On May 7, 6:10 pm, FragileWarrior
wrote:

Yesterday my neighbor cut down my foot tall sunflower that I carefully
nursed through our late freeze. Never trust a man with a weed-whacker.
I should have realized he was having just TOO much fun when the thing was
still whirring constantly and he had pretty much trimmed everything that
wasn't moving. And then he moved to our murky property line and BANG! my
sunflower was gone before I could scream, "STOP!"

Last year I planted about 60 of them. Not one grew.

I give.

Oh my, that's about as sad as watching your tomato plant with its
first tomato going down the gopher hole. We have fences here to
deter weed-whackers; I now use wire baskets for the gophers!
I think you just might have to whack his "wacker"!!
So sorry FW.
Emilie