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Bang a load of copper nails in?
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Delete one branch a month under cover of darkness, until it is gradually gone. If anyone queries, deny all knowledge and question their sanity.
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Check your allotment rules, as most prohibit growing non-food plants beyond flowers for cutting for the table. Growing a sycamore would be a fairly significant transgression.
Woman in the plot next to mine pisses and moans about the light to her plot (was texting me about fruit trees that were still in their pots, trying to tell me where to put them), and then moved the path running in front of her plot, planted a hazel arch at the front of her plot which shades the neighbour opposite because she's totally failed to prune or shape it, and planted a shit ton of Jerusalem Artichokes that she never digs up - and a fucking oak tree (which someone - not me - appears to have had a go at over the summer) - right next to my sunniest bed.
I generally take the position that what someone does on their plot is their business, but it rankles from someone who is forever giving grief about what other people are doing on theirs.
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Anyone got any advice about what to do about a big tree on the opposite plot that blocks our light? The plot holder is known as ‘Santa’ cos he only visits once a year so there’s zero chance of him taking care of it and it’s realistically reached a point where it needs a pro to deal with it. It’s a sycamore so dense crown and of no use to anyone, it’s reached a point where over the next couple of years it’ll get really big. As an ex-tree surgeon I could bang it in an hour but as the allotment officer knows I used to work in the industry and it mostly affects us it’ll be pretty obvious it was me and obviously it’s not mine to deal with.
Plot holder is a bit older so even if he did care about it he wouldn’t be able to deal with it.
In 3 years I think I’ve only met him twice.
Allotment officer is fairly useless, she’s more interested in busy-bodying people who’ve gone an inch over their boundary than dealing with the real issues on site. She didn’t bother turning up for inspection day yesterday, bit rude as my partner and at least a dozen others had taken the morning off to see her in person to address various issues.
The tree means we get 2-3hrs less sunlight in the afternoon than the neighbouring plot.