How can I get rid of mint?
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Eroque022810
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Must I dig that up or can I kill them with something I can purchase?
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Hello! You can purchase Round-Up, but protect any surrounding plants before you spray. Instead of using a chemical, though, there are a couple of alternative options, which are noted at the online link I have provided below. Going forward, mint grows well in pots or containers without the risk of taking over your garden or lawn.
http://www.motherearthliving.com/gardening/green-patch-getting-rid-of-mint-39
Mint spreads very easily!!! You need to completely dig it up! You could transfer it to a pot to contain it!
Just be adamant and then reverse it.
Don't get rid of it all. It keeps rodents away! They hate mint.
Roundup is a neurotoxic chemical that is responsible for bee colony death, not to mention being implicated in human illnesses now. Without bees to pollinate our crops....food costs will begin to skyrocket. So please don't use Roundup. Weed b Gone is effective if you need to use a herbicide, but mint can easily be pulled up.
Roundup is now being found in breast milk. It should be banned. Pull up the mint and give it away.
We fill a spray bottle with 5% white vinegar and a table spoon of your favorite dish soap and spray what we don't want. Be careful as vinegar will kill everything that gets sprayed with it. After the Mint has died add a little bit of pearl lime to return the soil to neutral PH.
Wow no more round up! Thanks ,I guess it's not that bad and I hate rodents.
OK just an update we pulled and pulled just like I did with cilantro and guess what is far this year mint came back so we pulled some more and after no cilantro for one year the darn thing appeared. So without round up after we pulled up all the herbs and weeds we put down about 4 to 5 inches of cypress mulch since it naturally reply insects as well. I can't save mint we don't cook nor like it in tea or anything else. And it did not help with mosquitoes as for rodents they were never a problem and I hope it stays that way. Our first summer we had no mint so have only one idea of where it came from and that's bird droppings.