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Backseat Driver

(4,339 posts)
Tue Aug 4, 2020, 07:13 PM Aug 2020

Our complex's lawn maintenance was here today.

The guy using the weedwhacker whacked my whole row of herbs inside our patio fence! I'm now in mourning my fresh herbs. Guess he did know what a tomato was on the other side of the fence. Just damn! the last of my lush mint, rosemary, basil, sage, dill, cilantro, and stevia - all gone!

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Our complex's lawn maintenance was here today. (Original Post) Backseat Driver Aug 2020 OP
Ugh! I used to have to run out and scare them from my catnip soothsayer Aug 2020 #1
Catnip is a member of the mint family, so nothing can take it down The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2020 #9
That's a shame - hope it will grow back. The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2020 #2
Most of them barely know SoCalNative Aug 2020 #3
The mint will be back Nictuku Aug 2020 #4
Mint is the Cockroach of the plant world. Dem2theMax Aug 2020 #5
I have mint my 30 years deceased mother planted. Boxerfan Aug 2020 #8
I absolutely love that it brings back a memory of your mom. Dem2theMax Aug 2020 #11
Damn! elleng Aug 2020 #6
Some of the herbs came back: Backseat Driver Sep 2020 #13
I feel ya... handmade34 Aug 2020 #7
Damn. That's just tragic. trof Aug 2020 #10
when they come back or you replace them put some of those demigoddess Sep 2020 #12

soothsayer

(38,601 posts)
1. Ugh! I used to have to run out and scare them from my catnip
Tue Aug 4, 2020, 07:16 PM
Aug 2020

It did grow sensationally after they accidentally mowed it down though.

I hope yours do as well!

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,280 posts)
2. That's a shame - hope it will grow back.
Tue Aug 4, 2020, 07:18 PM
Aug 2020

People who do lawn maintenance should have some very basic knowledge of botany - at least the ability to distinguish weeds from cultivated plants.

Nictuku

(3,571 posts)
4. The mint will be back
Tue Aug 4, 2020, 07:24 PM
Aug 2020

I have some that overtakes part of my yard and I cut it all the way back each year, yet it persists.

Dem2theMax

(9,595 posts)
5. Mint is the Cockroach of the plant world.
Tue Aug 4, 2020, 07:31 PM
Aug 2020

No matter what you do, you can't kill it, get rid of it, make it go away.

Boxerfan

(2,531 posts)
8. I have mint my 30 years deceased mother planted.
Tue Aug 4, 2020, 07:40 PM
Aug 2020

It's her gift I like to think. And it always comes back after weeding . I have left it behind in 3-4 homes I've had prior to this one.

She was a mint julep kinda gal.

I just took one cutting and now it is established across my yard.

Dem2theMax

(9,595 posts)
11. I absolutely love that it brings back a memory of your mom.
Tue Aug 4, 2020, 08:57 PM
Aug 2020

How wonderful!

I grow tomatoes every year, and I always plant mint in a separate container, to keep the tomato worms away. They don't like the smell of mint.

Even in a separate container, the mint found a way to get into the tomato plant tubs. Now it's actually growing out of the ground. I am going to have mint in my yard for the rest of my life!

Backseat Driver

(4,339 posts)
13. Some of the herbs came back:
Sat Sep 26, 2020, 01:40 AM
Sep 2020

The guy missed the curry entirely; the mint has resprouted (impossible to really kill); the parsley returned, the dill is bushy now instead of two 1/2 ft stalks but no flower; the stevia held on. Gone entirely and never to return: the rosemary, the cilantro, the basil, and the sorrel. Backseat Driver wept for weeks but has been rewarded for the TLC and at least 4 quarts of tomato sauce and 6 packages of freezer pickles with garden red and green pepper. Also got a bunch of carrots I wasn't expecting. Even the celery stalks were tasty though very skinny and leafy. A couple more weeks, and we'll put the garden to bed and take the patio cushions in for my most favorite season, fall!

demigoddess

(6,640 posts)
12. when they come back or you replace them put some of those
Wed Sep 23, 2020, 08:33 PM
Sep 2020

iron butterflies and such on metal sticks all over your garden. The guys will come and ask you to move them so they can weedwhack and you can tell them that's your herbs or put a big sign and maybe police tape around the bed. that is what I would do.

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