On the left is the urns on July 15th and on the right is their current state. It has root rot and is now full of green aphids and white fly. I'm not sure I am going to do with them yet. Maybe I will ripe them out and replace them with something else growing around the yard.
The Chocolate Stripes Tomato growing in one of the topsy turvy's had half the plant wilt and now has some kind of bug making fluffy nests. I hope the remaining branch survives. And they said topsy's solve all disease and bug problems :-)
The zucchini also keep rotting. I have been pollinating them but they just don't seem to want to set yet.Lastly our neighbor had some "idiot" do some yard work for them. He mistakened our garden for theirs and waked the crap out of it. The Ligularia was looking truly amazing and now half the blooms have been looped off, the other Ligularia has had most of its lower leaves removed and now looks lollipopped and my Dicentra has been completely removed. But most of the weeds have been left undisturbed! No pictures, I am trying to avoid looking at it....
Yuck. I hate to hear about the neighbor's idiot. How could even the most idiotic of idiots cut off blooms!?
ReplyDeleteRibbit - Yes, last time I checked gardens are about blooms & leaves!
ReplyDeleteI cannot believe your neighbor's landscaper mistook your garden for theirs. I'd make him put it all back and fix the mistake for sure.
ReplyDeleteTina - He was no landscaper, just some guy. If he is a landscaper he will not be in the business long. Thankfully I have lots of the Dicentra out back and the other stuff will grow back. I can understand the mistake because our property is right against their porch so it looks like their garden. It should have been explained to him though before he went at it with kitchen scissors.
ReplyDeleteThat's why I walk around in the yard with a loaded shotgun occasionally. Nobody dares to enter the yard. Ha!
ReplyDeleteI'd do as EG says. It's a bit extreme, but very effective.
ReplyDeleteohhh...ouch. Bad enough when you screw up your own garden, but when somebody does it for you, that's just...
ReplyDeleteMaybe your neighbor was jealous and told him to do it...LOL...
Just kidding, better luck next month!
Oh my goodness - a rogue plant assassinator! A beheader too! That's horrible! Did you talk with your neighbor?? Maybe you should leave a limp rotten zucchini in your neighbor's porch for "Leave zucchini on your neighbor's porch" day coming up... Thanks so much for participating in GBDD!
ReplyDeleteWe have a villager who takes it upon himself to strim 'untidy' areas. He's strimmed off no end of plants that out Britain in Bloom group have planted. Can't think of anything to say to him that wouldn't be rude and I'm sure you feel the same way. You just have to seethe quietly don't you?
ReplyDeleteThe urns are so not nice now....
ReplyDeletethe neighbors, what can you say....hmmmm maybe best not to say anything....at least the plants will grow back ....
Last year the landscape company that mowed my lawn whacked down my hostas and ran over a small rhododendron (a rhododendron that I grew from a stem cutting so lovingly cared for for years). This year I mow my own lawn. Sigh. Hard to deal with when it is your neighbors "guy". I hope you talked to your neighbor about him so it won't happen again.
ReplyDeleteMy zucchini is just like yours, but mostly they rot before they even bloom. Finally two opened. I hope they set. I think they did, but can't be sure yet. I've got my fingers crossed.
I would definitely talk to the neighbor so this does not become a weekly performance. Yikes!
ReplyDeleteYou know... everyone talks like zucchini is guaranteed to produce... but they are not as easy as everyone would like to have one believe. Your plant is a case in point.
Thanks for sharing your pain. I have one tomato plant (which I should have pulled long ago and have just not had the heart) tha makes all of your plants look robust and healthy. Feel better?! :D
How brave you are, showing the inevitable failures in the garden. There is a tendancy to display my successes and just gloss over or ignore the failures. These can be helpful and uplifting for other gardeners who share the same problem.
ReplyDeleteGeez, what a nincompoop ! I hope he destroyed the neighbor’s yard as well, that way they won’t hire him anymore ?!
ReplyDeleteStrange what happened to the tom :S … and that urn was one of my fav’s. Awww ... :(
I think you should talk to your neighbor too. I'm sure you'll find a tactful way to get the message across.
ReplyDeleteDo you do your pollinating in the morning? I've read that the flowers open in the morning, close around noon, and the potentency of the pollen deteriorates as the day goes on. I do mine in the morning, and so far so good.