I don't understand why people act like having a lawn of mint is worse than grass. Seems like it requires less maintenance.

Well they're not dead so you're already doing better than me.

Wait...

That’s so cool

Unless all you want to harvest is mint, it's not a good idea to plant mint in the ground. It takes over the whole field.

You should make a pi

Let me get in on this. The previous owner of my home planted Garlic. There’s no grass in that corner of my yard now. Just garlic. It escaped the garden bed.

I've got privit, onion weed, rust weed and bamboo all fighting it out in gladiatoral combat

And winners reward will be acid ans fire followed by a salting of the earth after which the soil will be evacuated to the clay level before it is dumped in my neighbours yard (where all of these fuckers came from

I used to have that. Pretty sure our neighbor planted it to try and sabotage us because our yard was a mess. Fuck you Jerry. On the rare occasion that I'd mow, it smelled amazing

If you bought a supermarket pot you need to separate it and put it into a bigger pot. Otherwise it will cannibalise itself.

It’s going to cover up all my regular grass that I can’t do shit with and benefits no one!

If it only replaced regular grass, it would be fine. Problem is, it'll choke everything in its path, including parsley and roses aaand I hope you won't miss that chamomile patch, because it's now mint.

Mint is extremely hardy, isn’t picky about soil type, spreads quickly, strangles and overtakes whatever is growing with it, and reproduces from the roots. If mint ever goes into the ground, your entire yard will very quickly be overtaken by it even if you start ripping it out as soon as you see it. It’s basically an invasive weed that happens to taste good. Anyone who intends to grow it will keep it in above-ground pots instead. But even then, all it takes is a small sprig landing in the grass, and suddenly your entire lawn is starting to smell minty when you mow.

I had a potted mint in my parents backyard years ago. It grew through the bottom of the pot and started to invade the flower bed. Since then, my parents have drowned the entire bed in weed killer, pulled up everything they could find by the roots, and then put down a tarp and bark chips. Every year, some more mint pops up through all that.

Not a gardener, but I've heard people say it grows like a weed and we should plant some on mars

I think most people would be happy with your luck with tomatoes

Mint is succeptable to all sorts of fungal pathogens. Some pathogens like fusarium can remain in the soil for over 30 years as well.

BTW, experienced gardner here and I planted my mint in the ground. There comes a point where you no longer fear it and can control it.