How can I get ride of the plant Spearment it's like a weed in my garden!!?
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Mint is a VERY invasive plant. I had a 1'x2' plot and the next year it was at least 5'x5' and the next it was 20'x20'!!. If you need to kill it, I would use the herbicide round-up. If in the future you want to have mint in your garden, keep it contained. One way to keep it contained and to have it year after year is to cut the bottom of a plastic pot out that is at least 10" deep. Bury that pot with the bottom out of it and have 1" of the top of the pot showing. Plant the mint inside of the pot. The root won't go deeper than 10"
Cover the plants so they can't get any sunlight.
It IS a weed - and absolutely miserable to get rid of, I'm afraid. About the only thing that worked for us, when we made the mistake of planting it, was to dig it all up, roots and all, and refill the hole that was left behind with fresh soil, etc. Round-up or some other all-purpose herbicide would probably also work.
For future reference, if you actually ever WANT to grow mint again (although, once you have to fight to get rid of it, it sort of loses all of its appeal.), I have heard that if you plant it in a pot, and then plant the pot in the soil, it will keep the roots contained and the mint will not spread nearly as bad.
I hope this helps - good luck!
Argh! Mints! I unfortunately planted SEVERAL kinds in my herb garden years ago, and I still battle them every year. Pull up what you can or use an herbicide on them. I even tried planting them in pots. Fat lot of good that did me! When I dug up the pots, the roots had grown through the holes in the bottom and out the top. I still have to spray that area occassionally too!
I grow spearmint. And chocolate mint. And yes, they are invasive, aggressive, and frustrating. I plant them in their own separate beds. To rid a bed of mint, you must spray with an all-purpose plant killer, dig up the entire bed, wait a month for more of the little suckers to come back, then spray again and dig up again. Even then, you may have stragglers returning the next growing season. Pull up the stragglers. Over and over again. This will require patience, but eventually you will be mint-free.
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