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RE: Cloned mint 6 days update and more
I know exactly what you mean about the energy put into having lawn. I very briefly worked for a lawn treatment company and my father has done it for over a decade. Of course, they have way more lawn than I do and they couldn't garden that whole thing, but I would totally put in some tree groves instead of just having open boring lawn for the whole property.
Anyway, I digress. I see nothing wring with a mint battle royal in the beds. Probably better than all those old McDonald's toys I melted in the flower beds with WD-40 and a lighter when I was a child.
Fruit trees is the way to go, or my favourite is to have grape vine on a trellis around the property boundaries.
It would be nice in a way if your McD toys would have sprouted happy meals, but I have a suspicion they haven't :)
Outside of some mulberry trees, they have none of that, but I agree fruit trees would be amazing to have around a property. I think, for me, it would be cherry and peach trees. Maybe and apple or too as well. I don't think I would want an orchard, but just some random trees around the property.
My parents house has a pretty large garden, it's a vegetable garden mostly, but there are a few fruit trees planted in it as well. I loved that as a kid, just going up in a cherry tree or one of my mom's favourite stories of a 3 year old me, waiting under the huge pear tree for something to drop. My technique worked so I don't get why she's still laughing at me 20-30 years later .
I've got a few trees in containers in my garden now. A cherry tree, a pear, 2 fig trees and a kumquat, but it's not quite the same as having them in the ground.
I hear lemon works well potted too.