Makes me so angry

[allotmentlady]

Your digging away, enjoying yourself and then you smell something strange.........no it isnt any type of manure and it isnt the latest brand of whoever might be smoking....its the inconsiderate allotment holder who cannot speak!"
Why do some people start spraying pesticides or weedkillers, without consulting anyone else, dont they think of other people, which direction the wind might be blowing on a particular day?

If your going to spray anything, consider others around you, speak with people, consider the weather factor!

[vicky]

I know how you feel, I live next to a field and the farmer seems to always be out there spraying something!!!! When I first moved here I was told rather bluntly 'don't walk in the field - we spray the crop'.....the footpath runs right through the field!!!!! Hello? Does the spray not drift 1/2ft onto the path? AGGGHHH!!!!
and breathe!

[jacob marley]

Are but you are going to get even it is more fun when you fire up your new Honda noise machine give a extra bit of throtle when the anoying one is about jacob

[allotmentlady]

LOL ahhhhh yes.........LOL

[rustylady]

Actually you can complain to your allotment rep if you can't bring yourself to speak to the offender yourself. I think you'll find that it's a condition of the allotment leases that no-one interferes with anyone else's plot, and if you can smell his spray (weedkiller or insecticide) then it's landing on your plot and interfering with your growing system.

[Paul Wagland]

Too right Rustylady. One of my neighbours throws pesticides about like they're going out of fashion. Just between you and me I have been known to sweep his slug pellets up and bin them five minutes after he's left the plot.

Well, it's my wildlife too!

[rustylady]

Paul, it's not the slug pellets that bother me so much, as you say you can sweep them up. It's the a*****e with a weedkiller spray that drifts onto your plot and kills all your seedlings that really bugs me. Not so much of a problem at the site I'm on now, but was on previous one (one guy in particular) who we all suspected of selling his produce - who would ever eat that many cabbages for one family?

[allotmentlady]

Yes I have reported them but our allotment officer really does not do anything, and writing to the council drives you insane.......lol @ paul and the slug pellets.good on you

[Paul Wagland]

It's the a*****e with a weedkiller spray that drifts onto your plot and kills all your seedlings that really bugs me.

I really don't know what I'd do about that. I guess pressuring the allotment rep is the only way forward - if he does nothing you could always put a formal complaint in writing... why you should have to is beyond me though.

[allotmentlady]

I know........what worries me is that he has left his plot to overgrow......think about this....he grows all season and then lets everything rot down, him and another........then when it comes to the next season out comes pesticides, weedkillers.......and starts again. Why no-one knows and yet the allotment officerlets him get away with for the past 3 years, keeps giving him 'chances'.

I am in process of writing a formal letter of complaint again!

[wizard]

i love it i get the 1954 bulldog rotorvator out and boy what a noise and when they ask me to turn it off i just say i didnt ask you to stop spraying did i lol

[roadkill]

have you spocken to the person involved???

[allotmentlady]

Yes but they ignore me saying they garden their way and I do it my way!

[jeannine]

I do feel for you, on the plus side more and more people are realising that these sprays are a waste of money. I can't think of one famous gardener now who doesn't claim to be organic or to try to be organic.

Some people on a plot near ours spent a whole day spraying the whole thing with glyphosphate and then were surprised and dismayed when the weeds grew back. They never came back to the allotment again.

If they'd just started digging over a bit at a time they'd have saved all that time and money and they'd probably still be enjoying growing their own now...

[jwlchapman]

I am a properly qualified horticultural sprayer and we are trained to be aware of our impact on the environment. I don't think it's ok for any Tom, Dick or Harriet to spray away with no guidance, but perhaps that's one for the Town Hall wallahs to sort out.