Love Thy Neighbor…

Posted on | July 20, 2007 | 5 Comments

…even when he sprays poison all over the plants (weeds) along the edge line and splashes it all over the base of the clump of Bee Balm you’ve been nursing along, trying to coax a bloom out of, for four years. Love him because you don’t know him. Love him because he’s in the same boat you’re in, with two house payments and this ridiculously expensive home he built and can’t seem to sell. Love him because he’s just trying to make the world a better place. With less weeds. Or something.

the bee balm next to dead

The brown, burnt scruff you see behind the glorious (finally!) blooming Bee Balm was once a lovely stand of Goldenrod, the same one that last year played host to what looked like possibly every aphid in Northeast Ohio. My bad for planting Comfrey and Bee Balm right there by the rocks in a weak, unfinished attempt at getting some kind of an edge garden happening. I had big plans for Bee Balm tea for the winter, but won’t be harvesting any of it now. Will it be safe to use if I move it and let it live in healthy soil, far, far away from the killing drops of Round Up for a few years?

Here’s where I want to wax philosphical about city living vs. country living, but hell…we had issues out in the boonies too. We just couldn’t see the neighbors in their bathroom.

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5 Responses to “Love Thy Neighbor…”

  1. eve
    July 20th, 2007 @ 8:04 pm

    ugh, i just discovered what that weird smell i smelled a couple days ago was…weed killer sprayed, yes! right along our fence line. i have made faces about it but not sure what else. each and every one of our neighbors–east, west and north–has been out and about with the stuff. i watched with sad horror as a mama robin built a nest out of the deadened weeds from the east house the next day. i have not seen baby robins.

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  2. debra
    July 21st, 2007 @ 10:01 am

    Argggghhh! Remember when my father-in-law sprayed Roundup in the area where my chickens ranges?
    I’ve got bee balm in red and purple if you want some
    xox

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  3. dawn
    July 21st, 2007 @ 10:59 am

    I had bee balm at our hold house, not here, and it was NEVER that beautiful! That’s just gorgeous!

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  4. Angelina
    July 22nd, 2007 @ 11:38 am

    I am growing bee balm right now for the first time ever. It just bloomed and I love it! Such a wild looking flower.

    I think if you plant it out of the round up range and don’t harvest it for a year or two you’ll be perfectly safe.

    I just hate that people use that stuff at all. Ever. so evil.

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  5. Shower Doors
    January 23rd, 2010 @ 1:45 am

    Certainly got us thinking here are work, expect a few replies later.

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