Another hot week in Central Texas. The corn is making and there’s jalapeno, banana and bell peppers. The tomatoes and green beans are coming back after the last storm. Next, year I’m not planting as many lettuces as I’m giving bags out to everyone. Noticed one evening that the squash was looking droopy and the next morning there were squash bugs everywhere. Pinched the ones I could catch. I only had some old Sevin dust so went with that. One step forward and two back.
That was also the evening I noticed the neighbor had cut the stems of my grape vines on my fence that separates us. This is their vacation house so they don’t live here. Yes, he can legally do what he wants with whatever’s on his side of my fence but he could have asked. I saw him down at the bottom with loppers but I ignored him so now I’m going to have to go down there and see what he was doing. This winder, I had cleaned the fences of everything but the grapes so they’d be abundant for jelly making. Now, no grape jelly for the neighbor. No nothing from the garden for the neighbor. So, now I have to clean the dead grape vines off the fence. I’m not a happy camper. Last year, they wanted to put a vine with thorns on it (they have little grandkids and dogs) and I told them not on my fence but they were more than welcome to ask the neighbors on their other side about it. So guess this is pay back. Never mind that we have run people off several times from their place because it’s obviously a vacation home and never mind that we’re here to notify them when there’s a weather situation. Last straw and no jelly for them - ever, grrrr.
Yeah, my neighbors ****, too. On one side I have a master gardener from Viet Nam who lops my Crepes and Ligustrum from over the fence so her morning sun is uninterrupted. She really knows her stuff. I leave for work at 5:30am and on the trail up to my truck I breathe in the night-blooming Jasmine she trains on her side of the fence.... other-worldly.
Then my other neighbors weed-whacked three grapes and two rose plantings, but they need to die for somehow importing the Yellow Thistle to my lot, which is Satan’s flower. It went crazy and is everywhere. Never seen this plant in my life but now I have to clip each plant and bag it to avoid seed distribution.
So, it’s not just you. Chin up, girl.
My heartfelt solutions for dealing with your neighbor would get me thrown off Free Republic forever....
But, I’ll bet if you did give them a sample of your grape jelly it would be your best revenge and solution! They would know what they were missing!