[ferreter51]

This is our second growing season here.  We inherited a small herb patch which was totally overgrown with mint and it was also overflowing onto other adjoining beds.  Last year we dug out just about everything, roots and all and planted herbs other than mint.  By the autumn we were overrun with it again.  We're trying again this year and have given the bed another thorough digging and two applications of glyphosate but it still seems to be coming through.  Should we write off the bed this year and just nuke the new shoots as they push through, planting again next year or does anyone have any suggestions as to how to get rid of the stuff?  We like mint, but not an area 15ft x 6 ft of it.

[arugula]

I think you just have to keep plugging away at pulling it out. You will win eventually.

[TerryB]

I think you just have to keep plugging away at pulling it out. You will win eventually.

I agree just keep pulling it out.

If you want too grow mint it should be planted into a mint bed.
Dig a 2ftx2ftx2ft hole and line it with 5 2ftx2ftx2in concrete slabs.
This should stop it spreading.

[arugula]

Wow Terry, that's still quite a big patch of mint! I'd also be slightly concerned that the mint roots would escape round the slabs too easily in that situation, although it sounds as though you may use this solution?

I keep mine in a 12 inch pot which sits near my back door. Currrently it has two varieties of mint in it. Every couple of years I split the clump, dispose of the remains by planting in a bank we are trying to stabilise and that's plenty for us.

[MiklovesHerb(s)]

What species of mint do people grow and has anyone heard of mojito mint (Mentha x villosa)

I want to try some different mints!

[shokkyy]

I've got ordinary garden mint and apple mint. My garden mint has its roots somewhere underneath the concrete path that runs down the side of the garden, which is perfect because it seems to do very well there and gives me loads of mint, but never strays anywhere else. No idea how it got there though.

[Lulu]

I have normal garden mint, and chocolate mint and spearmint. And yes I think they all do taste different.  The chocolate mint is dark in the stems and has dark veins on the leaf - quite attractive.  They are however all in pots because its the only way to control them

[drmoonshine]

mint mint
and lemon mint


both in huge pots there doing very well atm.... dont really use any of it tbh wonder if there is any other use for it other then eating?

[Yorkie]

Cocktails 

[arugula]

Cocktails 

mojito mint (Mentha x villosa)

[peapod]

Cocktails 

Oh yes 

[evie2]

We found Pineapple mint, smelt lovely and pretty to look at, planted some round front and back ponds, both died