I am at my parents house and want to plant garlic in this strip next to the front side of the house. It was weedy and so I started clearing it with the mattock and discovered most of the weeds were mint. Sorry for the low light picture, it is already night time and I want to plant tomorrow.
My main question is how far away does any remaining mint need to be so that it doesn't bother the garlic I will plant? It will be difficult to remove the plants on the edge next to the house as the only garden tool I have here is a mattock. Also will tearing up the roots be sufficient to kill a mint plant or do I need to find all the roots and remove them?
by supinator1
Dining and Cooking