Mint is the hardiest most invasivest shit ever and like I cannot stress enough how quickly and vigorously it grows. If you ever need mint just like root a cutting and plant it and give it some fertilizer like once a week and you'll have more mint than anybody could ever need for their entire lifetime

I transplanted a basketball sized mint plant into a bigger pot two weeks ago and it's quintupled in size with leaves the size of my hand. I literally do not know what to do with it. I offered like a pound of it to my weed dealer and you know what he said? nah he's trying to kill the shit growing around his house

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[–] DogThatWentGorp@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Deffo keep the mint then if they only go after it. Sounds like it's serving as a pest magnet and keeping the rest of your stuff cleaner if I'm reading right.

[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Maybe if it's not actually killing the plant but from my experience plant pests just tend to propagate exponentially.

[–] DogThatWentGorp@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago

Oh I let them kill the diversion plant. If I really want what that thing is growing I just get a second and put it somewhere else usually.

Different story at work where I have to make sure everything lives but at home I have this horrible looking nasturtium that I spray wayyyyyyy less on purpose.

[–] Omegamint@hexbear.net 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah I think I would need a ecosystem with natural pests to make diversion plants worth it and I absolutely don't.

[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I've had insects go absolutely ape shit on certain plants and imagine them waving their friends over, announcing that there's plenty to eat and the breeding orgy is at 5. The first hobby garden I ever tried there were I thinj mites on some bok choy that went down the row eating them to the ground one by one.

[–] WizardOfLoneliness@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

All my plants are fucking mite city right now but they seem to just be chillin in the dirt. There are seriously a lot of them though, the soil writhes

[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Put dish soap and water in a spray bottle and spray everything you can when the sun isn't on the plants and then hose them off. I forget what the mechanism is but the soap allows the water to drown them and they turn black in a couple hours.

[–] WizardOfLoneliness@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Bugs breathe through their skin and the surfactant qualities of dish soap suffocate them

[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago

Thanks I'm running on a few hours of sleep and the term was escaping me.