Garden Theft

[Molalla1]

My dogs used to eat the black caps before I could get them!

They must have been ripe . . .

 

[Molalla1]

...continue the tangent...
...these stories reminds me of growing up on 70's dairy farm. Strange station wagon pulls into drive. Family rolls out. They were just randomly driving around from tourist town 20+ miles away (Lake George). They were from New York City! That might of as well as been the Moon to a 10year old. The father was a red nosed Irish cop right (fit the perfect stereotype) with a larger than life personality. We'd compare and contrast our two worlds. They'd come back for a few hours every year.
I remember being a bit older, I had just learned to drive a tractor & had raked a 20 ace hay field. They asked me later what I'd been doing so I told them. His response was "Your arms must be tired." I probably said: "Not too bad" (Thinking: Huh?? - I mean the tractor didn't have power steering, but I managed. ) One of those odd comments that took me years to figure out he probably believed I'd done it by hand!

:laughing: Sometimes back in the day late 40's early 50's we still did it around the edges that way.

 

[Jstpssng]

:laughing: Sometimes back in the day late 40's early 50's we still did it around the edges that way.

One year at orchard where I worked a few winters the owner hired a hippie named Darryl Hannah to help with the pruning. He lived in a one room house with no plumbing, and was telling about how his water started tasting funny so he cranked and cranked the pump until finally pieces of a mouse came out, so he figured it was OK and kept using the water. He couldn't imagine why anybody would spend $1200 on a mower (in 1982) when they could give people jobs doing the mowing with hand scythes. There just happened to be a few trees with raspberries growing under them and when the pruning was finished his job was over, but instead they gave him a scythe and told him to have at it. He worked for three days but didn't come back for the fourth day.

 

[dragoneggs]

My neighbor has a couple apple trees and a couple plum trees... and begs us to 'steal' all we want. We leave a bag of vegetables from our garden on their doorstep regularly. Of course we are not growing for profit and it is so nice to have caring neighbors.

 

[Molalla1]

My neighbor has a couple apple trees and a couple plum trees... and begs us to 'steal' all we want. We leave a bag of vegetables from our garden on their doorstep regularly. Of course we are not growing for profit and it is so nice to have caring neighbors.

Nice corporation between you two . . . I got a lot of that going on my way . . . :thumbsup:

 

[bunyip]

We have done the same with limes, a local gardener has none but loves growing veges so it works well, he puts them on a stand at the front of his place for sale with an honesty box, he reckons that about 50% pay, I have put in an IOU on my way home and he is fine with that, like a lot I often don't carry cash or just have a $50 on me and he has something we want that I hadn't planned on, he also picks up as much horse manure from here as he wants and just leaves a note when we are not home and he has been around, usually with a pumpkin or something.
I don't mind as it is good to see some activity happening, discourages potential thieves.

I have googled black caps and a few variants and only come up with headwear, what are they exactly as we have not heard of them.

 

[PILOON]

We had a local abandoned farm that had a dozen or more apple trees that we liked to harvest come fall.
That all stopped when local pot growers took over and met me with a loaded shot gun.
They liked the apple orchard as a coverup for their pot harvest.
We later learned that the farm (7-800 acres) hosted some 8-9 pot plantations.
Now days they prefer indoor activity, so it seems.

 

[mapper]

My neighbor has a couple apple trees and a couple plum trees... and begs us to 'steal' all we want. We leave a bag of vegetables from our garden on their doorstep regularly. Of course we are not growing for profit and it is so nice to have caring neighbors.

We have a lot of neighbors that we share garden produce with, some share in return, others are there to help us on projects around the place (also reciprocal). We have one neighbor who is always willing to take, but never does anything in return. I no longer share with them....

 

[Jstpssng]

We had a local abandoned farm that had a dozen or more apple trees that we liked to harvest come fall.
That all stopped when local pot growers took over and met me with a loaded shot gun.
They liked the apple orchard as a coverup for their pot harvest.
We later learned that the farm (7-800 acres) hosted some 8-9 pot plantations.
Now days they prefer indoor activity, so it seems.

It just became legal in this state. (Although growing/possession/distribution is still a federal offense.) I don't really care one way or the other, except that now people will be growing it on their own land instead of on somebody else's.

 

[Jim Shooz]

This morning I was quietly helping myself to some of my neighbours oranges thinking he was away when he called out from behind a wall "how's your day going". we're still friends.