- Perennials are worth their investment - as long as you like them.
- Get the good hose. And the long one.
- Don't plant further than your hose.
- Miracle Grow works. Use the old fashioned type.
- Don't plant mint.
- Take time to teach your husband what your perennials look like.
- Round up kills weeds - and perennials.
- Round up does not kill mint.
- Wave petunias are great!
- New Gold Lantana is Great!
- Find a cool nursery - that is not Lowes or Home Depot - for real advise.
- Believe them when they say, "this will grow pretty big."
- Zinnias grow easily from seed - not much else does.
- Atlas Gloves are wonderful! (amazon)
- Slugs are not.
- Worms are good. Grubs are not.
- DON'T BUY THE JAPANESE BEETLE BAGS AND BAIT!!! (They lure all the Japanese beetles in the neighborhood to your yard)
- If you do buy the Japanese Beetle bags, they will come to the bag, but also to your roses and your trees and your flowers - before they get to the bag. They will eat your roses, your Crete Myrtles and Cherry Trees, more - and worse, they lay eggs in the ground that become grubs and will be back next year many more times than the first year.
- If you have done this, get the stuff to kill the grubs that are in the ground and Do Not fall for the Japanese Beetle Bags - again!!
- Plants I can't kill - easily: zinnias, daisies, purple coneflowers, lantana, salvia, blue daze, black eyed susans, and of course, mint.
- Don't fall for even Chocolate Mint.
- Don't step on bees.
- Plants need water.
- Mulch is good.
- Dogs, not so good.
- Can I say it just one more time? Don't plant mint.
Monday, April 26, 2010
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Oh, no! I just bought some really pretty mint :( How about in a pot? :)
Too funny! ONLY in a pot or it WILL take over and you CAN'T kill it. It does have a nice smell as you pull it up, but I had one bed that had so many mint roots in it, I could have rolled the roots back like a very thick carpet. It was headed for the neighbor's bed! It is a battle every year.
LOVE IT!! We moved from the last house to get away from the mint!!
LOVE IT!! We moved from the last house to get away from the mint - NEVER again!!
See! I told you - it is like kudzu. Except it smells yummy. It lures me in. I love mint, but not in my garden. I am embarrassed to say this isn't the first time I have planted mint. I did it to my parents house when I was a teenager and my brother hated me then. And I knew from that experience that round-up couldn't kill it, but I just thought my brother was jealous.
UPDATE: I almost eliminated all my mint and couldn't believe I had done it. I missed that plant. But it still grew in one spot in my yard, so I have carefully replanted it in places that it can't take over. And now in the summer I add a sprig of mint to every bunch of flowers I cut. It smells heavenly. . . and we might have to sell soon.
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