What To Do When An Invasive Herb Takes Over Your Garden

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Tips about how to keep one herb from destroying your entire garden.

By Kathleen Halloran
August/September 2001

Question: What can you do about herbs that grow too well?

Answer: Most beginning gardeners experience the occasional problem of enthusiastically planting something new, only to discover by the end of the season that it seems to want to eat up every inch of available garden space before it goes on to conquer the world. And sometimes a plant that is well-behaved in your climate might be Attila the Hun in another region of the United States. Oftentimes, you don’t know its growth habits until you grow it.

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