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[–] [email protected] 161 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Maybe plant some bamboo to help it

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I have some kudzu i could sell you

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (2 children)

And some blackberry, too! We could have blackberry mojitos made with bamboo muddlers.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 160 points 1 week ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 week ago (3 children)

How do you know I don't live in western and central Asia, east to the Himalaya and eastern Siberia, where we all know mint is native!?

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That's why I installed Arch instead!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Random thought:

What if people who post in internet comments claiming to use Arch are actually just one person who's a barely contained SCP?

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[–] [email protected] 101 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I obviously don't know... :(

Edit: Thanks for the answers - now I know! Where I live it doesn't spread that easily, and often when it's growing well it disappears overnight or in a matter of days thanks to caterpillars or grasshoppers. I didn't know it would grow out of control in other places.

[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 week ago

Once it gets going .. it's hard to get rid of

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I'm not 100% sure, but I think it's weed.

[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 week ago (7 children)

It's not weed, it's that mint is very aggressive in spreading.

I personally like the mint growing in the yard it makes mowing the lawn smell great.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh, so it's not weed, but it's a weed.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not weed if you can make mojitos with it

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It can still be a weed if you can't make enough mojitos to keep up with the growth.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Challenge accepted

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Weed as a classification is bullshit anyway. Iirc, it's whatever broad-leaf plants got killed by roundup, Monsanto declared 'weeds'.

Clover used to be a common part of American lawns

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

A weed is something you don't want to grow right there. It just means undesired plant life and changes on a whim.

Monsanto tried to categorize clover as weeds in their advertising because the plant killer that was used to kill broadleaf plants that interfere with grass lawns also kills clover. They demonized clover because it was collateral damage!

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I keep telling people to let clover grow, and half the stuff that's supposedly bad for their lawn is actually good for a healthy patch of dirt but someone invented a problem so they could sell the solution.

I've actually had landscaping people knock on my door and explain that half my lawn is weeds and they can take care of it for me on a 6 month contract or whatever bs...

Like Bruh my lawn is carefully cultivated to grow all natural native plants, specifically with the intent of boosting local insect and pollinator activity, there's a reason this half-are is the only place you see butterflies.

I'm not about to let some punk in headphones and a "Lastname Lawncare" t-shirt flatten all of this to 1/2in of plain green uniform grass. That's boring as shit. And bad for the environment. And boring. as. shit.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 week ago (16 children)

One time I did that, and was horrified to see that the next day the gardner removed it and disposed of the body.

It was my baby and it was literally choking itself in every pot I planted it because it would just grow until the entire pot was roots.

I now know that it had to be done, this is what it means to be an adult. To know that sometimes murdering a baby mint is for the greater good T_T

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Meanwhile kudzu is over here like.. what trees?

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Whats actually wrong with this? I feel like a lawn full of mint is infinitely better than the short grass suburb lawns that are so pervasive.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 week ago

The problem is not that it spreads. It is that it then suffocates other plants that can't handle staying near it.

Of course having the ecological wasteland of lawns isn't good either. You want to create the conditions for a balance habitat to establish. Mint can be an obstacle to this and be detrimental to the biodiversity in your garden, if left unchecked.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Also catnip, but with catnip there's a 50% chance neighborhood cats will show up and roll on it until it dies.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Bees seem to love the catnip that grows in my garden at least. I think last summer I counted 8 different kinds of bees enjoying it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

(Catnip is a type of mint)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thank you! Time to lure some cats to the yard.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Catnip brings all the cats to the yard.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And they're like: meow and purrs

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Damn right, meow and purrs.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (6 children)

You know what's also invasive?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houttuynia_cordata

The last people to own our house planted this stuff in the ground. It's also called fish mint, because it smells like fish when you cut it.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's gonna smell really nice when you mow your mint lawn.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

The dryer at my parents house vented into a mess of mint. Laundry made the backyard smell great.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (7 children)

When we bought our house 2 years ago, the previous owners had planted mint in the ground, despite having a raised garden bad. My wife and I spent an entire afternoon taking back mulch and digging to remove the mint. We built a 2nd garden box and put it over the top of the mint spot, but I'm already seeing bits of mint poking up from under the box...

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Also ivy. A curse on whoever first brought English ivy to the Americas.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (5 children)

IDK. I like the wild mint patch in our lawn. Want some mint? Just go grab some mint.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've planted mint, strawberries, and raspberries. But this is the last time I'll get to see how far they've made it. I planted them to go to war with the buffle grass, tumble weeds, and tree of heaven. I can still drive by in a few years and see how its going.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

This comment is a poem

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

If you want mint & don't care about other plants, then I don't see a problem. Some people might consider its low maintenance effort a good thing. 🤷

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

So mint is highly invasive? I was wondering what the elite knowledge was. TBH my guess was that there's a hallucinogenic plant that looks like mint.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

Mint

Mint everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

My buddy warned me about the mint the pervious owners planted, and I pulled it right away. It was right by our basement entrance so I frequently peer in and inspect for mint shoots. I think there must be a buried barrier or something (like landscaping cloth) preventing it from spreading outside the bed it was in. I found a small sprig 4 years after pulling everything I could find.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

Mint ~~plant~~ field.

FTFY

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

I planted some mint in a large pot, at an off-grid shack on a New England beach... two decades ago. That shit is still thriving to this day, despite zero maintenance and/or care and numerous harsh winters!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I did this once. Only way to get rid of it was to sell my house.

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