"hkw" wrote in message
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Hello all,

I'm new here! And a pretty inexperienced gardener, although I'm
trying
to learn....

Here's my problem; I have a flowerbed running along one side of my
garden, in which I'm trying to grow roses and some other shrubs.
However, someone who lived here previously has planted MINT at one
end
of this flowerbed, and its gets completely out of control and
threatens
to take over the whole bed!

I try to pull it up in the winter when it's died down a bit, but the
extensive network of tough roots underground means it springs back
rampant as ever in the summer, and is impossible to pull up. It
grows
to about 3 feet high, too, and is really unsightly.

How do I get rid of it for good, without poisoning the soil and
affecting my existing shrubs or future plants?

Your best hope is to use glyphosate (Roundup) on it when it is growing
actively.. But make sure the chemical does not get to the leaves of
the desirable plants. The glyphosate effectively becomes neutralised
as soon as it enters the soil

Franz