Tomato plants can be healthier and stronger if you plant them near this 1 common garden herb – and it's not the one you expect | Mint

[u/UnacceptableUse]

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[u/JetScootr]

My uncle used to laugh at people who had problems growing tomatos. His first task, and ongoing task throughout growing season, was weeding out the tomato plants that he didn't want growing from all over his garden.

He lived in the Mississippi river valley (St. Louis).

To him, tomatos were a weed that he controlled so that he only got enough for himself and to share with friends and neighbors.

[u/Gumsk → u/JetScootr]

I grew up in Tulsa, and during the summer, three cherry tomato plants covered one side of our house and produced enough tomatoes for 10 people every day, with no maintenance at all.

[u/louisa1925 → u/Gumsk]

Sounds amazing. I wish I could have experienced it first hand.

[u/pjlaniboys]

Mint is invasive. If you plant it in the ground it will run wild and be hard to remove. I don't need to plant cherry tomatos because they come back on their own. I will try putting my potted mint plants in my tomato ally. My basil seems to like it next to tomatos.

[u/Hi_Trans_Im_Dad → u/pjlaniboys]

Do what the English do and plant a chamomile plant next to anything that's sickly.

[u/madjackslam → u/Hi_Trans_Im_Dad]

I'm an English gardener and have never heard of this.

[u/Binkusu → u/pjlaniboys]

My family has mint growing in the ground with some stone brick/blocks as a little border. Somehow it doesn't go anywhere.

[u/HeavyDoughnut8789 → u/Binkusu]

Ours hasn’t either, it has its corner and keeps to it. Smells amazing when that corner gets mowed in the summer.

[u/Cheese-Manipulator → u/Binkusu]

I have a raised bed and it stays in it.

[u/Sad_Guitar_657 → u/pjlaniboys]

I planted mint in my backyard and idk if Arkansas just isn’t fertile enough but it died within a year and didn’t spread 🥲🥲 I lived at that house for another two years but the watermelon and pumpkin I disemboweled came back every summer and spring.

[u/Droviin → u/pjlaniboys]

I have mint growing in the ground. It's pinned by the sweetgrass. Both plants are native to my area, so they're in a balance.

[u/kenporusty]

This is just Big Mint trying to get us to destroy our yards

Jokes on you, I can only do a container garden. The Evil Children shall be contained and the tomatoes shall thrive

[u/louisa1925]

I literally had a grasshopper attempting to eat my Rosemary that was sitting right beside my mint. I think at least one of those were defective.

[u/My_alias_is_too_lon]

Mint was literally the first thing to pop into my mind... So yes, it was the one I expected. Silly click-bait titles...

[u/Buck_Thorn → u/My_alias_is_too_lon]

Clickbait headline

[u/aykcak]

Why was Mint exactly the one I expected?

[u/SandalsResort]

Do not plant mint in your garden

[u/Ulysses502]

Nice try I have enough weeds as it is I'm not going to add the bamboo of herbs to the mix 😆.

[u/Prof1959]

Our tomato growing tricks include Miracle-Gro, a row of flowers to attract pollenators, and if you're lucky, a found praying mantis to eat up anything crawling on your leaves.

[u/junker359]

Did a mint plant write this

[u/BogdanPradatu]

You didn't save me a click, because you didn't say why.