I ’m expire to share a secret with you … I grow mint in the ground . Gasp!I recently found out this is a very factious instruction . But I ’ll invite you to depend at the big ikon before jumping to conclusions .
First off , I ’ll invite you to consider this topic within a “ my - garden - my - choice ” frame of judgment .
My Testa-Mint
I love experiment in my garden , so I planted a clump of lot labor up from my parents ’ place into our “ chicken yard ” maybe eight years ago . The chicken kept it in hitch as they munch and scratched around it . And I used that patch of mint mostly for their bedding .
A few class ago though , we inflate the vegetable garden into that infinite . I half - heartedly dug up the etymon , get it on full well I ’d never get them all . We decided to plant a hügelkultur bottom full of strawberry decent over a part of it .
The mint lives on right with the strawberries and I ’m far from worried about eliminate it . Plus , my chance are about as good as decimate creeping Charlie . So far , the strawberry mark are holding their own , as long as I manage it .
Read more : scrounge wild strawberries for a springtime treat .
Embracing Mint
I ’m choosing to embrace the mint instead of fight it . For me this see like :
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I make out this way of gardening is n’t for everyone , or for every garden space either . But in some spaces and some gardener , it ’s a mate made in heaven .
I ’m embrace the chance to pay attention and render to serve the plants regain a Libra so they can coexist peacefully .
Mint does a wonderful job at coexist with Bronx cheer and blackberries , as it grows in dry shade where other industrial plant really shinny . And a few of my friends in reality produce it in the ground as a ground cover of sort . They prefer it to trefoil and pot .
Now , one home I wouldnotplant plenty is close ( like anywhere near ) your compost pile . You do n’t want those roots get motley in and spreading them all over your garden !
I ’d just hate for you not to experience the joy of mint — or bee balm , lily of the valley or other aggressive broadcaster — just because you ’re afraid .
Sure , plant mint in a sight , and sink it to aid winter . But grow fresh plant and learn from them .
I ’m in a kinship with my garden . There ’s give and take to this horticulture world , and that ’s the dish .
So , dare I ask … do you acquire mint in the ground ?
By Michelle BruhnForks in the Dirt
