To silently seethe about neighbours weeds in my garden (pics)

[annoyedneighbour1]

They're growing over, under and through the fence.

I've been cutting them when they grow through for the last 2 years but this year they're growing like never before. Almost faster than I can cut them! I think the fence will end up damaged.

I last cut them 10 days ago and they look like this already. I don't have the time to keep up with it as well as my own garden.

They never use their garden and it's a complete jungle. The whole thing is covered with massive weeds and ivy.

The reason I haven't said anything yet is because whoever lived here before us planted conifers in the front garden. I keep them well trimmed on my side, but they don't cut it on theirs and it looks such a mess. I couldn't cut their side of it without going into their front garden. I think if I mention the weeds growing through the fence, they will just say 'but your conifer encroaches on our front!' And they would be right! Even though I didn't plant the damn thing! Gah!

After asking many times for my neighbour to stop growing ivy and bindweed on our fence I poured something through the gaps that I would never use on a garden as I am a green gardener but I am thoroughly fed up with having to replace fence panels and rip stuff off the fence. Neighbour will pull up weeds everywhere except those that damage stuff.

Also doesn't treat mildew or fungal diseases so of course my plants get those too.

Also never trims trees so there is a lot of stuff leaning on the rest of the fence and hanging over. Just to top it off I am removing endless cherry trees from the lawn from the fruit that falls off into our side. The little bastards pop up almost overnight.

Lazy gardener, pain in the arse.

Put a note through and suggest you cut the conifers, and squirt weedkiller through the fence, near the bottom, then water it. It might need more than one application.

Brambles are a bastard whether you look after your garden or not.

Short of digging them up at root (neighbours) there's not much you can do other than keep cutting the new growth your side.

And yeah spray a load of weedkiller under fence etc.

Maybe your neighbours don't have the equipment to deal with the conifers ? I would offer to cut it back next time that you do yours and then mention the weeds from their garden.

I would paint glyphosate on any vegetation coming through. It will be absorbed into the plant and the plant will eventually die back.

squirt weedkiller through the fence, near the bottom, then water it
What sort of weed killer do you mean?
Systemic weed killers such as glyphosate need to go on the plant, they're deactivated by soil. Don't water those, it'll just wash it off and waste it.

You’re better off poking them back through than cutting them tbh. If you cut them they just grow back, but if they’re squished back through they’ll be facing a different direction when they continue to grow (as they will).

Our neighbour has fence to fence, 6ft high brambles. They are even growing in their garage and parking space. Underneath is all the old appliances and floor boards and loft insulation from their house. Their fence is being pushed over by the sheer volume of brambles. An eyesore and a rat haven.

do we share the same neighbour?

I feel your pain but I also have bindweed and .... BAMBOO!! Plus the brambles and ivy.

I could cry some days, I just can't keep up with it all despite very carefully spraying the worst of it with strong weedkiller.

Thinking of moving ...😪

Well, if my neighbour is reading this, I apologise now for the ingress of brambles bindweed and god knows what else into her garden.

I'll get onto it just as soon as the NHS sort my knee out, and I'm sorry it's taken them 3 years and more.

And if my other NDN is reading this, sort the fucking wild clematis in your garden out so it's not colonising mine, and give me a little less to do.

I feel for you. My Neighbor's are the same.

It’s a joke. They are lazy twats!!

I buy a bottle or 2 of weed killer and literally pour it over there fence.

if they don’t like it they can bloody cut it back.

I used a spray one, but I removed the top and poured it on to the ground. Ivy has now gone. I am currently working on the bindweed.
It went into the ground and it worked.

I had previously tried the suggestion to put weedkiller in a bottle and crush the stems, poke them into the bottle and close it up, then leave to absorb. It did nothing so I got serious.

Stump killer can be good too. I can't remember which makes though, the last stuff I used didn't work, it was in little tubes inside a box. It killed nothing, anywhere, even when used according to instructions. Trial and error is the way to go. Roots can absorb stuff, it just takes longer and looks less suspicious if it dies slowly.

That's a dreadful bramble infestation. God knows what it looks like the other side. Weedon won't work it will be like pissing in the wind.

Had this issue with my NDN. I had spent years making my garden look nice. The old NDN died and the house bought by a couple. They never did the gardens.
I spoke to them about it and turned out they used to live in a high-rise flat and didn't have equipment or knew where to start.
This has led to me helping them clear both the back and front garden. Yes I know. I now lend them the mower and we do the front hedges together.

Just pop a note through the door. The worst they can say is no, or they will be grateful like my neighbour

I wish my neighbour issues were confined to brambles. I do see your point though!

I just bought a few different types of weed killer…. Open the top and just pour the whole bottles over the fence. It does the trick… everything bordering on my fence is dead now

I have the same issue. Except for my neighbours are students and I can't trace the landlord. I paid £300 to clear the side access that I don't even own, but it's growing back again. I just can't keep on top of it.

Tbh I expect your conifers are causing much more annoyance to them that their weeds are to you!

Just spray them with weedkiller and put a note throgh the door asking if you can trim your confifers on their side

Open the top and just pour the whole bottles over the fence. It does the trick

I would NOT do this, sure spray the weedkiller on your side, but do not just pour it over the fence- there could be a pet sat there!

Our garden is like your neighbours. The problem is the brambles are coming in from another neighbour and taking over the garden.
We have someone ready to come and strim it back and hopefully get rid of it but first they had covid, and then we found a bees nest under it (there's also a hedgehog or two) so we're waiting for that to go before he does anything for obvious reasons. It's frustrating for me as well as I wanted to get the garden set up before Winter, but it's going to be next year now.

@ILikeHotWaterBottles - I like it too! But I appreciate that it's the OP who has to live with it, and she doesn't.

I've got similar neighbours it seems. Thick brambles pushing through my fence, plus they have a rats nest their side that we've told them about, but they choose to ignore as its not near their actual house (long garden). We've resorted to buying panels of rat cage type wire and burying it 4 foot deep along the fence line, plus a couple of foot above pinned tightly to our fence to stop the buggers coming through. The brambles get chopped off every fortnight when its green bin day.

THIS ^

Please don't use weed killer, it disturbs the physiology of worker bees, makes them more susceptible to systemic colony disease.

No bees. No trees. No life.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1803880115

My neighbour's garden is like a over grown forest. You can’t even walk through it. I’m talking waist deep bramble bushes.

A pet won’t even be able to move around it’s so over grown.

It’s a complete mess and to be honest if they were that bothered then they could cut it back.

The only voice of reason so far, thank you ❤❤

The amount of people suggesting pouring weedkiller everywhere is disturbing. No wonder we're having a biodiversity crisis.

Think of 'weeds' as wildflowers which the native wildlife needs. In any case, all these fancy (useless to wildlife) garden plants have been developed from what people call 'weeds'.