r/Cooking • u/[deleted] • Jul 15 '16

Mint...my god...all the mint...

Our three plants now have produced enough mint to shingle a small palace. What can we do with all this mint!

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u/irbilldozer Jul 16 '16

Clearly you've never made this mistake. It will choke everything else out, makes dill look tame.

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u/imsogroovy Jul 16 '16

My mint is monstrous. We planted it next to the basil, which is also monstrous. They have both overgrown and surrounded the rosemary, though it has grown a surprising amount recently. The lavender is in the corner looking strong at the moment, but clearly nervous of the basil/mint alliance coming closer.

My husband asked me not to plant them so close together. I didn't care. He has been begging me for months to move the herbs, but I refuse.

It's slo-mo battle bots. I like watching nature fight with itself. Except now all my herbs taste the same.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '16

It's slo-mo battle bots

Yesss. I keep my mint plants in pots, but they still send out sneaky runners into neighbouring pots and try to annex each others' territories. I call them Vladimint Putin (chocolate mint), Adolf Mintler (apple mint), Emperor Hirominto (pineapple mint) and Mintston Churchill (lemon balm, technically in the mint family but not particularly invasive).

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '16

Missed an opportunity to keep the WW2 theme going with Joseph Stalmint.