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Would peppermint hurt other plants?

I wanted to grow some peppermint for tea and mint juleps. so I put two plants in containers on my front stoop. To make it look prettier I added a few white petunias to each container. After a bit some wild parsley started to grow there as well, which looked nice so I left it in. Now the petunias look miserable. They're thin and weak. I pulled out the wild parsley, but could it be that the peppermint is choking out the petunias? I try to keep the peppermint trailing down the back of the pot and away from the petunias, but maybe the peppermint's root system is causing the trouble? I know peppermint can be a hassle. Any advice from the great gardeners here would be welcome!

Update:

Please note, I stated that this peppermint is in a CONTAINER with the petunias. It is not in the ground in a garden. It is in a freestanding container. With this point in mind, is it likely that the peppermint is hurting the petunias (root tangle or something)?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Yeah, it's definitely the peppermint. We grow it in our garden. It is so resilient, and that can be a bad thing.

    Plants in the mint family send out runners to grow new stalks. If the runner has no space to grow, it will choke out the other plants that are crowding it. You cannot grow it near anything else. Ther is nothing you can do, except grow the petunias in another pot.

    And on another note, don't EVER grow other herbs near it either. my mum had a herb garden one year, her first ever. She put oregano, parsley, basil . . . and mint. And soon enough, none of the herbs were usable, except for the mint. Why? Because everything took on the smell and flavor of the mint.

    It's a great plant to have, but AWAY from other plants.

    Source(s): Experience =)
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    Lv 4
    5 years ago

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  • 1 decade ago

    it's no trouble about peppermint but the container can hurt petunias, petunias a special plant, u may be take a ultra violet lamp and dry machine as same as petunias habitat.

    gbu

  • Rich Z
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Mint is very invasive. I grow it in a big pot (about a foot in diameter). It grows tall and does not cover up other plants or send runners into their center because it is bound by the sides of the pot,.

  • 1 decade ago

    having a peppermint plant in my garden, they do need their own space. they grow very tall and grab a lot of space. that's why they need to be alone. as I would say, they do not share their space with any other plants.

    Source(s): go to garden guide.com and it will tell you it needs a lot of space.
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