Happy mint spreads with great enthusiasm. It is best contained with solid barriers -- a foot or two of concrete works nicely. Aggressive pruning can slow it down, though, and then one has mint tea!
In some places here in Florida, where you end up using a version of crab grass to actually cover the ground (St. Augustine is a form of crabgrass, but very popular), mint actually isn't so bad.
But yes, it IS aggressive as all get out, isn't it? :)
Nature is willful like that, which must be why we've been trying to control it for thousands of years. We want the grapevines where we want them, dammit. :>
I spent at least part of three summers chopping back a clematis at my grandparents old house. When they moved out, the new inhabitants (who thought the grounds were kept by pixies, rather than adolescent boys) allowed it to engulf everything that stood still long enough (two trees, a phone pole, and an absent-minded relative)
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12/6/10 22:38 (UTC)Why is it bad to have mint?
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12/6/10 22:45 (UTC)(no subject)
12/6/10 22:55 (UTC)Tea is good. :-) There are many good things one can do with (non-overwhelming quantities of) fresh mint.
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13/6/10 10:14 (UTC)But yes, it IS aggressive as all get out, isn't it? :)
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13/6/10 16:36 (UTC)(no subject)
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