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Related: About this forumOur complex's lawn maintenance was here today.
The guy using the weedwhacker whacked my whole row of herbs inside our patio fence! I'm now in mourning my fresh herbs. Guess he did know what a tomato was on the other side of the fence. Just damn! the last of my lush mint, rosemary, basil, sage, dill, cilantro, and stevia - all gone!
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)It did grow sensationally after they accidentally mowed it down though.
I hope yours do as well!
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,280 posts)except for cats.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,280 posts)People who do lawn maintenance should have some very basic knowledge of botany - at least the ability to distinguish weeds from cultivated plants.
SoCalNative
(4,613 posts)how to operate the equipment that they are using.
Nictuku
(3,571 posts)I have some that overtakes part of my yard and I cut it all the way back each year, yet it persists.
Dem2theMax
(9,595 posts)No matter what you do, you can't kill it, get rid of it, make it go away.
Boxerfan
(2,531 posts)It's her gift I like to think. And it always comes back after weeding . I have left it behind in 3-4 homes I've had prior to this one.
She was a mint julep kinda gal.
I just took one cutting and now it is established across my yard.
Dem2theMax
(9,595 posts)How wonderful!
I grow tomatoes every year, and I always plant mint in a separate container, to keep the tomato worms away. They don't like the smell of mint.
Even in a separate container, the mint found a way to get into the tomato plant tubs. Now it's actually growing out of the ground. I am going to have mint in my yard for the rest of my life!
elleng
(130,156 posts)The mint may return, eh?
Backseat Driver
(4,339 posts)The guy missed the curry entirely; the mint has resprouted (impossible to really kill); the parsley returned, the dill is bushy now instead of two 1/2 ft stalks but no flower; the stevia held on. Gone entirely and never to return: the rosemary, the cilantro, the basil, and the sorrel. Backseat Driver wept for weeks but has been rewarded for the TLC and at least 4 quarts of tomato sauce and 6 packages of freezer pickles with garden red and green pepper. Also got a bunch of carrots I wasn't expecting. Even the celery stalks were tasty though very skinny and leafy. A couple more weeks, and we'll put the garden to bed and take the patio cushions in for my most favorite season, fall!
handmade34
(22,755 posts)damn, I would be crying
trof
(54,255 posts)Seriously.
demigoddess
(6,640 posts)iron butterflies and such on metal sticks all over your garden. The guys will come and ask you to move them so they can weedwhack and you can tell them that's your herbs or put a big sign and maybe police tape around the bed. that is what I would do.