I need emotional support! Neighbor must have herbicided HIS

[gixxerific]

Just saw this Apple I'm so sorry I know how much love and care you put into your garden.

I'm thinking a few things to do that wouldn't be prudent to talk about on this site. One involves a baseball bat, everyone loves baseball don't they.

[applestar]

Thanks, Gixx.
The good news is that the Crested Iris that were all in bud have managed to all bloom. Not sure if it was less susceptible compared to other broadleaved plants. The Tiarella flower stalks are starting to lift their heads again, too, and the native azaleas, including my favorite orange sherbert colored ones are starting to bloom. So there's hope. Maybe the compost soak water helped.

Funny thing: There are tons and tons of Jewelweed seedlings there -- a carpet of them. I was getting ready to pull most of them out and put them in the compost, leaving only a selected few. So you can guess that aside from loss to my compost GREENS, I wouldn't have minded if a good % of these seedlings bit the dust if anything had to go. Well, guess what's going strong with no visible sign of distress? -- I guess it's the hydrophobic leaf surface which beads water into glittering jewels that saved them. The most unwelcome English Ivy shoots that keep creeping in from THEIR side of the fence show no sign of wilting either.

The trouble is now, I can't/don't want to casually pull the weeds with my bare hands, not knowing what might be on them, and I don't think I want to put them in the compost pile either. And so my sense of is doubly, no triply offended because now I'll have to put them out with the garbage.

[gixxerific]

Or you could pull them and throw them back into your neighbors yard. Not like I have ever done that or anything.

[tomf]

If the spray they used only made the ivy sick and it came back and did not kill it then most likely they used some thing like Round up, to kill ivy a woody plant you use Crossbow or a woody plant killer or a mix of round up and Crossbow. The woody plant killer stays longer in the soil.

[applestar]

Well, Ozark Lady, here's MY "lemonade".

I let all those Jewelweed grow, and left the roped off area untended until today. Since then, the neighbor has stained his side of the fence -- As he worked, he draped a canvas tarp over the fence on my side to keep the spray on his side - so he *is* listening -- and probably sprayed other stuff as well, but the Jewelweed, hopefully provided a modicum of protection over the area.

Everyone else seems to be getting rain, but we're in a midst of a drought (a good thundershower rolled along the horizon yesterday, close enough to set off the Lightening Detector in the nearby athletic fields, yet we only got a teaser of a sprinkle).

In the last two days, the Jewelweed started to droop, and I knew it was time. Today, I was armed with my hand sickle but the hollow stem and base of the Jewelweeds easily broke off at ground level. I bagged them all. One 2 cu.ft. bag and one 0.5 cu.ft. bag -- both overstuffed, so at least 3 cu.ft., maybe more like 3.5, of biomass, that hopefully accumulated and sequestered all the bad stuff -- Bio-remediation, my style.

I watered the area well, though we're *supposed to* get some rain tonight. Will get some AACT brewing to restore the area. Having to remove all that biomass (which should have been cut and left as mulch) probably means a pretty hefty nutrient loss.

Jewelweed carpeting the area:
[img]https://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll272/applesbucket/Image7029.jpg[/img]

Base of Jewelweed:
[img]https://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll272/applesbucket/Image7035.jpg[/img]

1/2 of the Shade Garden cleared of Jewelweed:
[img]https://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll272/applesbucket/Image7031.jpg[/img]

All clear!
[img]https://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll272/applesbucket/Image7039.jpg[/img]

Straight into the trash!
[img]https://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll272/applesbucket/Image7038.jpg[/img]