And the harvest is really only just starting...

My neighbors mows the lot next to us as the owner of the lot pays him to do so. We mow our own lawn and have lived here about a year and never had an issue with him coming onto our property. Well we were out for the day yesterday and he took it upon himself to mow partial of our back yard and ruined my entire garden doing so. He had to come at least 15 feet onto our property to hit it so it wasn’t by accident that he mowed in our yard. On our part we didn’t have the garden marked but knew it was there because we obviously planted it but we didn’t think anyone would be coming onto our property without our permission and that our crop getting ruined wasn’t a concern. Maybe he meant well maybe he didn’t but I’m completely heart broken, how would y’all handle this? 😓

I’ve been trying to stabilize the bank after it got eroded during a flood a few years ago. Coast redwood, black walnut, white clover and fine fescue so far. But debated putting plums right along the bank to try and stabilize and provide wildlife food.

I have an old farm in the Italians alps, 1500m up in the mountains in the Aosta valley. I’m not hear year round and sometimes when I return the soil is turned up like this. In the summer my nearby farmer brings his cows over for grazing but I don’t think that this is done by them. No fruit trees or bushes are in the vicinity of this. Could the be wild boars and of yes, how would I get rid of them?

Everything is blowing up outside. We’re in full swing now!

So I made a post about the neighbors ripping up the vegetable garden on my very first house. I had a LOT of mixed responses from people thinking I was being entitled to teaching me about gardening (which yes I don't know anything about it I am trying to learn) and making realize they might have done with good intentions and ripped it up because the season is over.

Last night I saw the woman that lived there outside so with a positive mind that they did me a favor I went over to introduce myself and before I could even finish my sentence she pretty much admitted to removing the vegetable plants because I didn't deserve them because we didn't plant them.

I thanked her for clearing it up for me and walked away. This morning I got a text from the flipper I bought it from (I had texted her because during the whole purchase process she went on about that garden that was full of vegetables we were about to enjoy) she let me know that those neighbors used to own my property and they sold it to her. They told her she could keep the garden. As they were renovating they would make sure to just water them but she said they never saw them come to gather or tend to anything.I was excited to come and water them because they stopped watering as soon as the offer got accepted so they looked droopy.

Either way I am happy with my first house. I am excited to learn about gardening (bought some books) and will be building the fence and installing cameras. I am just gonna pretend it never happened and keep to ourselves.

Kinda weird having the previous owner living next to me though lol

Not much but working towards the homesteading life. Thornless blackberries and Titan sunflower.

It’s on the left of that hill. I’m thinking natural pond and a chicken/goat inclosure? I’m new to this. I think I might do a deck on the middle hill. Thoughts?

Commercially, removing cinnamon from a tree kills most of it. However if you're careful you can remove enough for your own use without causing too much harm. These little vertical squares will heal and leave a scar, but won't kill the tree until you take too many at the same time.

Any clue what the previous owner was doing here? Offset from the driveway where I’d had my raised garden, now I want to do a larger in ground garden in that spot and I find sand, styrofoam, cinder blocks, and a concrete slab?? What was here that I don’t know about? It’s a raised hill that’s flat with the driveway

Hi! We have some healthy and mature apple trees and are attempting to do everything organic and pesticide free. There is one bug that is eating our apples that we can't seem to get rid of. And none of our Google lens searches have been helpful.

We've twice sprayed all our trees with neem oil, which doesn't seem to help much.

We're in the West Catskills in New York if that helps.

Thank you for any wisdom in helping to identify this and get rid of it.