To Chuck weedkiller over fence ?

[incognitodorrito]

I recently paid £7 K to fence in my garden. Both neighbours very tight and I wanted a safe garden so I've paid the lot. I won't ever be able to afford to finance this again. The neighbour on one side is allowing her garden to go to pot and I've got thorns and weeds and branches growing over and pushing against my new lovely fence. She did not allow my fencer to cut anything back on her side which ok fine, but now it's pushing against my fence. Her garden is so absolute mess but she doesn't seem to want to do anything about it any I don't want the fence damaged. AIBU to cut back what comes on my side and Chuck weed killer over the side ...?

Op is clearly determined to chuck the weedkiller so not sure why you would post here?

I have the same issue.

A very expensive fence is being damaged by weeds, Ivy, brambles. . I’m not going to sit back and let it happen after Ivy and weeds broke the last fence.

Our NDN’s garden is a mess and she has a loose compost heap of food scraps which attracts vermin too.

There is no talking to her.
Last year I called health authorities and even they couldn’t get through to her.

What weed killer can I use that simply touches the weeds and Ivy and kills it?

@incognitodorrito

I recently paid £7 K to fence in my garden. Both neighbours very tight and I wanted a safe garden so I've paid the lot. I won't ever be able to afford to finance this again. The neighbour on one side is allowing her garden to go to pot and I've got thorns and weeds and branches growing over and pushing against my new lovely fence. She did not allow my fencer to cut anything back on her side which ok fine, but now it's pushing against my fence. Her garden is so absolute mess but she doesn't seem to want to do anything about it any I don't want the fence damaged. AIBU to cut back what comes on my side and Chuck weed killer over the side ...?

I'd do it, but I'd also have had brick walls built instead of an easily damaged fence. I'd want something permanent for that sort of money.

Round Up Gel. It's direct contact so no spraying needed. It's a bit of a faff as you paint each plant individually, thus avoiding wider harm. It works over a couple of weeks back to the root.

Don't chuck anything over, tempting though that is.

People who think rampant and invasive mares tail, bindweed, brambles, couch grass, ground elder etc are something you should put up with are welcome to think that and keep them firmly in their own property. It's seriously antisocial to let uncontrolled weeds invade neighbouring gardens.

You could throw pests like aphids onto her hedge and they should soon try to destroy it. Possible to buy them live on ebay or via garden centres

@BlackTee40 in my area and for the length of border (long narrow garden) you wouldn't have been able to get it bricked for £7k. I had quotations from 4 separate fencers and this was the second cheapest !

campion Thank you!!!

@BeenHereForAges

I'd do it.

But I'd do it covertly.

Me too. Under cover of darkness.

Salt will kill everything. I tip it on ragwort roots in my horse field to kill them off. Make sure you don't get it near any plants you want to keep

The advice on the gardeners world website for weeds growing from underneath is to push a physical barrier down (they suggest slates). So maybe a combined approach of cutting down from the top, throwing stuff back over, and a physical barrier at the bottom. Will also be more permanent than weed killer.

[quote incognitodorrito]Anyone ever tried this ?
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RHS-Weedkiller-5L-plus-5L-RHS-Pump-Sprayer-Advanced-Glyphosate-Free-Formula-/323774589268?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l6249&mkrid=710-127635-2958-0[/quote]
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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

@Berkeys

OP is BU that is! Weedkiller needs to be banned

Agreed. Especially Roundup! There is a reason that Bayer (Monsanto) no longer sell it to the public in USA.

@EvenRosesHaveThorns

Absolutely not, would you think someone chucking harmful chemicals, linked to cancer, into your garden, without your knowledge, was acceptable? You're off your rocker. Just prune back what comes over your side, don't sneakily apply chemicals. If their garden is overgrown, it's likely home to lots of wildlife, which the chemicals could have crippling effects on.

Totally agree with this.

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

You can pass it off as cat or fox pee.

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.

@SirVixofVixHall i dont have an overtly neat garden. I would like to use the space though and I'd also like the investments I've made for my family not to get damaged by an antisocial overgrown mess next door.

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?

Honestly, the garden is so overgrown, if the weeds and bushes etc pushing against the fence were to die, I don't think she'd actually notice !