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RE: My Backyard Garden - Fresh Food Grown with Love
There should be no possible way for mint to take over your garden. Just hack it back and hang the clippings up to dry. A few weeks later you have a great supply of mint tea. A few whole dried leaves in a cup with boiling water. Great stuff. You could also make mint flavoured sorbet or mint sauce or mint jelly. :) Another tip, if you don't want to consume the mint, is to scatter cuttings around your other plants in the garden. Beetroot especially likes the nutrients from the decomposing mint. I see you have beetroot growing right next to the mint. That will do it too. :)
@piratefoodco, I hear you! I do keep hacking it back and using it in all kinds of ways...Mint Iced Tea is one of my favorites and mint sorbet does sound refreshing. When there's just too much, into the compost it goes! I love how it returns year after year, yeah Mint!
Mint Iced Tea! Yum! We have just gotten ourselves a few sprigs of pepper mint. So by next year, we will hopefully have an abundance of that as well as the more common spear mint. You could also try. Iced water, fresh mint leaves, slices of cucumber and lemon. We call it 'Funky Fish' water. Because we first had it at a beach side cafe of the same name here in NZ many years ago. A great summer chiller.
I will be trying your "funky fish" recipe!!!