New take on oregano.
The best two options.
1) Don’t.
2) If you do, USE A CONTAINER.
I had some in my asparagus bed. Found out I had female asparagus plants, which don’t produce well but do provide lots of berries, which asparagus beetles like to over winter on. Since the point of the asparagus is to eat it, they are going.
I also had planted some oregano in that bed and I can not believe how it has spread! So I decided to dig it up. I think we need the backhoe. I have NEVER seen such a dense mass of roots in my life. I can hardly get the shovel in to get them up.
The female asparagus is not much easier to dig up. If you plant either of them, plan on them being there for a long time.
I am replacing the female plants with some new crowns that are male and supposed to be very heavy producers. They will stay.
I know I have grown oregano before & did not remember issues with it spreading .... until last year. My oregano was a year old & I realized it had developed into a ‘mat’ that was encroaching on my thyme & sage plants & had taken over the end of the raised bed ... about a 4th of it. I had to get out the pulaski & chop/pry it up ... turned out to be quite a job! I chopped off a piece about the diameter of a coffee cup & replanted - that little piece, in the last year, has now also spread all over. The bed will be abandoned due to our move so I’m not going to the trouble to dig the whole thing up again, but will probably take a small piece to the new place/herb garden AND I will plant it in a buried container to contain the spread!
Planting Oregano and/or any type of Mint with no boundaries...common Rookie Gardener Mistake. ;)
Borage too, Mom? LOL!
Got my ‘Lieutenant’ Broccoli yesterday; my life is now complete. They had no ‘Shisito’ but many of the ‘Ghost’ peppers. Ugh! You can seriously hurt yourself with those!