tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4749601618320817103.post3536725793626845086..comments2023-04-02T15:48:31.245-07:00Comments on Scattered Gardener: Tragic demise of an organic allotment...Scattered Gardenerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09036280727246164559noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4749601618320817103.post-7019986672390425842009-08-01T00:41:43.703-07:002009-08-01T00:41:43.703-07:00Crikey. The dangers of letting someone have a fre...Crikey. The dangers of letting someone have a free hand! Thanks for writing it all, I really enjoyed reading all the comings and goings of your fellow plot holders.<br /><br />My neighbour let someone look after her garden while she was away looking after her very ill mum. She got back and all the plants had been savaged. The lady said "I have tidied it all up for you". This included a huge grass that was really the whole centrepiece of a very small garden! She is really upset, so I hope your neighbour isn't ....ReapWhatYouGrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13342206685425368241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4749601618320817103.post-42168417276425195842009-07-16T14:12:16.328-07:002009-07-16T14:12:16.328-07:00There's just something about cleaning up someb...There's just something about cleaning up somebody else's 'clutter' that brings out the urge to clear everything for some of us. I hope she's not destroyed anything that he cannot rebuild. Maybe he wanted a new start and knew her well enough to know what to expect. <br /><br />You asked me about purple Datura -- Thompson and Morgan have the seeds. They're called 'Blackberry Swirl' or something like that. I grow new ones every year, cold kills the plants to the ground where they may or may not return in a warm climate.Jean Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09000315400392984647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4749601618320817103.post-22174654877808827912009-07-09T07:43:01.015-07:002009-07-09T07:43:01.015-07:00Dear Jo, thank you for reading through the whole t...Dear Jo, thank you for reading through the whole thing. Became something of meditation on things passing, which I hadn't intended when I started it!<br />A friend, another organic gardener, said the whole plot would need cleaning up with a green manure crop in order to begin to get it back to health. On the plus side, nature is very forgiving - one tenant drenched his plot with jeyes fluid to get rid of weeds, little of anything grew the following year, but the next tenant has restored it to health and productivity over the last two seasons.Scattered Gardenerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09036280727246164559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4749601618320817103.post-7973983164515162372009-07-08T06:21:24.087-07:002009-07-08T06:21:24.087-07:00Oh dear. This is the problem when you give someone...Oh dear. This is the problem when you give someone a free hand to do what they like. Perhaps he didn't think she would take it so literally. I hope he can restore it to how he wants when he gets back.Johttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17436932004631816039noreply@blogger.com