saying came home to me this past summer. unfortunately, one of the herbs i had planted right in the middle of the herb garden was a pot of chocolate mint. now, if you know much about herbs, and mint in particular, you know you should contain mint with some sort of barrier, or else plant it where it will not bother other plants as it spreads. that first year it seemed innocent enough and i actually worried whether or not it was going to survive because it looked somewhat sick for most of that first summer.
what i failed to realize was that it was using all its energy to send 