What experiences have other people had of having "chemical gardeners" for neighbours?
I don't use chemicals on my garden and wouldnt do so even if it was a purely "ornamental" one. That is all the more the case because I am growing as much food as I can in my little garden - and it's organic of course.
I live in a small rural town now - so it's all the more necessary - because I've not got the level of shopping facilities I've had formerly and so it's also necessary in order to get as much variety as possible in my diet here (as the supermarkets here are very limited in what they stock and there's many fewer places to eat out here).
Next door neighbour is a chemical-sprayer and that's a bit worrying. Now an even nearer neighbour (in some ways) has turned out to be a chemical-sprayer and they just had someone out spraying on a bit of stolen-from-me-by-last-owner-of-their-house bit of my garden that I can still use for access to see to my fruit trees and my strawberries I have planted right next to it. Agh!!!!!! I'm scared they're going to poison my food - and the spraying still happened, despite me saying that.
When I could see what was happening - and that there is wind (as usual) today I was out there with my hosepipe watering my fruit trees and strawberries like mad in advance and watered like mad after the nasty chemicals had been sprayed nearby too. I am worried that happened near my organic food I'm growing and that they might do it again in the future.
I've tried to stop this and I've told the gardener they used that I've got food growing in my garden and will be eating it still - so I hope they don't poison me with their chemicals.
I'm understandably upset - especially as a large part of why I bought a house with a garden was to grow as much of my food as I can and I was here years before the "chemical neighbours".
What experiences have other people had of neighbours using chemicals near their garden - especially foodgrowing ones like mine? How did you/do you deal with it? I obviously want to stop that. At the very least I need to prevent them poisoning/ruining any of my food.
To me logic dictates "Be nice to a gardener growing food near you - as they might give you some if they have a surplus". That's the logical position imo. Well that obviously won't be happening now and so they'll be dipping out on getting any groceries for their larder.....and my mind is boggling they didn't seem to realise that would obviously happen....
