to do my garden in the evening?

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I hate gardening and I especially hate doing it at the weekend, when I prefer to be out with the dogs or curled up on the settee with a book and wine

So I decided that DH and I would start doing the garden in the evenings after work rather than sacrifice time during the weekend.

Last night, we did the front garden between 5.30 and 6pm (very very small front garden). Then we had some food and did the back between 6.45 and 7.45. I did the mowing first, so finished that at about 7 so that I wasn't disturbing people's evenings with my mower. Then from 7-7.45, we did the quiet shit like edging, weeding and clearing up.

When I was just finishing up with mowing, the gentleman who lives next door came out and gave me a right earful about being anti-social and too noisy. He's right moany bugger so I didn't pay too much attention.

But I don't think 6.45-7 is unreasonable and anti-social to mow your grass is it? Or is it?

I would start doing it at 7am on a Sunday morning. See how he likes that.

Of course YANBU! It's ok for people who are retired or who don't work to get their lawns done during the day but for people who work it is more difficult and evenings are fine IMO. Can't always be done at the weekend anyway due to the unpredictability of the weather and if there's a nice weekday evening I think it's sometimes the only option to get it done rather than wait until the weekend when it might be raining anyway!

Round here there are mowers going up until 9pm some nights. Doesn't bother me. Your neighbour is an arse. Ignore.

Everyone round me used to garden in the evening. ( in my next door neighbours case, smoke illicit fags in the shed)

Much nicer than watching tv and wasting a lovely summer evening. Ignore him, before 7pm to mow is fine.

YANBU. One of the normal sounds of a suburban Summer evening is the sound of lawnmowers (and the lovely scent of grass when you go out for a walk). Sounds like your neighbour is at home all day and thinks everyone else should have their chores done and dusted by teatime, to suit his schedule. 'Anti Social'? Really? I would have thought keeping your garden neat and tidy is the very opposite of anti social.

We've lived in our house for a year or so (our little girl is 15 months now) and last year our next door neighbour started to hammer & drill a new patio in in his back garden (which is right under our little girls room) at about 9pm. It woke LO up but we didn't want to be harsh with our neighbour (they don't have kids) so my husband went out and said really nicely 'just wondering if you've an idea of how long you'll be doing this as we'll just keep LO up and settle her down afterwards' our neighbour was fab and kept going about 15 mins.

Now they often garden until around 8pm which I think is totally fine! Our LO goes to bed at 7pm but thankfully isn't a light sleeper so not much wakes her! Even if it did though, I wouldn't dream of saying anything to them at that time....different story with the man (who we don't know) who's back garden pretty much backs on to ours who decided to set to work with a super loud petrol strimmer last night 9.45pm-10.30, I thought that was abit unreasonable!

Id rather you did it in the evening than early morning at the weekend!

Yanbu, nothing wrong in those times at all and much better than waking neighbours early on weekends, that is annoying. Theres a woman a few doors up across from me who uses a petrol mower and hedge trimmer on a sunday morning and it's so noisy i could throttle her!

Yabu. Mow your lawn at sunrise in the morning. 4:45am anyone!?

In all seriousness... 7pm isn't too late, you're not doing it for fun and with all non-fun jobs, you are being quick. Plus if your lawn becomes overgrown... Your neighbour would be the first one to complain.
YANBU

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Unless you can see next door clearly relaxing on a sunlounger, 7.30pm is fine

we back onto fields and they often harvest throughout the night in late summer. A lawnmower would hardly register

Mowing fine until 8 pm I think.

He's a twat, ignore him.

YANBU. You are actually being very considerate, 7.00 is early!

You could ask whether he's volunteering to come round and mow it during the day for you.

I think that, generally, lawn mowing until about 9pm is fine, unless your neighbours have small children or you have acres of grass which you mow with a souped-up ride-on mower (although in that case your neighbours will probably be too far away to hear anyway).

So YANBU.

at 'the quiet shit'

YANBU though. In fact, you're being very considerate by getting your mowing done before 7. I remember being a child and lying in bed listening to my dad mowing the lawn. Very comforting actually.

Yanbu. Everyone here does their gardens in the evening.

I must admit I do get a bit pissed off with the guy opposite who has a big petrol mower going at 9pm ! But 7pm is absolutely fine! :)

I agree with tail .... I love the sound and the smell of someone mowing grass in the evening, it takes me right back to being a little kid.

There are laws about when you can make a noise and stopping before 7pm is waaaaay before you have to, I'm sure!

YANBU, anything goes until 7pm and in fact our lovely ndn often garden after work although strimming at 8pm was a bit annoying as toddler wouldn't settle.

In fact I used to have a much bigger issue with mowers starting up at 8am on a Sunday when I lived on a busy estate, it was the one day of the week I could have a lie in and I was frequently not home until the early hours of Sunday!

Ah, I'm so glad I'm not being an anti-social, unreasonable cow!

None of my neighbours have young children so him moaning didn't even make sense from that point of view. In fact, the only kids around here are older (about 8 or 9) and were still out playing by the time we put everything away... and making far more noise than we were! Although, having said that, he has gone out moaning about the kids playing out in the past!

I knew I could rely on MN for an honest balance answer and to agree with me because I knew deep down I wasn't being unreasonable

I'd bloody love you. All my neighbours take turns to mow their lawns in nap time. Between them and the Jehovah's Witnesses, I'm murderous. I don't complain though, because they are perfectly reasonable to do their lawns then. As are you.

If I went out to mow the grass at 7.00 pm, I probably wouldn't be able to hear the mower over the sound of everyone else's. That's when we all do our mowing, when we get home from work.

I sometimes do it on Sunday morning, but only after checking for signs of life with the neighbours ie, their blinds/curtains are open or they're out and about themselves.

Your neighbour sounds unreasonable.

I think YANBU
That is not too late at all. I might be mindful of nieghbours with little kids though but only during term time and only after about 8'ish