Got home late afternoon after my sister’s birthday train trip and it was stupidly hot, but thought I’d have a crack at cleaning up my balcony garden anyway. I didn’t learn that mint wasn’t a team player until shortly after I’d planted it and by then I was too busy/slack to do anything about it.  So it was long overdue to be relocated. It killed my basil and I am amazed at the brilliant fight my parsley was putting up to ensure it retained rights to its territory. So I picked up a pot on Saturday and went about with my trowel and secateurs to free my parsley of the mintyranny. As you can see from the photo, mint was attempting to put a stranglehold on the other occupants of this pot, literally.  Unwinding all the tendrils was not fun and I expect I’ll be pulling out little mint shoots for a while yet. Now the remaining mint shoots have been sent to a corner by themselves.  And basil has been freshly resown next to parsley. Round One. Complete. Next, replanting the kang kong, and cleaning up the hnia.

Got home late afternoon after my sister’s birthday train trip and it was stupidly hot, but thought I’d have a crack at cleaning up my balcony garden anyway.

I didn’t learn that mint wasn’t a team player until shortly after I’d planted it and by then I was too busy/slack to do anything about it.  So it was long overdue to be relocated.

It killed my basil and I am amazed at the brilliant fight my parsley was putting up to ensure it retained rights to its territory.

So I picked up a pot on Saturday and went about with my trowel and secateurs to free my parsley of the mintyranny.

As you can see from the photo, mint was attempting to put a stranglehold on the other occupants of this pot, literally.  Unwinding all the tendrils was not fun and I expect I’ll be pulling out little mint shoots for a while yet.

Now the remaining mint shoots have been sent to a corner by themselves.  And basil has been freshly resown next to parsley.

Round One. Complete. Next, replanting the kang kong, and cleaning up the hnia.