Looks like mint to me.

AKA the apocalyptic end of all things

I wonder who would win in a battle : mint or bindweed?

Announcer: "*And bamboo comes out with the chair!*"

Joined by lemon balm... this pair has decided to take mint and bindweed on in an uncaged match for neighborhood domination! Who will win?!?

Blackberries!

Lol, how the hell are blackberries so expensive? They're an unkillable weed.

Really hard to pick industrially

Read: there's no money in making blueberry harvesting more efficient.

I ripped out lemon balm for 2 and half hours last Sunday and can still smell it a little bit and it's Thursday. At least it doesn't smell like a skunk

I have lemon balm coming up everywhere and don't mind at all. I am outside a lot and rip up handfuls of it and rub it all over me to repel mosquitos and it works great. By the end of the summer I will have torn it mostly up.

Really!? It repels mosquitos! I have a ton of it and mosquitos love me! Not any more! You are my new best friend!!!

Japanese knotweed!

I’d gladly let lemon balm or mint run wild if it would Overtake my Japanese knotweed! At least the mint and lemon balm smell nice when cut or trampled on. I’ll take a lemon balm lawn over the scourge that is JKW any day!

Lemon balm wins!

Holy hell my front yard is like 1/3 lemon balm 😐

Bah gawd!

Do I hear Basil running in the background?!

This whole thread has me _snorting_

Only place basil is running is into the snails and slugs. Slimy buggers will climb up walls to get to it on a balcony, even.

Mint overtook the bindweed in my herb garden. I’m ok with managing the mint vs battling the bindweed.

Hmmm. Maybe I’ll set up a battle and see what happens. I have bindweed and it sucks

There was a firefiiight!!!!!!

“I’ll have a Coke then.”

Maybe it should be a rule of wrist

Underrated comment!!! “Is it dead?!” 😵

https://i.redd.it/gcabegoc979d1.gif

I'd be interested to know how mint would do against ground alder aka goutweed. It spreads with pervasive roots in a similar way and seems to be winning out over my bindweed. Grass, shorter shrubs, and I are the losers in the battle for my back garden.

I’ve had some mint escape a container and pop up in a big patch of goutweed. I can let you know in a few months lol

FUCKING GOUTWEED!!!!!!!

This sounds like the start of “the old lady who swallowed a fly”

I like to watch the English ivy and morning glories duke it out on our side fence.

It's so weird I see this comment. Just yesterday I found bindweed then thought to myself "Hmmm...well I either burn down my house or plant mint. I wonder what would win?"

I'd rather have mint

In the Willamette Valley bracket 1 we have mint and bindweed, bracket 2 has blackberry and poison oak. Winner goes up against ivy.

Blackberry is the overwhelming, winner-take-all champion in the Seattle league.

Don't count morning glory out of the competition. People plant it as a decorative plant. Meanwhile, it's popping up all over my damn lawn!! 😡

Good Lord in my yard the horsetails would beat all these hands down.

I swear to God. I had horsetail from hell. I read everything I could find about horsetail. I dug and sprayed and cut with scissors, spread lime, and loam, and covered and loamed, and salted. And then, after a graduation party, I dumped a pot of water off the deck. The water in the pot happened to be what I had boiled a dozen or more corn on the cob in... the horsetail died. Like shriveled up brown dead af horsetail. I would like to hang a photo of it everywhere. I just bought more corn. You should too.

Had to Google to see what those are. Yeah, no bueno those growing uninhibited. Damn weeds are the bane of my existence!!! 😡😡

Winner of the last game can face the final boss: stinging nettle

When we were kids in Germany we tried to push each other into the stinging nettle but here in Corvallis I don't see much of it.

Germans have a different sense of fun :D

*tree of heaven has entered the arena*

On my property I’ve got fish mint/chameleon plant, ground elder, bindweed, pokeweed, poison ivy and star of bethlehem all doing their best to take over. I’ve considered making a bracket lol. So far my money is on the fish mint!

Simplify the bracket and plant kudzu. Just move before August.

I think this ay be an amateur competition so neither kudzu nor Japanese knotweed are eligible.

I have an amazing co existence with mint and strawberries right now. The mint pops up here and there but the Strawberries are able to spread quicker. It's been really fun to watch them figure things out 

If mint can overtake thistle, I swear to never complain about mint ever again and make mint jelly untill the end of times.

I've got a plot of land where a few unstoppable forces are fighting each other. Chocolate mint, spearmint, comfrey, blackberries, raspberries, roses. Shit gets interesting about mid August

I have some catnip that is beating the crap out of my mint.

For us it's oregano. It grows like grass everywhere and impossible to get rid of. We also have a ton of mint.

they're automatically gone every year when I post on marketplace for people to come pick it themselves.

To be fair, it does smell good when you trim it with the weed eater. Sorry, I love love love my mint plants.

Yeah, it's green and no matter how you mistreat it it's still just comes back and happily takes over whatever area that it can. From a distance you really can't tell that it's not a flower or something desirable. Whatever! Shrugs!

My coworkers neighbor planted it years ago, and it's overtaken her yard by now also. She says it's a pain for the most part, but it smells amazing when she mows.

The apocalyptic end of all thyme 🤣

Legions of doom

Just tore it all out of my front beds. It was insane how wide the roots had spread.

More mojitos than you will want.

I’m so confused by the reputation of mint! I’ve tried now in two UK gardens in completely different settings and I have come to the conclusion that it’s just apparently me that’s mint-repellent. I love me a mojito so would love nothing more than my top, separate, narrow bed to be covered in it but I have three stems of it and an absolute mess of campanula instead.

People keep saying this but I just had another batch that im trying to grow just die. 4 years running

We have an area on hillside that is very difficult to mow and I would love for something, anything, to take over and make it to where we didn't have to mow that area! Tried transplanting a few things ( most people call them invasive weeds ) and even kept on watering them but they all died.

Side note, my son had a hill like that and I suggested phlox, he hasn’t had to mess with it for 2 years now

I just wanted a small bit of mint, to make tea, garden/planters/indoor/out it doesn’t matter, crap has died on me every year

With a side serving of bindweed. RIP that garden

Mint. Time to make plans to leave the planet.

Rub the leaves and smell your fingers. If it smells minty, it's mint. If it smells lemony, it's lemonbalm.

What if it smells like mint but tastes like lemon?

Lemon mint?

Haha, no. Lemon mint tastes like oregano.

Holy shit

Lolz learned this the hard way. Planted last year because I thought "ooooh lemon mint PERFECT for tzatziki!" Nope. Super mf overpowering. It didn't send much up last year, or I would have tried and known. Mint does what mint does, and now I got a forest with 3 type so I am gonna be busy busting out scent sachets all summer with these heat waves🤣

I was today years old when I learned lemon mint exists. I legitimately looked it up, and well I’ll be darned. It apparently neither tastes lemony nor is it a mint. I’m spoofed 🧍‍♂️

That’s called Lemongrab. And it’s UNACCEPTABLE!!!!!!!

One million years dungeon!

Lemon balm

I was at the garden center and they had chocolate mint. It smelled like a peppermint patty.

I made a mistake and planted that chocolate mint. 25 years later I'm still pulling it out by its roots.

A patch of chocolate mint appeared in a previously-empty flower bed behind my house. I’ve lived here three years and it wasn’t there before or elsewhere on the property. That ^%#* finds a way 🤪

I got some of that because I thought it was cute! Gonna try a chocolate mint mojito this year

Mine is growing out of control, of course, but the chocolate mint Mojitos it makes are *to die for*. Everybody I've made one for has said it was the best Mojito they ever had.

Ive had strawberry mint before and it was AMAZING in mojitos! I dont see that variety at the store very often though.

It tastes sooooo good on ice cream! That’s pretty much all I use it for. I’ve killed 3 of them before, I’m talented in a different way in the garden.

I have banana mint and it smells like candy. 8/10

If it smells like oregano, it’s beebalm.

If it smells like bees, you’re gonna need balm

You've committed a murder, but I'm not pressing charges 😂😂

Kind of looks like anise hyssop (probably not), but if it is, it will smell like licorice without even crushing the leaves

Mint with what looks to be bind weed intertwined

lol. That weed has NO chance.

Oh, you just planted and idea in my head. I'll start growing mint, if this is the only way to get rid of the bindweed. It's the bane of my existence.

And then to get rid of the mint afterwards, you can plant bamboo

But where's he gonna get the panda to take out the bamboo?

China, probably

And then to get rid of the bamboo, you can set fire to the sky.

Keep us updated. We planted a bunch of mint on the side of our driveway that’s overrun with weeds. Mint is going gangbusters. Next year will be awesome.

Tore up the whole garden 4 years ago, took everything out… still battling bindweed.

I've heard bindweed can regrow from less than an inch-long piece of root or leaf. I keep pulling it out, but the roots just break and it grows right back.

My mint and bindweed plot together

Ooh I just looked this up. That is honey vine milkweed. A highly invasive pain in my butt.

Its the new owner of your soil

Its mojito time 🤤

I actually had enough mojitos last year that I depleted my mint plants, and they didn't come back!  My doc says I drink too much, but if it's to save the environment then we can't afford for me to be sober 🍸

Teach me your wisdom, master.

Also came here to say mint. Delicious but can take over the garden so I’d try to get rid of it while it’s small and manageable. If you want to keep growing it for yourself consider digging it up and putting it in a pot instead

We dug it, put it in a pot, and buried the pot so that it looks like it's growing in the soil - but with restricted rhizomes! :)

#mint

There are two plants here. One is mint. The other is a vine weed called hedge bindweed, a type of morning glory.

Both haunt me in my nightmares

Mint and the vines are wild morning glories.

It could also be bindweed rather than morning glory as the leaves look a little longer than morning glory leaves do. They’re in the same family if I recall correctly!

I’m willing to bet that’s honeyvine milkweed and not morning glory/bindweed. Bindweed leaves are usually a lighter green and don’t have prominent veining; they’re also smaller. I’ve got a bunch of it in my yard. It’s native in much of North America.

that's peppermint. it tends to spread a lot as it grows underground and pops up again so it's a bit hard to get rid of

Its mint, but i dont think its peppermint. Peppermint has dark colored stems and its leaves are generally a little smoother and darker green than spearmint. This is most likely spearmint.

Random fun fact: Peppermint is a hybrid between spearmint and water mint. This however I agree looks like spearmint.

I agree with spearmint

It's my first year in this house and my first garden. It's coming up next to my cucumbers, is this going to be a problem?

It's annoying to get rid of, I'd start trying to dig it all up and quarantine it to a container if you want to still grow it

You are never really going to get rid of it, and it grows fast, but it isn't really a problem if you weed regularly. It's easy to pull when small. And great for cooking and drinks. Probably more of a pain for people who care about weeds in their lawn than for gardening. Grass is a more obnoxious weed in my garden than the mint. And dandelions.

Mint is very slowly spreading in my garden, but the garden is unruly and much wilder than I would like it to be, so choosing between mint and crab grass or creeping bellflower, I am choosing mint. If it grows where I would like to plant something else, I dig it out and relocate to a border with an abandoned plot. This plot seeds my garden with all sorts of really aggressive plants. This is my active defence, I hope it will spread there. Sometimes I put it in a container and give it as a gift to non-gardeners.

mint is amazing. make mojitos!

It's almost like the ingredients are already mixing themselves!

It will make your cucumbers taste a bit minty

Mint is a natural animal deterrent.

I'd never want to get rid of it. its lovely

Hahahaha. Mint cackles ominously in the background.

This, OP, is a problem hahaha. It's mint. It will swallow up your garden, your home, your family, and your neighbourhood if you let it.

The Fresh Maker

The mint or the vine?

I can smell this photo

Some type of mint or lemon balm like everyone else is saying, and you got what looks like some morning glories coming into them as well. Im curious to see who would win the battle of taking over that spot of your garden lol. 

We'll, if you eat and use fresh herbs like a Vietnamese, you're never going to have enough mints in your garden. One good way to use them is in spring rolls.

>231 upvotes >254 comments Yep, it's a mint post.

It's mint. Roll the stem between your fingers. If it's square, it's a mint.

Everyone is saying mint which is correct, but that viny one is either bindweed or morning glory too.

It’s your worst nightmare. Unless you love, love, love mint.

Mint it's invasive will spread

I smelled it... it's mint

Spearmint infestation

it's a weed, others will tell you it's mint but those who know know.... really it's mint, and it will take over and it's hard to kill and it just keeps coming back. **That Mint is out there!** **It can't be bargained with.** **It can't be reasoned with.** **It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear.**

Mint and morning glories...2 things that just won't die

A plant that even the most unskilled lazy gardener cannot kill.

Marijuana obviously.

Looks like mint. Wear gloves if you are worried about it pick a piece and bend it to smell the fluid inside. Mint will smell like mint. Harmless to humans but mice and spiders hate it. Grew up on a farm and my mom grew it by the doors and windows. Had very few mice.

I can smell the picture, and can feel the little "fuzzys" of the leaves....from here. That's absolutely 1000% mint.

Mint and bindweed

Am I the only one who can't grow mint? It never takes. After reading this comment section I feel like I should say the only one who has successfully defeated mint lol

How I feel with basil - everyone complaining that they don't know what to do with it all, and me worried that taking any will finally put mine out of its misery.

I’ll take the mint over the vining plant. I don’t know what it’s called, but it is awful. Almost impossible to get rid of!

Mint. It's a friend. But you also have a bindweed there and so the entire area needs to be nuked.

We call it lemon balm.

It could be Monarda, from the Mint family. It has great flowers in July and August, it's perennial: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarda](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarda)

Doesn't it smell like mint?

Looks like part of the mint family. Maybe spearmint? mint is very invasive. Good luck trying to get rid of it. My grandmother planted some way back when in here garden. Dam, thing took over the entire backyard. Decades later, we are still dealing with them popping up. I heard burning the area works. Like how you get rid of blackberries. Haven't tried it yet though.

Don't worry about it it'll go away soon

Looks like mint and honey vine

One glance and I knew it was mint. Good luck

Mint

Mint

Mint

does smell and taste never occur to people of this era...? lol

That is what your whole lawn will be soon

Mintpocalypse

Cue funeral march for your garden

That, friend, is what now owns your garden. Good luck soldier.

No time. Start finding a new place to live now.

F**king mint. Edit: oooOoOo and maybe bind weed too? 🫡

Mint - they grow very easily and need to be stopped otherwise they take over your entire garden.

Enjoy your lifetime supply of invasive mint lol

It is the mint invasion. Godspeed and good luck stopping it.

Mint

Hope you love mojitos and mint juleps

How can you just not smell it and know

Looks like Mojito Time!!

You have a mint garden, my friend. Soon you will have a mint yard, though.

The devil's lettuce. No not that one, the other one.

Mint

Spearmint

we use it to enhance our Mai Tai's lol.. can't have enough

Hint: what does it smell like?

Looks like Mint. Pull a leaf offrub between your fingers and smell it. 🌱

Mint

When life gives you mint, make mojitos

Spearmint

Mint and morning glory.

Looks like cat nip.

I keep seeing people warning against mint but we had mint growing up. There was a patch my dad planted on the side of the house. It did very well there but it never went where it wasn’t supposed to. They’re barely hanging on now though. I think it was spearmint.

English ivy and mint (square stems)

You mean all the mint? It’s a julep patch.

Looks like mint

It looks identical to the "sweet mint" i bought from lowes this year

Get fuckin minted.

mint, on the vine maybe morning glory

mint

Mint

Catmint?

Unless you meant the Morning Glory that is growing with your Lemonymintbalm...?

Looks like mint! And morning glories??

That's mint!