mom said they grow very quickly in our garden. I said they multiply so bad I heard people regret planting them because they are like invesive, she said no they don't grow that quick
They might honestly
No like for real, even when it was on my porch with not enough sunlight, this shit was constantly making runners and basically trying to bust out of that container. If you told me mint was genetically engineered to consume like some lovely smelling super kudzu i'd almost believe you
Once you plant mint, there is mint forever.
Even trying to contain it like in a pot will eventually fail.
At least it grows natively around here, so it just spreads very quickly, not invasively.
Mint Mobile?
No like actual mint the plant.
I must have the opposite of a green thumb because I've tried to grow mint the last couple years and I've never gotten it to grow. I hear people talk about the minty nightmare and my plant barely grows enough to make a single mojito
Literally just put it in some potting mix and give it a small dose of miracle grow once a week. Water it every day (make sure the pot drains through and it isn't just sitting in water though) and give it full sunlight
Idk what else there would be to do, that's all im doing
That's what I thought I've been doing, I dunno though. Maybe I'll try with a bigger pot, I thought I gave them enough room but I don't know much about plants. I'll give it another shot, maybe this year I'll get more than one mojito out of it haha
If it's filling up the pot put it in a bigger pot and it'll almost immediately take it over
How big is the pot now
I had it in what I thought was a pretty big pot, about the size of a 4L ice cream tub, it just grew super slowly to the extent that it took until august for there to be enough for a mojito
Dry it for tea it's all I drink in winter
I don't think i could drink enough fluid to use all the mint this single pot is yielding
I bought a house and put in a garden. It turns out there is a not very tasty/nice smelling variety of mint all through the lawn. It constantly creeps into the garden beds and I have no idea what to do at this point other than just keep pulling it up.
There are some varieties of mint that are really nice for cooking with or even just chewing on. The mint that sprawls across our community gardens is definitely not that kind.
That sucks, mine smells amazing and with all the fertilizer it's got these huge sexy leaves. I just don't know what to do with it because all i really use it for at work is souvlaki and like Cuban pork before i started doing the vegan stuff
I would plant it in my yard and just have a sexy ass mint yard but i feel like my neighbors would not like it when it inevitably sends runners under the road and driveway
We have anise hyssop, catnip, and henbit that all are really useful, but our mints are mostly just weedy.
Can I have some of your mint for my indoor planters?
I used to live near some woodland that smelt like mint for what seemed like miles. It's too dark for it to grow on the woodland floor beneath the canopy, but every large clearing and the banks of the stream and field in the centre was absolutely covered in it.
Around a decade ago I spent about 12 hours pulling mint from my father's side yard, being extra careful not to tear any roots. 2 weeks later I had a fill bed of mint again. Fuck mint.
And the tiny little bees love it