Help! I've inherited a herb garden.

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... and a compost thing.

1. Should I pluck out the grass from in between the basil and parsley?

1. And remove the fallen leaves?

1. Should I hack back the mint? It's vey 'leggy' (ahem, gardening terminology there)

1. Wtf do I do with the compost thing? Its all full of black soil stuff and worms. I've googled and have been adding kitchen scraps and wood ash and stirring. But i have no idea how to use the results.

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Mint- you could try and pull it all up by the roots, spread some compost down and replant?

Okay. I'll do weeding.

Whut?? Pull it up by the roots and replant in the compost??? This is a very confusing instruction.

I keep trying to add pictures but my internet is crappy.

Cut the mint regularly - and make it into mint iced tea.

Pull out the grass.

Don't worry about the fallen leaves - unless you want to add them to your compost thing.

I would dig the mint out. Put it in a pot. Otherwise it will take over completely.

Sorry I'm hungover. I'd pull it all out by the roots. Take cuttings of the less stringy bits and replant so it has a chance to grow better but agree it will takeover. If you don't love mint pot it up.

Pot it up anyway unless you want your herb garden to be just mint. It has a tendency to take over.

When you say "take cuttings and replant" what exactly do you mean? Cut it and stick the cutted stalk into a pot?

Dig up the whole mint plant including roots and put the whole lot in a pot with soil. Firm the soil around the roots so the plant is stable. Mint is quite robust, it should cope ok.

The mint might already be in a pot in the ground of course. If so leave it as it is and just chop it back regularly.

The compost if it is full of lovely black ahem - compost - then you can either spread it where you want it as a mulch or bag it up for future use in pots etc, don't add fresh uncomposted stuff and mix unless the original compost is not finished composting yet.