To Chuck weedkiller over fence ?

I have this same problem! Next door has thorn bushes growing all along the fence, they reach over our 6ft fence and I have young children! I had no idea you could put weed killer on the ends of plants I thought it had to be at the root. Would it work on thorn bushes though?

Bloody hell! No you absolutely can't throw weedkiller (or anything else) into your neighbour's garden! What are you thinking??
What your neighbour does with their own garden is absolutely none of your business, however annoying you find it. You need to stick to your own garden.

Definitely don't throw weedkiller over the boundary fence, @incognitodorrito - you're leaving yourself wide open to a potential claim of criminal damage... not to mention other nasties!

A few years ago, my parents NDN put down some weedkiller on their side of the fence, to get rid of their garden weeds. It seeped through the soil against the fence and killed not only a shrub of sentimental value to my parents, but also poisoned their cat (who never left their garden, and liked to lie in the shadey soil under the shrub. Because the cat died (a horrible death, too, as it happens), as the vets couldn't save him - my parents had a post mortem done on him. When they realised the shrub was done for, too, they actually took the neighbour to the small claims court for a replacement shrub, the vets fees and the cost of the PM/toxicology reports - and won. My father (ex-policeman) also explained to the upset neighbour that they were very lucky that they'd not been reported to the police - but that if it had been their dog who'd ended up poisoned/dead, they wouldn't have hesitated to press charges (dogs = property, whereas cats don't).

My parents and their neighbours are no longer friends - and all because they didn't think about the potential consequences of getting shot of a few dandelions around the bottom of their rose bush...

It's really not worth it, OP.

Don't use weedkiller ever, toxic, poisonous, causes cancer, kills wildlife. You would be beyond unreasonable to put it anywhere where someone didn't know it was there.

Don't even think the vinegar/salt thing is ok - accept that the boundaries are protecting them from you as much as you from them.

I think you're a bad neighbour op.

Get it from Aldi, vinegar is around 30p per bottle and salt is around the same.

It did work 👍
I put two tubs of salt and six bottles of white vinegar with just a small squirt of washing up liquid in it.
Mix well until the salt dissolves.

Rocksalt or road salt is your friend here! Tip it over and along the fence line

I did it with my neighbours jungle. I mixed a bucket full of salt and white vinegar with a little washing up liquid.and poured the lot over.

That’s incredibly unlikely to ever happen and if it did it might prove that weed killer killed the plants but that’s all

It would most definitely happen if I suspected weed killer had been tipped over my fence.

And where would the weed killer have come from?

I think a manicured and overly neat garden looks naff and out of date now. Give me a bit of wilderness here and there, and all the creatures that can survive in it. Wildflower meadows, logpiles.
My garden is definitely more wild than my neighbours would like, but they do strangely like all the wildlife it sustains.
I have many nesting birds, owls, lots of hedgehogs, foxes, the occasional badger, rabbits, bank voles, slow worms, a very occasional grass snake in the compost heap, frogs, toads and invertebrates galore including honeybees from a hive nearby, butterflies and moths, beetles, flower spiders, fat garden spiders, bumblebees. It is really amazing how many creatures a little garden can support.
We all need to do our bit to sustain biodiversity and that means leaving areas untouched and overgrown and allowing peaceful areas. I pull up most nettles but like my mother I always leave some for butterflies and soup. I get wrens nesting in the ivy. Blackbirds in the hedges.
I am really shocked by this thread, while the world floods and burns the answer seems to be to pour poison into your neighbours garden, an action which is both illegal and dangerous.

I can confirm that human man pee kills all weeds extremely quickly.

You can pass it off as cat or fox pee.

You mentioned having a large garden requiring lots of fencing, thats why I said my own garden is large too because it’s …y’know …relevant

I completely understand how you're feeling, OP. When we moved into our house our garden was a haven of falling down fences and brambles. We were approached by a number of the neighbours, with adjoining gardens to ours, moaning about the state of our garden, and asking if we were planning on sorting out the garden and fences anytime soon because they were sick of looking at our overgrown brambly garden and falling down, holey fences. We have around 13 houses with gardens adjoining ours and the following year we cleaned up our entire garden and re-fenced the lot.

So this year (2 years after re-fencing) we have noticed that there is ivy growing through one fence panel and trying to push the slats apart, brambles growing over and under a number of the fence panels, and someone has piled loads of earth against one of our panels and it's causing a panel to start bowing. We've asked the neighbours to move the earth against the panel and he keeps saying he'll do it but three months down the line it still hasn't been moved. Some of these houses are from the neighbours who originally moaned to us about the old fences. People are so bloody inconsiderate with other people's money- fencing isn't cheap and we have put in almost 50 fence panels altogether so obviously don't want to replace the ones that the neighbours are starting to destroy. It's so infuriating.

Our local authority is good at sorting this type of dispute. Unkempt gardens etc . As it is encroaching on your property, I would try this route.

Don't put weedkiller on anything that grows into your property she can do you for criminal damage and if she doesn't there is nothing to stop her from spraying your whole garden with weedkiller..this is what I would do if someone did it to me and by the time I would be finished there wouldn't be anything alive for at least 6 months or longer..by the looks of it you have far more too lose than she does.

Shocked at how many people think its fine to damage /kill another person's property!

No this is MN where shoplifting, benefit fraud and various other crimes are just greeted by a shrug. So a bit of criminal damage isn’t going to bother them

😱 Shocked at how many people think its fine to damage /kill another person's property!

Dancingonmoonlight you may find Ivy more of a challenge with just weedkiller. If you can cut off its lifeline(s) ie main stems as low down as possible, the ivy will die and drop, though it does take ages. Be prepared for endless dead leaves for a while but it does work. Just cut a gap on as many stems as you can and then keep your eye out for new runners.

It's a war of attrition I tell you!
I feel your pain though not to the extent you are obviously suffering with your neighbour. I would have thought such behaviour warrants prosecution. Sympathies.

[quote incognitodorrito]Anyone ever tried this ?
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its an expensive way to buy vinegar (well non brewed condiment) and even their own write up doesn't sound promising
"A ready-to-use formulation containing 60g/l acetic acid Controls annual and perennial weeds FOR USE ONLY AS AN AMATEUR WEEDKILLER DIRECTIONS FOR USE It is good practice to wear gloves when using this product although this is not a requirement. A minimum interval of 7 days must be observed between applications. When To Use: RHS Weed killer is a non-selective weed and moss killer active against most soft plant tissue with which it comes in contact. Weeds or moss are controlled by covering their foliage completely and evenly with spray. Soon after spraying, the foliage of treated moss or weeds begins to wither and die. Plant roots are not killed and new foliage may grow, particularly from the roots of perennial weeds. Annual weeds with small roots and moss may die back completely but re-treatment will usually be necessary, especially to keep down perennial weeds. Use to achieve control of weeds and/or moss. Best results are achieved against moss and tender, small weeds less than 10 cm high. Ideally spray in spring and repeat as necessary over the growing season, up to a maximum of 6 applications per year Comes with Long Hose trigger for easy application"

Contains: 5L Sprayer and 5L Weed Killer NOTE: The colour of the bottle may vary