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What is a garden worth? I killed one, and she ain't happy!
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boa628
Posted 5/14/2013 13:39 (#3097691 - in reply to #3096853)
Subject: RE: What is a garden worth? I killed one, and she ain't happy!


SWOH		Ask her how much she wants and then give her an extra hundred or two. How much garden are we talkin'? Don't cheap out on it and don't get an attitude with her even if she does. It was her garden and you killed it so you need to make it right. I've only done it twice so far and the first one I got, the lady was pretty upset. I dinged some tomatoes with 24D and even though 1/4 of them were over the property line I paid for all of them since I did get some that were on her property. I didn't mouth off about the ones in the field (it was about all I could do not to). She wanted $65 bucks so I gave her a hundred. I also dinged a few tomatoes in her neighbors garden right next to it and I talked to them and they said not to worry about it since the garden was right up to the field and it was just part of living out in the country. The second one I got was my fault but it's a tricky spot, field on three sides of it, the garden is a foot off the field, and unless the wind is dead out of the north there's no good way around it. I didn't wait for him to call, I talked to him as soon as I saw stuff starting to wilt. I offered to pay for it and help him replant it and he said not to worry about it and he realized it was in a tough spot. He just asked me to let him know in the future if I was going to be spraying there and he'd cover it up. Sometimes if he's not going to be home I'll tell him to leave the sheets in the yard and I'll cover it up and uncover it when I'm finished. That's not the only place I do that, either.

Garden's right on the field are a pain, but it is their property (as long as it is still on their property) and they can do what they want on it and if I damage their property I'm going to go beyond making it right. As long as I'm fairly confident I caused it. I had one guy that thought I killed his trees, except I was just spraying Dual and Simazine so I was pretty confident it wasn't me. We looked at the trees (small pine trees) and the grass was brown around them so I asked him if he sprayed Roundup around them and he said he had and I told him that was probably what got them. He said that possibility hadn't occurred to him. I had to explain to him how the different herbicides worked. Bottom line though, if you know you did it, go beyond making it right. She could make it a real big headache if she wanted to.
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