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To: Zuben Elgenubi

I try not to use things like round up, because one of the reasons I started growing my own food was to avoid pesticide exposure.

Mint can become invasive, and I usually just grow mine in a pot, or would at least surround it with edging, and pull everything that appears outside the edging.

So it depends on you and your tastes. You could even just dig up the plant and put it in a pot and pull out all the rest of the shoots and plant something else.


10 posted on 04/26/2013 1:16:04 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: greeneyes
I just did a foliar feed on all of my stuff with the molasses/liquid fish/seaweed stuff I make with rainwater. We're expecting some rain in a few hours, so I was more concerned about feeding and protection from mites than in watering.

I lost some peanut starts to ants. Little barstids were eating the peanuts. They got the DE treatment, and that should fix their wagon.

Sunflowers are in. Tomatoes are just starting to flower. Tobacco is doing great/horrible depending on where in the garden it is. Squash are doing well. Herbs are slowly coming along. I mean SLOWLY.

Still eating asparagus and lettuce and spinach out of the garden.

All in all, much better than last Friday when I was a little under the weather.

/johnny

15 posted on 04/26/2013 1:24:42 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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