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[foxgrrl]

So, yesterday I did some gardening, something which I've had extremely little time to do lately. (In fact the gardening I was doing made me an hour late for something else.) I had to leave in the middle, but I was going to finish up when I got back, or today.

While I was gone, someone went into my backyard, and mowed everything down. There was no one else home at the time. I was furious and first thing this morning, told my roommate to totally cancel the yardkeeping service. He was surprised that showed up unexpectedly yesterday. And when he called them, and the landlord, they said that they had not been by yesterday.

So, this means that some complete stranger, entered our fenced backyard with a lawnmower, mowed everything down, and left, touching nothing else. WTF?

I've been trying to stay in a good mood all day, but I've almost broken down crying from this twice. I was so excited to see the baby plants that were just growing back, and now they're all gone. I was just watering them yesterday afternoon. I feel like I'm wasting my time. Everything I try to create is destroyed almost immediately. I can't turn my back for five minutes.

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[hep.livejournal.com]

come over to my place to garden. i have tons of room and i can give you your very own plot and even tend it for you when you are too busy. otherwise i highly recommend pot gardening. it's way easier than bed gardens and the bonus is you can move them around if you find the area they are in is insufficient. or maybe build up some raised beds? that way no one can go mow them without lifting the mower up two feet. I can help you, all it takes is 1 afternoon and a bunch of 2x6s.

[foxgrrl]

come over to my place to garden

That might be long drive to make on a regular basis, and I barely have time to water the plants in the backyard before I go to work every day. Also having a garden in my backyard means that my backyard isn't a big pile of dirt and mowed-to-death grass. The only times I think I'd have to work on it is on weekends, and my weekends are full of all the rest of my life. (Traveling or taking care of the stuff I don't have time for all week.)

The raised beds thing sounds like a good idea. Thanks for the offer.

[ivy]

Yeah, having had similar problems with our landscaping crew (and I own this property! and can't fire them!), I have taken the "too big to ignore" route. A raised bed should do that. That's working reasonably well, so far. I'm hoping to do some more sheet mulching this upcoming weekend; we'll see how that goes. But the backyard totally needs it. [grin]

I hope that the third time's the charm.

[stardansr.livejournal.com]

That really sucks. ((Hugs)) I'm so sorry that happened.

[luckytheevildog.livejournal.com]

wow.

wtf indeed!

[lupagreenwolf.livejournal.com]

****hugs**** I'm so sorry :( I know how hard it is to put that much effort into a garden.

[solarbird]

oh for the love of

I think you can rest assured the landlord or whoever is just lying to you. I mean WHAT, SERIOUSLY. NO.

I'm sorry. ;_;

[(Anonymous)]

It's entirely plausible someone mowed the wrong yard.

Although, we do know the yard people work on weekends.

[foxgrrl]

I think you can rest assured the landlord or whoever is just lying to you.

No, actually I believe it, because the regular lawn people use a weed-whacker to destroy plants. This was done by a lawn mower, there are tire tracks in the pulped grass.

[solarbird]

oh.

well, what the fuck?! Seriously.

Yep!

[futcion.livejournal.com]

At our place the landlord decided to just totally redo the yard, which involved killing every single one of the many plants I'd collected and maintained over the course of about three years. I've tried canceling the gardening in the past, only to find I didn't have time to keep up the yard. The easiest thing was to just give up trying to have anything nice. %)

[krinndnz.livejournal.com]

That is some bullshit. Good luck finding a way to escape from the pillagers.

[adularia.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry. That's really vicious.

[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

Yard service equivalent of a SWAT wrong door raid?

[mollybzz.livejournal.com]

Senseless plant killing is tragic. Mowing in general is a barbarity, but to transgress upon your private clutch of young life is unforgivable. And yet, we must. *hugs*

[zeeth_kyrah]

Time for a webcam and motion-tracking software...

And two-foot-long steel spikes sticking just four inches out of the ground to destroy any lawn mower that gets near your work.

[anaisdjuna.livejournal.com]

Oh honey. Not again. I'm so sorry to hear that. *hair petting, soft whispery hugs*

Hang in there. Sometimes the universe tests us when we feel good. This will sort itself out. Certainly. Maybe big signs would help over things you garden. Surely, if it is a mistaken mow whomever wanted the real mowing has contacted the offending mowers and asked them why they didn't mow the correct yard; so likely they won't make this mistake again.

I hope it's not someone who knows you or your roommates and is doing this maliciously... If it is. Kick their ass from there to here and I'll kick it again Southern Style.

[idea-fairy.livejournal.com]

Have you tried asking the neighbors if any of them had had their back yards not get mowed when they were supposed to be mowed? Then again, if it was a mistake it could have have been for something like the same number on some other street blocks away, so not finding the place that wanted mowing doesn't prove anything.

And are any of the plants salvagable? Some may re-sprout from the stubble.

[kitten-goddess.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry about your garden *Hugs*

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

*hugs* I know how you feel. I've _always_ had a garden. Usually a very large garden, but right now, I live in a scuzzy apartment where my neighbors steal any vegetables that I grow outside and their miserable children smash the flowerpots, take the landscaping rocks and use them to break windows and hurt ducks. It's really really upsetting. I've got lots of indoor plants but.. It's not the same. :(

[ovrclokd.livejournal.com]

*hug* *sympathy* wow, that's made of suck. i hope whoever did it comes back in their next life as a tender green shoot in the spring... and gets eaten by a rabbit.

[fishy1.livejournal.com]

*growls* @ universe on your behalf.

[romonster.livejournal.com]

Why don't you put a fence around your garden?

[whisperfae.livejournal.com]

As a fellow gardener, I can totally relate to your pain. I know how it feels to love and nurture a garden and come along and rip it out without a second thought. It frickin' sucks!
When I rented out my house to move up here, the first thing the property managers did was lay waste to my wisteria and climing roses and all my bulbs... *woe* Even though I hired a gardner to take care of it all. AND they killed my wasps nests (which eat lots of garden pests)! I spent 4 years transforming that backyard.
It doesn't sound very feasible that it was a total stranger, though. Think your landlord could have lied?

[baxil.livejournal.com]

Cripes. I'm sorry. I really loathe the phrase "stupid humans," but it looks like you've found some.

Life endures. I hope you're able to regrow something nice out of it.

[davidsarah.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry, that's terrible. I hope you find out what happened. *hug*