Worst technique ever...

[alldigging]

What's the worst technique you've ever seen done allotmenting / gardening wise?


Someone on our plot has a big gas cylinder with a flame wand and has been burning off the tops of the couch grass.

[binley100]

Rotovating a plot covered in couch etc and spraying the whole plot with weedkiller both fill me with horror.......

[alldigging]

Rotovating a plot covered in couch etc and spraying the whole plot with weedkiller both fill me with horror.......

Well he's not opted for the weedkiller option after rotavating his couch grass in last year - just the flame thrower...

[binley100]

napalm.....?

[donnakebab]

Well he's not opted for the weedkiller option after rotavating his couch grass in last year - just the flame thrower...

Does he not know about roots then and what goes on beneath the surface?

Still better than doing nothing like my lottie neighbours.

[mrswadders]

one of my neighbours takes hours and hours clearing all the weeds in varying patches(and i mean patches) then doesn't plant anything! The first year he did this planted some spuds and left them to rot in the ground! He must have spent a fortune on compost and muck and hours ..........he only does anything when his been served a warning for not cultivating, I had a terrible time last year fighting with the weeds growing over and seeding from his plot.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr not necessarily a technique but all the same b****y annoying

[alldigging]

Yup we've got one of those people too -
Someone who hadn't come for months came with family, did a load of clearing, rotavating etc but failed to plant anything.

It must be about 2 months since then so it's all growing back over just like they never bothered.

[Piggle]

I had someone next to me who was terrified of worms so everytime they found one it got chucked into a pile ... I offered to take them off their hands

I ask you - I think they should vet people before they get a plot!

[zazen999]

Last year when I had a plot and no time - I simply planted up [leftover] tomatoes, squashes, beans, onions, beetroots, lettuces, basil yada yada yada - mulched around them and left them. I had no key all summer so couldn't even go and check on them. The others thought 'eh up - what's she up to, that will never work, yada yada yada' and I had so many [come Sept] toms I was bringing them home by the trugful each week, I was throwing lettuces and beetroot over the fence to passers by, still have pesto in the freezer from the basil and I had a very large plastic storage box full of dried beans which will last us years [we haven't even made a dent in them, and I gave half away].

So they might well have thought it was the worst technique ever but it worked fine for me!

[Florence Fennel]

Not sure you'll believe this but it's true. My next door neighbour has a row of 3 dwarf conifers down the side of their drive. One went really brown and was dying off while the other two stayed green and ok. He's spray painted the brown one green

[binley100]

coffee >>>>>>>>>>..screen
that's the funniest thing I've heard in ages Flo .......

[Florence Fennel]

I wish I could take a picture of it Bins (might ask SIL if he can get a sly one to post on here). What makes matters worse is that it's a different green to the other two.

[binley100]

'tis nice to get a bit of variation in the greenery Flo ....

[binley100]

I'd be tempted to spray paint some different colour blotches on it ......... You could do a little bit yellow .....then a little bit more ..........then add some brown ....

[Florence Fennel]

I hope no-one on here knows who I'm talking about, I would hate to fall out with my neighbours, they're lovely - just perfectionists that didn't get it quite right