| Scottie |
| | March 25, 2010 | Reply with quote | #1 |
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I think someone I know is trying to get me and has put something on my lawn to kill it.
Should I phone the police or confront the suspected party?
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| Polardude |
| | March 25, 2010 | Reply with quote | #2 |
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Maybe you should get rid of that lawn... Seems to be causing you alot of trouble. Maybe xeroscaping is the answer. |
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| Rozmund |
| | March 26, 2010 | Reply with quote | #3 |
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Before you lose any more sleep over this - take the damaged clumps of grass and get them to the nearest agricultural outlet for an analysis - these are hard to do, I must tell you as they must look for something specific - so unless you have the specific name of a chemical it can be difficult.....
- has this neighbour ever said or done anything to make you suspect him...have the neighbours seen anything peculiar -in the meantime drench the lawn with water to hopefully wash whatever it is out...
I would start with securing a turf and soil analysis - and take it from there - if the ph of the soil has been altered dramatically, you could then confront the neighbour...I doubt the police would do anything...they do not act on suspicions these days...
- as far as the previous message about xeroscaping - if the neighbour has a grudge against you..nothing will help...also, if it were me, I would also send in a soil sampling in from his property where it is as close to yours as possible....
there have a fanned the flames or what...good luck...I will tell you a story about neighbours....
25 years ago, when I was working and flush, I had my property professionally landscaped...all plants came with a one year warranty...everything was in fantastic shape, flowering shrubs all over, and healthy ever greens.. our properties are in a park like setting, with no fenches....I visited my gardens every morning - coffee in hand - and then took myself off to the city for work...one scorching hot day, I came home early - only to find that several rather expensive ornamental trees that were in full bloom and happy that morning were covered in drooping leaves, dropping blossoms....I thought this is rather odd, with the same visual effect on 3 different species of plants, so it could not be a virus, a funguas, or a bug infestation...I stuck my nose in the centre of these plants and all I could smell was herbicide....then I went over to his back lawn and got on my hands and knees and smelled his dandelions...same smell....
the jerk next door was hand spraying his property and the wind drift took it over to my trees
which were just tall enough to catch the poison particulates floating in the breeze...I confronted
him immediately - and of course he denied everything....the three trees did die in about 10 days times, as the poisen he used was systemic - they did not come back the following year...I left them there, as awful as they looked to remind this jerk, of what the stuff was capable of doing when conditions were not condusive - I further asked him if he could swear he did not breathe some of it in...well I recovered from my tantrum, a year later I planted more stock....he moved away - now I am retired and when I see anyone - professional or not - with their hose of poison I am out there with my hose of water...wetting down my gardens -
I would direct anyone interested in the long term effect and chain reaction in the environment of consistent incorrect use of these killing chemicals to look at the following current links while they are still free of charge...quite an eye opener
http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=1687&category=Environment
there are two other reports when you get this one...they will be free for the next 24 hours.
Linda Howe is a credited investigative jounalist....
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