If you read my blog last year, then you might remember that I let my herbs take over the part of the garden that I was not using. Unchecked, the peppermint spread like it was meant to spread—everywhere. I remember just two years ago when this was a small plant that only used around 6 square feet of garden real estate. And before then, the peppermint spent years, a decade, struggling to survive. Now look at it; it’s living in a space that is around 300-400 square feet.
I need to start harvesting and drying peppermint now, every single day for two or three weeks, then I can pull its roots back to a little 6-square feet area, and plant the summer garden.
How tall is it, Donna? Anemone wants to scatter mint seed all over the yard to protest the no-digging rule, but I don’t want to let her if it’s going to be more than six inches tall. We harvest the mint we have growing in pots just about as fast as it puts out new leaves, so we don’t know how tall it will get!
It gets knee high, more or less, but definitely over 6 inches.
Thanks, Donna. Maybe I’ll let her do it anyway (I hate saying “no” to a Goober!) and see how it likes getting mowed once every six weeks or so. 🙂