To be livid she's destroyed my plant

[Allyoli]

I had a comfrey plant growing on my allotment plot in the corner. It was about a metre tall, maybe 30cm wide? Totally within the bounds of my plot. And flowering. I like the flowers and the bees love it, so I left it to do it's thing.

Woman on the plot next to mine has the most perfect (albeit sterile) looking vegetable plot - everything in perfect squares, not a leaf out of place, only vegetables, no flowers. She's there for several hours every morning. She doesn't talk to or respond to anyone on the plot, which is obviously fine.

Anyway, in the past day or so she decided to take it upon herself to come over to my plot and completely flatten my comfrey plant. I could see footprints that aren't mine in the soil. I asked if she had done it and she admitted she had because the flowers will soon turn to seed and spread on her plot.

I'm livid. Surely anyone's plants/flowers/weeds in the entire allotment site could spread seeds to yout plot at any time? Whats she going to do next, destroy all my crops before they're ready in case they spread to her plot? Aibu? How can I get her to stay off my plot without things escalating?

I'd be blowing dandelions across her plot...

Revenge served cold.

Write a rude word in seeds (or daffodil bulbs!) on her plot, and wait.

Chuck a load of mustard seeds over her perfect plot 🤣

Sorry, you've bought out the child in me!

Ah, potential camera...

Do the thing from the great escape where they scatter soil from their trousers, but with seeds.

Or water her plants from a distance in mid day sun. With roundup.

I have borage taking over my garden. It's really invasive and the roots are horrendous to dig out. I'll send you some seeds for when the wind is blowing in her direction. I'll send a small battery hand fan too in case the wind isn't blowing.

Honestly, you need to escalate.

🤣

I love you.

Wild flower bomb her patch

Also comfrey leaves steeped in water make great fertiliser for tomatoes. What a cow.

Use the squashed comfrey to make fertiliser. Multiple buckets, water, comfrey - she won't want to be within ten miles of your plot.

Haha the trouser trick is a good one

I’d be out there at midnight and would be carpeting her plot with salt. What an absolute bitch.

Now I get why all the allotments rou d here have big fences and locked gates

I have loads of snails in my garden that I can post to you.

On my allotment site you can lose your tenancy if you trespass on someone else’s plot. I’d remind her of that if that applies to your site.

Is your comfrey Bocking 14 as that is the non-spreading variety and won't invade other plots? True comfrey can become invasive as it spreads easily through seed dispersion, and as it has very long tap roots (an advantage if you are harvesting the leaves to make compost tea fertiliser or for your compost heap) it can be very difficult to get eradicate.

Of course, that doesn't justify your neighbour's actions but it does indicate her possible thought process.

She deserves to be Trevor Jordache'd!

Do it…think of the bees 🐝 😁

If she's just chopped it off at the ground, it will probably sprout really rapidly. I cut mine down several times a year, for compost and fertiliser tea purposes, and it sprouts up again.

But, she's stolen YOUR plant, so demand it back!

Cow.

Shit on her plot

As previously mentioned, if it is Bocking 14 it won't spread by seed anyway.

The good thing about comfrey is that it grows back pretty fast anyway. So just take the trampled leaves and chop them around your tomatoes and they will feed them as they rot.

chuck snails in her plot

😂

I think I would have to have an actual conversation with her again and say you are genuinely very upset and disturbed that she felt she could touch your plant without permission. How would she feel if you did the same to hers? That in future you expect her to come to you with any questions or requests and if not you will have to consider your next actions very careful.

leave it ambiguous! Get her sweating about her perfect rows of beans!

I’d get a tissue full of seeds & have regular coughing fits & mock sneezes. So violent would these outbursts be that my arms would shoot into the air causing my tissue to land on her allotment.