'Wrecked my landlady's flower garden': Duplex resident discovers landlady stole from her garden, she enacts petty revenge

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Nov 5, 2024 2:00 PM EST

Most people have had fantasies of enacting some sweet vengeance on their landlords. Let's be honest: most of the time, that revenge would be earned. Whether it's raising your rent to an unnecessary amount or ignoring your incessant requests to repair that leak in your ceiling, you could probably spend hours talking about all the reasons why your landlord deserves some sort of comeuppance.

Here, we have the resident of a duplex who had recently gotten into gardening. Unfortunately for the Redditor, their landlady lived above them in the same duplex, so they often ran into each other. The Redditor always kept their gardening to themselves and never overstepped or touched anything belonging to their landlady. However, the landlady did not exactly extend the same courtesy to the original poster (OP). In fact, she ended up stealing one of her supplies simply because she liked the look of it (what is she, eight years old?!). That's when OP decided it was time to get even… garden style.

Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions from folks in the comments section. For more, check out this post about an entitled Karen mother and the tumultuous wedding planning process.

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    Wrecked my landlady's flower garden This happened in the summer of 2020. I live in the bottom unit of a duplex house with my mom and sister when I'm not at school. Landlady and her family live in the upper unit.
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    That summer, I decided to do a bit of gardening. I had access to good, organic fertilizers from a research greenhouse I was working at, as well as seeds and even a little space to grow them until they reached their transplanting stage. So I made good use of my employee perks and planted some
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    herbs on the employee bench in one of the greenhouses. Always wanted a little herb pot for fresh summer salad dressings and soups. After transplanting my herbs into a nice garden pot I bought at Walmart, I brought my herb pot home and placed it in the
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    backyard, right beside the shed. It was partially shaded, out of the way, and didn't obstruct the view of my landlady's flower garden from her bedroom window. In fact, you wouldn't even know it was there unless you walked past the shed because that's how hidden it was.
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    Fast forward a week. I came home one day and went to check on my herbs only to find the pot had been moved to the edge of the garden and was EMPTY. pulled out my herbs that I've been growing for over a month and said she liked the pot so she's using it for her own flowers. She also had
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    the gall to make me take care of them and the rest of her garden because she was leaving town for a week and I worked in a research greenhouse so I had access to good gardening materials. What she didn't know was that I was a plant pathology assistant. Perfect chance for a bit of petty revenge. I agreed to take care of her plants.
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    Most of her flowers were pretty resistant to diseases, but she had three rose bushes (red, yellow, and pink) that she absolutely loved. Bought the bushes back in 2017 for a total of $500, and she showed them off to anyone who dropped by for a visit.
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    So I went to work the next day with a few jars and snuck a bunch of pests and infested soil into them. Went home and released them all into her garden. Took a few weeks for the results to show but oh boy, those bugs did their job. Spots started appearing all over the plants and flowers from the aphids
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    and thrips. Then, the nematodes got to work, eating up the roots. Damaged roots also started rotting. Her dahlias in my pot were more resistant to nematodes, but a bit of clay in the pot to block off drainage and the roots started to rot.
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    By the end of the summer, her garden was ruined. She had to dig up the entire garden to get rid of the nematodes. Better yet, not once did she suspect me! She thought the squirrels and birds infected her plants. She ended up having to buy new roses the next year, which costed her $600 (she
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    bragged about how expensive they were). In the end, my revenge took , it was a while, but satisfying.
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    MsMacGyver 8 hr. ago I hope you took your pot back.
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    CoderJoe1 8 hr. ago • She reaped what she sowed.
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    Logan9Fingerses 8 hr. ago Nothing petty about that. You went full scorched earth
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    ConfusedAt63 · 7 hr. ago Blooming good story!
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    Notmykl. 5 hr. ago She stole your planter and vandalized your plants. I would've told her if she doesn't want to have a theft and vandalism charge she better get my plants back in the planter in 10 minutes.
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    Emotional_Print8706 9 hr. ago Bravo OP!!!
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