Neighbor used herbicide on many of my collected plants
rockthief
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Comments (8)I feel your pain!!! Have been going through a similar situation with a neighbor (for 17 yrs now!). They, too, do things under the guise of "helping" me. I put drought tolerant plants in our front yard, that butts up to the property line between us. They had automatic sprinklers & would flood the area regularly-which would over-spray into our yard. I used to ask nicely, could you adjust your sprinklers, attempting to be a "good" neighbor. His response was "you don't want FREE water"? NO...I don't! There were a variety of offenses...them not understanding boundaries & personal property issues. They cut plants, moved boundary rocks, pulled out plants, etc. When I caught them doing it, they claimed they were just "helping" me. Yikes! What part of "don't touch my plants" don't you understand? I used signs at times. Didn't help. I have no landlord to go to with a complaint. You should...go complain!! Have a face-to-face talk with the neighbor. Unfortunately, my talks with ours fell on deaf ears. They think they can do whatever they want. We are currently in the process of ripping out ALL plants between us, just so we can install a WALL (at great expense to us)...as these folks still don't get it when we ask them not to touch our plants, or things on our property. I wish you luck resolving this issue. I'd say you should enlist the help of your landlord (esp. if you say they have installed a raised bed without permission)....See MoreCollecting Seeds How Many Do you Collect
Comments (6)That makes me feel so much better! I have a whole bowl of tomato seeds that I saved this year. And I was wondering as I was mushing the tomatoes and setting them to ferment (I had to use two quart jars to allow enough space for them to sink to the bottom)...Just how many seeds do I really need? And since I couldn't come up with a rational sounding answer, I decided to save as many as my furniture surfaces would allow, LOL! My entire living room is full of saucers full of seeds and my bedroom has corn hanging on the wall drying. Is that obsessive or what? I've got enough tomato seeds to supply every person in the county. Which I will probably share a lot of tomato seeds with neighbors and such. I've been trying to talk everybody into growing gardens again. Most of them used to grow a garden and they got so busy earning a living they let it go. Now with prices the way they are, I think people are reconsidering the importance of growing their own food supply. So, I've got patty pans, white spaghetti, tomato, cukes, watermelon, hot bananas and such drying all over the house. Steph...See MoreWill covering plants help with herbicide drift?
Comments (6)Legal recourse usually means you have to demonstrate financial loss of some kind. For a hobbyist home gardener, that's not easily done. If the poison affected people or animals, there would be a case. But most common herbicides are considered safe for people at normal exposures. For damage to plants, there's very little that can be done. If she used a landscaping company, I might be able to seek recourse that way, but private use of herbicide on personal property? Her "gardener" is just a guy she grossly underpays to do yard work. He's a nice guy who works like 3 jobs just to feed his family. I'm really not interested in action that could have negative consequences for him. If anyone knows of cases that have actually gotten some kind of recourse, I'd love to hear about it....See MoreNeighbor planting in my garden
Comments (65)By having the existing pavers cut, (by requesting the property line be identified) it appears you cut away your own walkway. Do you plan to use your neighbor's walkway on this side of the house? Without their permission? If you're not careful, you'll end up alienating your neighbor -- one that appears to be, geographically at least, a very close neighbor ... unnecessarily. What is your purpose? If, this is about claiming your turf and you do need a walkway on that side of your house, bite the bullet and spend the money to build your own walkway now -- even if that is just filling the space with cement or concrete or gravel. If your objection is to the kinds of plants that are there and if don't need a walkway and want to plant your own flowers/plants there, do it. You could reclaim your space by removing the plants that are there and putting them in cheap containers to give them back to your neighbor on the day that, and as, you plant a single shrub with mulch around it in that space....See Moregarett
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