h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

This stuff is a curse if it gets into your lawn! We moved into our current home and the front lawn was 75% yarrow - it has been a real pain to get rid of as it propagates by the roots - if you leave a tiny bit of root behind it won't be long before you've got a lawnful of the stuff again

Endless careful pulling it up, raking, and mowing has almost beaten it but it is still there, lurking, waiting until our backs are turned

Basically, if you are going to plant this and don't want it to take over, plant it in a biggish-sized plastic pot and plant it into the ground pot and all so that it is restricted. This also works for mint if you don't want that everywhere

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I had to plant mint in my garden, I couldn't gorw enough for what I needed in a pot.

I *don't* recommend this for anyone unless you really are going to use it all. I just like it because it's chocolate peppermint.

Nice entry!

Yeah, I think that's more with the wild stuff than the varieties you'd find on sale though. I'm hoping it is, anyway!

I got a wee scraggy bit from dividing a bit in someone's garden. It's a purple type I haven't seen anywhere else. Anyway it's getting a couple of leaves now, but it's anything but rampant. 'Course that could all change given enough time...