How to Kill a Mint Plant

I had bought a Peppermint plant early in may, with dj's tomatoes. I tried basil too but by 3 weeks, they were goners. My dad had laughed, joking that, as all mint plants were weeds, I'd finally found myself the perfect plant to keep around for my 'near-black' thumb. A hardy plant that I'd have a very hard time to try and kill off.





I finally managed it. I did it. I killed my mint plant. There were these constant bugs that no matter what I did would always come back and eat the damned leaves. So I cut off all the leaves. The mint grew more.. the bugs came back.

I cut the leaves again, this time transplanted the plants into new soil. That did it. Between no leaves to grow sun, and now root trauma, the poor thing had no prayer. SOB.. my poor plant....

The strawberries are half and half, we managed to bring several flowers to fruitful bounty though, so I'm happy!

The tomatoes were the best rewarding. My mom swore blind that nobody she knew, save my grandmother, could grow tomoatoes and actually get any.
They'd started out as dinky little 4" things and, though I didn't know tomatoes were poisonous to cats (Thank GOD they refused to go near the damned things) DJ and I managed to grow her tomato plants to about 2 1/2 feet tall. By then they were flopping all over.. throwing flowers like mad. They just wouldn't bear fruit. So I asked my grandmother to put them in the backyard in her garden. Once she staked them and the bees were allowed near them, WE HAVE TOMATOES!! YAY!