• seathru@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    118·
    5 months ago

    And it’s stupid easy to grow. Once you have mint growing in your garden/yard, you will never not have mint growing in your garden/yard/neighbors yard.

    • DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca
      43·
      5 months ago

      We once planted 6 different herbs in a rectangle planter including chocolate mint and spearmint, next year the whole planter and part of the one beside only contained chocolate mint.

      • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
        9·
        5 months ago

        Chocolate mint is especially evil in my book because it took over an entire area of our yard and killed off my grandfather’s raspberries that had been growing for decades and transplanted to two new homes ending their long lineage.

    • blazeknave@lemmy.world
      221·
      5 months ago

      It took over a entire section of our garden as a kid. I chewed that shit all day every day every summer.

        • Noodle07@lemmy.world
          4·
          5 months ago

          Made a herb planter pot thing for my mom for mother’s day a few years ago, dill still going strong even with the cat munching on it

      • seathru@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        6·
        5 months ago

        I can somehow kill dill. About the time it gets big enough to harvest some, it just bolts and dies. Even with a sun shade. I have to replant it every year.

    • humorlessrepost@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      5 months ago

      Once you have mint growing in your garden/yard, you will never not have mint

      Broadleaf herbicide keeps my neighbor’s mint infestation on his side without much issue. No worse than the violet, really. His kudzu is the only thing that causes a problem.

    • Gestrid@lemmy.caEnglish
      8·
      5 months ago

      Once you have mint growing in your garden/yard

      you will never not have mint growing in your garden/yard/neighbors yard.

      I love how the mint just spreads from your yard to your neighbor’s yard.

    • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl
      6·
      5 months ago

      I managed to kill mint that was in a big planting pot. We had a very hot and dry spell and it just didn’t come back the next year. I was flabbergasted.

      Also in my new house, animals ate the mint all the way to the ground. Never had that happen before!

    • JJROKCZ@lemmy.world
      44·
      5 months ago

      Ivy and brush formula round up appears to have done the trick on the patch in my yard some asshole previous owner spread. I don’t want a mono-culture yard but I hate both the smell and taste of mint. If there’s one herb I could do away with forever that would be it

  • super_user_do
    612·
    5 months ago

    Yes, that’s why my distro of choice is Linux Mint lmao

  • leftzero@lemmynsfw.com
    531·
    5 months ago

    What is it with humans and eating, smoking, or drinking any kind of leaf, seed, or other vegetable that has evolved a deadly toxin to avoid being eaten…?

    “You know what, this tastes a bit bland, let’s add some insecticide to it to make it spicier!”

    • Frozengyro@lemmy.world
      12·
      5 months ago

      We get bored and don’t like bland things. These plants developed extreme flavors to deter most animals, but humans like to have unique and different things so it makes sense

    • nikaaa@lemmy.world
      2·
      5 months ago

      I think spicy food is eaten in Spain, in India and in Thailand, because the spice acts as a disinfectant, which removes all kinds of germs (and therefore diseases) from your body, which is especially important in hot and humid climates, because bacteria spread like crazy there?

      • leftzero@lemmynsfw.com
        2·
        5 months ago

        That’s a good point.

        Also, spices can hide the fact that the food’s gone slightly off due to improper preservation (at least until it comes out one end or the other in a ballistic fashion, but then it’s possibly too late to pass the blame), so there might have been a bit of that, too.

        Still, it’s funny how we love eating stuff that’d kill or seriously inconvenience most everything else.

        We are weird creatures indeed.

  • Rose Thorne(She/Her)@lemm.ee
    361·
    5 months ago

    Don’t forget it’s nice relieving properties. Stuffed nose and a sore throat? Mint green tea with a bit of honey. It’ll help ease the discomfort for a time.

    Just be careful planting your own. Mint does not care. It will escape the pot, and next thing you know, there’s Chocolate Mint plants choking out the rest of the garden.

    Chocolate Mint is also a wonderful variety to include if you’re looking into an herb garden. You can get some different mint varieties going, make a nice blend for things!

    • Donkter@lemmy.world
      29·
      5 months ago

      Mint can act as a perfect addition to an herb garden or as a prank gift to a first-time gardener that you hate. So versatile!

      • Rose Thorne(She/Her)@lemm.ee
        14·
        5 months ago

        Even better as a prank gift, it’s so notoriously hard to kill and quick spreading, they won’t notice until it’s too late. Hell, they’ll probably think they’re doing a great job, since it’ll be thriving so long as they pay it the bare minimum of attention.

        I think some places do actually have some light restrictions in place, purely because it’s so invasive it’ll fight back against kudzu. It’s just about a rung below kudzu on the difficulty to completely kill.

        • The_v@lemmy.world
          5·
          5 months ago

          Mint gets quite a few fungal root pathogens. Once those set in it will wipe it out in a few years.

          I don’t recommend being near the field when they swath it. Clears your sinuses and burns your eyes.

        • state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de
          1·
          5 months ago

          I started with Mint because I just wanted it to work right away and it did. But lately I had severe issues with the VPN constantly reconnecting, weird keyboard issues and Teams killing the X session. Although I blame that last one fully on Teams, that fucking piece of shit. Plasma on Manjaro runs so smoothly and I finally have all the latest packages I need, so I’m quite happy at the moment.

      • tinkling4938@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        Last I remember it was based off LTS Ubuntu editions, so it could fall behind. Was awhile ago since I switched, but I remember having issues getting modern Bluetooth devices working. Had to override the kernel and manually download the chipset’s firmware files.

  • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee
    29·
    5 months ago

    This post brought to you by someone who never planted that cursed, evil herb in their garden

    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
      13·
      5 months ago

      We got “chocolate mint”. Yes, it actually does taste a bit like chocolate mint. Yes, it will take over your garden and be miserable to remove.

    • cordlesslamp@lemmy.today
      6·
      5 months ago

      Wait, why? Please elaborate, I’m planning to get some for my garden. (In fact, I already bought the seeds package)

      Edit: Thanks guys, you might have saved me from a lot of trouble in the future. I’ll just get some pots to plant the mint instead.

      • seaweedsheep@literature.cafe
        6·
        5 months ago

        If you’re going to plant it, plant it in a pot first, then bury the pot up to the lip. It will stay mostly contained and you won’t see the pot unless you’re right on top of it. Mint reproduces through runners as well as by seeds and the runners are so much harder to control. If you bury the entire pot, it makes it easier for the runners to escape, which is why you want that little bit of lip above ground.

      • wieson@feddit.org
        1·
        5 months ago

        The secret is to never want to remove it.

        It’s easy to care for it, you can totally neglect it and it still thrives. When you think it’s grown to much, you cut it down, it springs right back. You can rip it out, as long as there’s a 5cm piece of root somewhere in the ground, it will be there again next year.

        I’ve ripped out many a bushel and gifted to friends and still have my own mint. I like it.

  • OldGrayDog@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    9·
    5 months ago

    It’s also a great phone company, cheap prices, good service. There are just so many uses for it. I believe it also keeps mosquitoes away if you plant it near your outside sitting area.

    • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      There is a lotta love for Mint Mobile, T-Mobile’s MVNO (mobile virtual network operator). I’ve opted to pay more for service directly from one of the big players, though, since in busy areas MVNO traffic gets deprioritized.

      For the price, hard to beat the resellers! Prepaid even for those with the simplest needs.