I found this information on a companion planting site. So if you yank all of your mint up, looks like you can put it to good use elsewhere, at least! MINT: Deters white cabbage moths, ants, rodents, flea beetles, fleas, aphids and improves the health of cabbage and tomatoes. Use cuttings as a mulch around members of the brassica family. Mint flowers attract hoverflies and predatory wasps. Earthworms are quite attracted to mint plantings. Be careful where you plant it as mint is an incredibly invasive perennial. We have found that placing peppermint cuttings (fresh or dried) where mice are a problem is very effective in driving them off!

Saturated, anaerobic as jean said. The herbs won't be ingesting anything that will be harmful. Not sure why you would want to water saturated soil. In addition to jean's suggestion, if you have a slope you may want to help yourself by putting in a French drain. Lots of transferable skills learned in this simple activity. Dan

Enough sunlight--yes. 1--I would visit a herb shop that sells mint and do some taste testing to decide which to grow 2--Yes a 5 gallon pot would be big enough, But you wouldn't leave them in the same soil forever.( Make sure your pots have good drainage. Cover any large holes with a bit of mesh screening.) I would dig and thin them out every sptring and add a little new topsoil to the pot. 3-- No roots out the bottom-- not if you thin and transplant every spring. 4--Yes you can put the pots in the ground--but only if you keep them in check 5--The only thing you'd have to worry about in your garden is if you let them go to seed. In other words if you thin mint the roots won't go so deep that the rysomes can escape from the pots. If you trim it back when it starts to go to seed and if you add a bit of new earth to your pots every year. Then your mint won't become invasive and will stay exactly where you want it. Don't do this and you'll have mint coming out of your ying-yang

Hi Neophyte. I'm the one who started this string. If you read down through you'll see there was some interest in a swap but not enough to really generate the enthusiasm to get one going. I think, as suggested above, for anyone who doesn't mind the drive, going to the Knoxville or Nashville swaps would work out best, at least at this point. Just my opinion. If there was one near me I would possibly attend. As Brandon7 suggested, those of us who don't want to make the drive, could do individual swaps on the exchanges page. I am going to dig up some Immortality Bearded Iris (large almost-white repeat bloomer) as soon as I get to it and I am more than willing to part with some. I don't get on the forum much but I will try to get that on the exchanges page or anybody can email me directly. Cheryl, never heard of a tradescantia called warthog. Do you have a pic? You might have gotten tradescantia from me. I have quite a lot of it. Do you have a pic or has it flowered? Tradescantia is very vigorous but I wouldn't call any I've had invasive. I would leave it for a while and see what it turns into. You could start a new string with - "warthog" tradescantia - as the title and see if anybody knows who would not necessarily have clicked on this string. Chris