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Hi Guys,

One of the people in the organic area of our site has covered there site in weed killer, if thats not bad enough they have used the watering cans I and a friend of mine use to do it which means all the stuff we have watered has now also died.

My friends plot boarders hers and all the plants along the boarder are also gone.

EAK

:-[

CAM

Bloody hell Cam

Bloody woman!  Hopefully it will be so watered down by the time your plants got a drift of it that most will survive - but what is the woman doing? Why does she do that in the Organic section.  Is it just generally accepted to be the organic area or is it deliberately kept for organic produce.

What a pain - Hopefully you and your friend won't have too much damage.  I would speak to her though and mention that if she does it again can she please supply her own spray vessel and also warn all of you beforehand so that you can cover vulnerable plants and so on.

What a silly mare!

Old Bird

:o

Worse that vandals - they don't know any better!

sorry to hear about that, cam..we've had someone do this in the communal Polytunnel  :o
several plants bordering his are looking sickly  :(
committee are on the case  ;D

hi

the plants look dead after 2 days, we dont know whats shes has used but it looks strong stuff.

Were going to head up tonight with the hose pipe (yes there is a ban but i cant imagine anyone will complain)

The site is deliberably kept organic, this woman is disabled and in a wheelchair and i think has paid someone to prepare the site for her.

I just cant believe that after 2 days things are just... well dead.

Cam

As Old bird said, I hope you speak to her and give her a piece of your mind, stupid cow.  >:(

I have called the parish clerk as no one has ever seen her on the plot things kind of just get done over night. I met her once and i got a 20 min ear bashing as someone told her i managed the site.

Oh dear Cam I'm so sorry to hear about this.

I know how you feel.

Fancy using your watering cans, you didn't have a chance really you just wouldn't expect any reasonable person to do that.
I hope they aren't so stupid that they've used something long lasting, as you say it looks like strong stuff.
If they used the watering cans.....do you get water from a tap or a trough? if it's a trough the water will be contaminated as well.....though dilute.

It's hard enough sometimes fighting the slugs, the birds etc without this as well.

The people who sprayed my plants two years ago are never seen...i've never had a chance to give them a piece of my mind. They still have the plot despite a waiting list of 40 someone told me today. I think guilt keeps them away.

Good luck...hope you haven't lost everything.

It amazes me every day how stupid some people can be...

I'd try and get some kind of compensation from her or the parish council - still i'd bet you'd rather have the veg. Did the PC tell her it was an organic area ? Did she have permisson to use the watering can ?

Watering them loads is probably the only thing you could do - although i'd worry about eating the stuff though, especially root crops etc..

Unbelievable! Hope she gets thrown off the site, wheelchair or not!

Horribly stupid. So sorry for your losses, Cam. I hope the allotment govt. solves it to your favor.

Amazing! It sounds like it wasn't her that did it, but someone she paid. Wonder if some compensation could be due?

Disgraceful.  I can only try to imagine the horror of it all.  Devastated and annoyed.   >:(

been up to visit today looks like i have just lost the JA (the ones i got from supersprout and saddad) a while back.

Photo shows the damage http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n61/cambourne7/damaged_JA.jpg

My friend has lost just about everything bar a row of potatoes, the other row has gone yellow and does not look healthy. His garlic and spinach has got bubbles on the leaves like they have been burnt. All his seedlings in his cold frame are gone as well so thats his beans, peas, brassicas, tomatos, chillis.

I have just picked up some tomatos from freecycle for him and another allotment holder has give us some butternut squash seeds.

The chair of the allotment association came up and inspected he site (no choice really i stood on his plot till he was fed up of me ranting  ;D

If she is not thrown off there will be a riot.

Quote from: cambourne7 on June 24, 2008, 21:28:48
been up to visit today looks like i have just lost the JA (the ones i got from supersprout and saddad) a while back.

Photo shows the damage http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n61/cambourne7/damaged_JA.jpg

My friend has lost just about everything bar a row of potatoes, the other row has gone yellow and does not look healthy. His garlic and spinach has got bubbles on the leaves like they have been burnt. All his seedlings in his cold frame are gone as well so thats his beans, peas, brassicas, tomatos, chillis.

I have just picked up some tomatos from freecycle for him and another allotment holder has give us some butternut squash seeds.

The chair of the allotment association came up and inspected he site (no choice really i stood on his plot till he was fed up of me ranting  ;D

If she is not thrown off there will be a riot.

OMFG are those even near the edge of her lottie?
Id be so p*ssed off right now
Sorry your having to go through this cam :(

How on earth did she do that?  I'd be spitting tacks.  I'm just about to dig up some JAs that are straying from their designated area.  I bought the parents on a Gardeners' World offer last year.  If you'd like some, you're very welcome to them.

Quote from: caroline7758 on June 24, 2008, 18:23:40
Unbelievable! Hope she gets thrown off the site, wheelchair or not!

Wheel chair or not you just don't do that.
When I took on my plot it was in a bad state, but I just dug it myself.
I am sure if she had asked some of your people on other plots would have helped her.
Hope she does get thrown off the site.
Sorry if I sound harsh but she deserves to

I am so sorry Cam that you and your friend have lost so much stuff.  What was the woman thinking about and what weedkiller was used if everything died within a day or so.  I think you will need to know what was put down as your ground may not be suitable for growing things for a long time!  I hope the chairman does something about it.

Awful.  I'd be in tears if I lost all that.  What a complete idiot.  Really sorry to hear this.

thanks ceres if you can hang on a couple of days as i need to find out what the weed killer is and make sure its not gone anywhere else.

good7saint yes i agree we would have offered to help but shes not really helped herself, shes had the plot for 7 months and done nothing so we covered it in weed membrane to kill the weeds and stop them spreadding. She turned up about 3 weeks ago and removed all the membrane and put laminated signs saying things like keep off and dont touch anything and dont remove anything (dispite the fact that all the stuff she put on her plot belongs to her neighbours). Apparanty shes hired landscapers which might explain the strenth of whats been used. Not the use of our watering cans. The stand pipe is on the corner of her plot and the watering cans are always left full beside the stand pipe. The chair of the allotment association thinks that she may believe there hers or the landscapers though they were old ones they could use. Either way NOT good enough.

We have taken photos and were going to do a list of everything thats gone and what needs to be replaced like the watering cans. My friend was made redundant in march and has been spending all his time up there planting and pottering its so dishartening. Were going to look at some of the beds i had covered in cardboard and plant these up with stuff hes lost while his plot decontaminated.

We have even brought up a hose pipe (normaly banned) to soak the site and try and flush the sites.