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've planted mint down by the creek for erosion control and it continues to
spread over the years. But it does the job it was intended to do. We have
really abrupt water rise due to storms up in the mountains.
Janet