My neighbor is finally chopping down the ailanthus tree (aka, weed tree or ghetto palm). Chopping at is is a better term, though. For some dumb reason, he refuses to take it down even though it qualifies as a weed and is a finable offense.
This is exciting not just because it mean less crap falling into my yard and, hopefully, fewer seedlings to be yanked up every year. But it's really exciting because it means that my tomato plants may have a shot at getting enough sunlight to produce fruit. I'm not supervising the process because it's too stressful for me and experience shows that my neighbor doesn't care much about protecting my plants. the last time he cut the tree was just before Hurricane Isabel hit and he just let the branches fall where ever, including on top of my fig tree.
I told him this morning that if any of my plants got hurt he would be replacing them and if any of the food producing plants got hurt or destroyed, there would be more than money to pay.
We will see what happens.
My search for carrot recipes (which has been successful and means that he hasn't cut the phone/DSL line yet) turned up a bazillion carrot raisin salads which are not that interesting to me but also this recipe form allrecipe.com for Grandma's sweet carrot relish. I'm thinking that i can modify it a bit for the ingredients I have on hand and it also means that I might be able to use the breadmaker for which I no longer have a paddle which is also supposed to do jams. this could be interesting!
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I read about your neighbor's tree on Wikipedia. Do they really smell? It also sounds like they sprout like weeds here, there and everywhere.
ReplyDeleteOh, they are awful. I'll take a picture so you can see how tall it has grown. My housemate says that it didn't smell too much while they were cutting it but when I have to pull out the seedlings, I always wear gloves because they will make your hands stinky. They do grow everywhere. This one is trying to take out my side wall.
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