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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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[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.