Herbs gone wild

i have the same problem with my oregano... i had planted this herb because i use it when my kids have coughs and colds. what i do when they have too much growth is that i dry the leaves, then crushed them and put them in small containers, i use them in cooking too. have not thought about that selling since i dont really have that many dried oreganos kept. and i know none from my neighbors here uses oregano as one of their spices.

You might take to ruthless cutting, drying and selling of herbs..you might manage to keep ahead of it You're obviously a pretty good gardener though. Everytime that I try to grow anything, it either gets eaten by the slugs or smothered by the weeds which is what my garden seems to grow the best - that and trees and those are pretty well immune to both slugs and weeds.

Oregano and chives aren't usually a problem. Chives will mutiply naturally, and they also can drop seeds that will germinate, but you can limit that by cutting the flower heads off as soon as they die. I've never seen oregano spread much. Maybe you have exceptionally good soil or are in a climate that favors it. As for the mint -- good luck. Mints are very aggressive -- they run underground and come up everywhere. It sounds as if yours is already out of control. You could move to get away from it, of course, but unless you want to dig up the lawn and pull out every single root and runner, tell your husband to resign himself to a very fragrant lawn.

The only way to get rid of it would be to dig it all up by the root. one way I have heard of controlling herbs that spread like mint is to bury them still in the pot so their roots are contained but you might as well just keep them in pots if you are going to do that. But if you really don't like the look of pots burying them in the pot is one way of doing it.