“I called police. I said (to them) I don’t want to waste your time, but I don’t want all the muppets coming here,” she said. “I don’t drink or do drugs, I don’t like any of that stuff or people who associate with it.

“I’d have all kind of creeps coming back here.”

When officers arrived, they were stunned at the size of the plant.

“They had to fold it in half to get it into a garbage bag. The base was two inches thick,” she said.

Const. Rich Williamson said like any other weed, property owners could just cut it and put it out with yard waste.

“It doesn’t take long to lose its quality. If you bury it, actually it’s no good the same day. It rots pretty quickly,” Williamson said.

He added police don’t often get called to remove marijuana in a person’s backyard.

Two years ago, officers busted a grow op on Lockhart Road after it was spotted from the second level of the GO train.