To want a really healthy green

[Micklinge]

Lawn? Our front garden is connected to our neighbours. They are very keen gardeners as in mowing the lawn every other day, sprinklers on for hours every night and thousands of pounds worth of plants.

I like to keep my lawn looking green and healthy instead of yellow and patchy so I mow the lawn once a week. The problem is that everytime they mow their lawn they go over the boundary and mow ours. It has increased slowly and is standing at 2 foot over now.

AIBU to not want this to be happening and to want it nice and green? I would like to keep on good terms with our neighbours and don't want a confrontation about it. Any advice would be appreciated.

Can you get some cheap things to stick along your edge of the lawn? Garden ornaments or solar lights with spikes or something. Not as a permanent feature but just as a gentle pointer to them.

Cozie - good idea, thanks. Really didn't want to go down the fence route.

Yes those cheap garden lights would b brilliant.

What kind of spacing would you leave between the lights. They need to fill about 20ft. Thanks

Well I wouldn't buy too many, cheap though they are, if they're not to be permanent. You don't want to break the budget after all.

Your call.

Can't you ask them not to mow your bit of lawn?

Binky - they are always drunk

Ah I see. They might mow over your new lights!!

If you want a lovely lawn you need to cut it much more frequently than once a week.It is yellow and patchy because it is getting too long before you mow it.When the grass is cut it sends out more shoots thickening up your grass and filling in the gaps and choking out weeds (who do not cope so well with being cut)

Xylem-my grass isn't yellow and patchy, my whole lawn is lovely and green. Their lawn is yellow and patchy.

Oh dear! I wonder why that is?

and I opened this thinking the Op would be "FENCE" !!

Get some of this and put it at the boundary, its only small so not like a fence but will stop them doing it?

Your neighbours are mowing your lawn for you and you mind ?

What goofy suggested!

Conference - they aren't mowing my lawn they are shaving two foot of it down to soil at points with their enthusiastic mowing.