Holy crap. I HAVE SLOPES ON MY PROPERTY. So do my neighbors: I will warn them immediately.
I think there is serious trouble brewing in New Hampshire: Many of us up here own riding mowers. In fact, there are FARMS AROUND HERE, and the farmers have TRACTORS, which are like WMDs for tall grasses and the like.
Next month, the farmers will begin heartlessly tearing the harmless apples from their little, fragile stems, which provide them needed nourishment. Would a more humane course of action be to let the apples fall to the ground so that they can rot, or be consumed by wildlife?
If I wait under an apple tree for an apple to fall of its own accord, would it be ok to eat the apple? What about the seeds? Should I simply spit these onto the ground, or should they be planted? If I should plant them, is it ok to displace other plants?
Your original post has me really concerned. I own a riding mower, a push mower, a weed whacker, a leaf blower, and a really nifty gas powered edger. To plants, I must be a greater menace than Saddam Hussein was to the Kurds....
Only if you ask the tree first.