[CH] Mint? Epsom salts ?
Andie Paysinger (asenji@earthlink.net)
Sun, 21 May 2000 12:47:19 -0700
Where did you get your Epsom salts? I wonder if you have a different
kind than the stuff I use.
I have several varieties of mint that have "escaped" from the confines
of buried supersized pots.
In fact some shoots have popped up 25 feet away from the mint patch on
the other side of a paved area. I pulled up the shoots and a runner
disappeared under the paving. The mints started out in isolated
containers but have colonized each others pots so there is a variety
growing in each pot.
Apple mint, Chocolate mint, Horse mint, Spearmint 'Mint the Best',
Ginger mint, Peppermint, Lemon mint, Curly mint, Pineapple mint,
Moroccan mint and Mountain mint. I am letting them fight it out among
themselves. (Ever read day of the Trifids?) I harvest it by the bushel
and a day later you can barely see where I cut it. My yard man mutters
to himself whenever he has to trim it back, and he swears it has
destroyed 2 pop-up sprinkler heads. He finally put in an extension to
bring the sprinkler head up 30 inches above the ground level. Anyway, a
couple of weeks ago we were mixing some of a "conditioner" we pump into
the ground for the fruit trees which consists of a mixture of things
including Epsom salts.
The table shifted and a carton of the stuff tipped over and a couple of
cups landed in the mint patch.
So far it has had no effect that I can see. After reading the post this
morning I went out and looked again, no change.
Perhaps because the soil here is so full of alkali salts my mints have
become acclimated to chemicals.
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