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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
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
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.
Goats.
Sweet home Alabama...
Also catnip, but with catnip there's a 50% chance neighborhood cats will show up and roll on it until it dies.
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!
(Catnip is a type of mint)
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.
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.
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.
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!
Mint is fine grass is the devil.
We put a few mint plants in a large concrete planter and it filled the whole planter in one season. It does keep mice, cats, and mosquitos away.
It's over there, next to my horseradish.
Fuck mint, I spend months trying to get rid of it from my last place
I planted a horseradish. Harvesting it often, don't see the issue.