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We've been renting for a year in the current house in San Diego. Part of the deal is we have a "gardner".
Prior to today, this "gardner" trims the lemon tree virtually every 2 weeks (lemons on branches, new growth, flowers, etc).
On another occasion, they lopped off a flower spike from one of our cymbidium orchids (blooms once a year). It was on the porch in a planter.
We've told them to please only mow the grass and trim the Bougainvillea.
Today, I came home from the park with the kids...a little too late...
After a year of leaving my hops alone, he tried to move the pot with my second year Chinook (8 spikes popping up, mind you). Roots had grown through the bottom, and it apparently was none-too-easy to move. The hedge trimmers fixed that. When I arrived, the pot was balanced precariously on an upside gallon 5 gallon bucket!
What would possess them to mess with it?!? A year, he leaves it alone....TODAY HEDGE TRIMMERS TO THE ROOTS!!! There were roots the size of my thumb, cut through and through. I was beside myself. Heck, I am STILL beside myself.
Not only that but the pot was cracked. So, I repotted it, and will hope for the best. There's still a big root ball in that thing, and now there's new compost in there. The pot is bigger, and there's still holes for the roots to grow out of.
Oh, and my potting soil was spread all over the back yard.
I let the owner know, and they'll make right what they can, and get a translator to get the message across to the gardner that they are to leave my orchids, the lemon tree, and THE HOPS ALONE!!!
Hopefully this thread has a happy ending come 6 months from now...
Happy Hops Growing Season 2010!!!
Mike
Prior to today, this "gardner" trims the lemon tree virtually every 2 weeks (lemons on branches, new growth, flowers, etc).
On another occasion, they lopped off a flower spike from one of our cymbidium orchids (blooms once a year). It was on the porch in a planter.
We've told them to please only mow the grass and trim the Bougainvillea.
Today, I came home from the park with the kids...a little too late...
After a year of leaving my hops alone, he tried to move the pot with my second year Chinook (8 spikes popping up, mind you). Roots had grown through the bottom, and it apparently was none-too-easy to move. The hedge trimmers fixed that. When I arrived, the pot was balanced precariously on an upside gallon 5 gallon bucket!
What would possess them to mess with it?!? A year, he leaves it alone....TODAY HEDGE TRIMMERS TO THE ROOTS!!! There were roots the size of my thumb, cut through and through. I was beside myself. Heck, I am STILL beside myself.
Not only that but the pot was cracked. So, I repotted it, and will hope for the best. There's still a big root ball in that thing, and now there's new compost in there. The pot is bigger, and there's still holes for the roots to grow out of.
Oh, and my potting soil was spread all over the back yard.
I let the owner know, and they'll make right what they can, and get a translator to get the message across to the gardner that they are to leave my orchids, the lemon tree, and THE HOPS ALONE!!!
Hopefully this thread has a happy ending come 6 months from now...
Happy Hops Growing Season 2010!!!
Mike