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Post by adobo on Jan 23, 2011 10:10:47 GMT -5
Okaaaay... I have some eggplants and peppers plants placed outside the fence. Most of the time neighbors get to harvest my crops before me. Even passing by joggers, garbage collectors, etc are guilty. Fine its my fault placing those plants there but that spot has the longest sun. So, can I classify them as pests too?
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Post by daylilydude on Jan 23, 2011 10:11:42 GMT -5
YES!!
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Post by Pharmer Phil on Jan 23, 2011 10:20:23 GMT -5
the organic method of removal is the best
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Post by daylilydude on Jan 23, 2011 10:25:25 GMT -5
Hmmm... Is a baseball bat considered organic, it is wood??
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Post by coppice on Jan 23, 2011 15:37:09 GMT -5
The Shakers when they were more numerous always planted extra rows for neighbors who persisted in stealing crops they had growing inside their fence. This persisted even when their numbers were in decline and the remaining were quite elderly.
So what you do will depend on your philosophy. Or what the law alows...
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Post by Trudi on Jan 23, 2011 17:09:46 GMT -5
I have shrubs and wildflowers out in the hellstrips. Last year a little old lady in her hoveround was zooming up the street, she backed up to look at the flowers, and then bent down and began yanking out a gaillardia plant. We yelled from the front porch "Hey, what are you doing?!?!!?" and she zoomed off with the muddy plant in her lap. Hubs and I just stood their, mouths gaping, and dumstruck.
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Post by rintintin on Jan 23, 2011 22:09:08 GMT -5
I will suggest 2 plants to try out there: Green when ripe tomatoes & Bhut Jolokia peppers.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2011 0:11:18 GMT -5
free peppers!! taste one !!! heehee
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Post by stratcat on Jan 25, 2011 22:14:29 GMT -5
Yes, they're pests and it's getting worse since 2000. New people moved into town and I started getting letters from City Hall that my lawn wasn't mowed when it was. I also grow lots of flowers in the H llstrip and I got an old guy in an Amigo wanting flowers. Really had to keep my eye out for him coming with his vase. Then in 2010, more new creeps in the neighborhood whacked a big swath of my salvias. Someone from the apartments went over the fence and helped herself to tomatoes when I was out. I do grow Green, Blue and weird tomatoes in the front but that didn't stop her. And then a few year's ago a guy I wouldn't share my segregating experimental purple peppers with came back when I was out and helped himself to fruit up by the house.
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Post by nolika on Jan 26, 2011 1:28:08 GMT -5
We never have problems like that here. 'To each his own' and that's it. If you want something from somebody, all you have to do is ask politely, and if they have any extra they'll simply give it to you...
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Post by adobo on Jan 26, 2011 1:30:57 GMT -5
I will suggest 2 plants to try out there: Green when ripe tomatoes & Bhut Jolokia peppers. I'm sure they will want more of those bhut peppers once they discover that.
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Post by stratcat on Jan 26, 2011 2:17:19 GMT -5
Seems like since 2000 there's an "anything goes" attitude about. At the apartments (subsidized housing) they heard my gardens were a free for all. After all my hard work... Then last year I had a pastor from two towns away stop who was going to come back for red tomatoes. I told him I don't ever have much in the way of red ones. I blew it by not handing him some tomato starts in cups and having him work for his food. I've had a woman that grew up in Estonia demanding red tomatoes a few times in the 2000s. I told her last year I don't grow those and she could go to the store. Something for nothing. I don't get it...
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Jan 26, 2011 9:39:18 GMT -5
Now Strat, what kinda attitude is that?? Last summer, someone called a lawncare service about my lawn. They knocked on my door using the line that someone had called for grass cutting and mine was the closest number?? Was it me? NO...Are you sure... YES.... I'm guessing it was the OCD person next door who cut his grass every day...they split up recently and sold the house. Fingers, toes and eyes crossed over my nose that the new owners aren't quite so concerned with the length of my luxurious, drought resistant lawn.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2011 21:18:55 GMT -5
If they snag a bhut jolokia pepper, I can promise they will never want to eat another veggie off your peoperty. They won't ever know what veggies are going to set them on fire
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Post by coppice on Jan 27, 2011 6:45:36 GMT -5
I like membrillo, a spanish quince paste style jam. A raw quince is sour enough to be off-putting. And the shrub often has enough thorns to be really off-putting...
Maybe ya gotta grow stuff out front that can fight back.
Has pretty flowers in the spring tho.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2011 7:22:01 GMT -5
You could plant the "Litchi-tomato". Very prickly with bright red tempting fruit.
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Post by nolika on Jan 27, 2011 12:57:18 GMT -5
O, but Litchi tomato is tasty, I loved getting through all those prickly branches to get to the fruits...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2011 18:36:32 GMT -5
Interesting, since I live on a cul-de-sac very few folks walk by. The two times I have planted out in front, not one person took a tomato. In fact, my neighbors would come up and ask to pick tomatoes or eggplants. I told them to stop bothering me and just take what they want. They still kept asking.
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2011 0:34:46 GMT -5
This disturbs me. I'm disabled and no one helps me with my garden except for the one tilling it gets, it's all me. I make myself do a little everyday and sometimes I overdo it. Just knowing what it costs me somedays really ticks me off people would just take your stuff! Last year I didn't have enough to take but this year I might have to sleep outside...
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Post by izitmidnight on May 5, 2011 6:14:33 GMT -5
I have this problem as well. They usually won't come up the driveway to pick. The front bed along the road is the one they will pick from. It gets the most sun of course. This year one of the neighbors donated tomato plants for the front bed. A way of apology, I guess, for the tomatos that they will take.
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Post by sorellina on May 5, 2011 7:59:52 GMT -5
Ciao all-
The only time I've had an issue with anyone taking what they wanted was an Eastern European guy who came by one year and looked longingly at our mulberry tree, but I was outside at the time and told him he could take some. The next year, however, he took that to mean that he could come by whenever he wanted, not ask if I wasn't outside and take as much as he wanted. I had trouble understanding how he came to that conclusion.
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Post by pepperhead212 on May 20, 2011 23:05:03 GMT -5
I use my bhut jolokias as a spray to keep pests off. Hey, it keeps elephants off, it should work with people!
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