intothewildfire:

kihaku-gato:

dandelion-grange:

the-witches-tea:

I see some posts that go around that say that Mint is good for bees and I just want to say DO NOT PLANT MINT DIRECTLY IN THE GROUND. Either bury the pot or leave the pot on a porch. Mint is a weed and it will take over your garden, compete with your other plants for food and water, and grow from under concrete and rocks. 

I also hear oregano and catnip is like this as well. Feel free to add any more since its garden season for many of us.  

Catnip is a slower spreader and its roots aren’t as insidious. But yeah, mint goes from “lovely” to “out of control hellspawn” in about 3 seasons.

I’d vote on the “pot on a porch” route. Mint roots will keep going down until they find a route out as I’ve found in my previous (large) planter culture of them.

I put spearmint in a pot and did not bury it, but the roots found their way thru the drainage hole and now the bed the pot was in, is full of mint.  Just sayin’ burying a pot in the ground is not going to stop anything….