>>294248/out/ changes quite a bit. Around last summer/fall, there were tons of gear, camping, and hunting posts and hardly any on gardening. I was surprised when I found some gardening posts a few months ago and it shocked me that there were others who do this as well. It really depends on who is around or who is out in the wilderness so it definitely changes around depending on the time of year.
I got 'back' into gardening because of the tomato plant that I ended up taking care of that you can see in this thread, my grandpa came to visit and dropped off some plants so its kind of coming back stronger than ever to me, and I'm also doing this to prove a point to myself that I still 'have it'. Plus, having an advanced scientific background now that I didn't have 10+ years ago is also itching to be put to use as well.
>>PLEASE GOD DONT PUT SPEARMINT OR ANY KIND OF MINT IN YOUR GARDEN.There was another big reason that I didn't mention above for getting back into gardening... my parents' backyard turned into a MESS and it seems rodents (I'm guessing roof rats) destroyed the outdoor garden shed and its full of rat shit. I wanted to deter them naturally with plants so I saw that rats hate mint and spearmint which is 95% of the reason I'm growing it. The other 5% is that spearmint and tomatoes are companion plants. I did see that several gardening sites mention that mint can be "invasive" and I originally said 'ok' since I want those rats gone from this place so I can eventually clean the shed back up without worrying about them coming back... is spearmint and/or mint really that bad? From my design, you can see theres only 4 plants and they'd be on the bottom of the tier. Monarda/Bee Balm seems to be from the mint family and will be in a 1'x1' box at the top of the pyramid and is the flower in my picture. That will be grown specifically for attracting bees so I do plan to keep that one and in that space. Can two spearmint and two mint plants really get out of control?
