On Aug 13, 10:48 am, Sheldon > wrote:
> On Aug 12, 10:08 pm, Mark Thorson > wrote:
>
> > Sheldon wrote:
>
> > > I don't like mint in anything but toothpaste and chewing gum.
> > > But I have so much mint growing wild that I mow it...
> > > it grows all along my creek too, I can probably pick it in
> > > hundred pound bales... feel free to help yourself.
>
> > There's a guy on eBay who sells steam distillers
> > of his own design, which seems to be a competent
> > design. You could use one of those to make mint
> > oil, though I don't know what you would do with it
> > unless you wanted to go commercial.
>
> > Mint is a rather aggressive plant, like bamboo.
>
> Mint is agressive but it seems to set it's own boundries, it spreads
> just so far and stops very abruptly... I don't know why, perhaps the
> soil, perhaps it prefers wet, it seems to grow wherever there are wet
> areas.... I know I've just mown over a patch by the aroma, it
> deodorizes my mower.

I guess I've never given it a large enough space for it to find it's
boundary. You're right about the wet, tho. A friend gave me some of
her mint years ago, and it never amounted to much after the first year
(when I was watering it to let it settle in). This year it's been
rain, rain and more rain, and I've got a bumper crop.

maxine in ri