To knock on neighbours door and explain front garden?

[Getonwithit1]

We have just moved from overseas however our shipping container has been held up. We get our belongings next week but our front garden looks untidy. Till we get our gardening equipment I can't do much about it. Do you think I should knock on the neighbours door and just explain we'll tidy it up as soon as we get our stuff?

No

No. I wouldn't specifically knock on everyones doors to let them know! Depending what needed doing, I might try trimming some things back or borrowing a lawn mower till your own things arrive, but otherwise- no. Just being in the front garden might lead to see and chatting to the neighbours and then you could mention the garden. To go around specifically though would be really odd.

No.
Maybe just knock and introduce yourself?

No!

Your NDN is not your mum.

Knock and introduce yourself. Maybe mention it as a passing comment but definitely don’t knock just to explain that.

No.
Your garden is not the business of your neighbours.
Please learn this quick.

odd one but yes i would, including saying hello and introducing myself. i live on the kind of street where people do this.

I personally wouldn't because I am no gardener and it would be a lie, so they would need to get used to it looking a mess tbh.

However if you are massively garden-proud usually and if their garden looks lovely, then I think it'd be decent to mention it.

If the shoe was on the other foot, would you want them to knock on at yours? Do as you would be done by I'd say.

It’s the middle of December and a huge cold spell - even with gardening equipment there’s very very little you can successfully do in the garden anyway! You can’t even sweep up leaves as they’re mostly frozen to the ground. And anyway, don’t start down the road of thinking you need to explain yourself to your neighbours ffs.

Well that's a good point. I'm not a gardening guru by any means but usually like to keep a tidy garden

What needs doing? Go buy a cheap brush or tool from poundstretcher or wilko to do the minimum
Or ask neighbour uf you can bortow a specifuc tool
Or pay a gardener three hours to come do it for you

I would certainly knock on to say hi and introduce myself.

Given what you've said, I would then mention the garden in passing.

Knock to say hello and introduce yourself but I don't think anyone would have expected you to be out gardening in a frozen garden in negative degree temperatures over the last couple of weeks.

in britain? isnt it covered in snow or ice

They probably don’t care and you’d sound a bit nuts explaining it away

It's winter, nobody expects you to be gardening.

I completely agree with this.

Most people appreciate it if neighbours keep their gardens well maintained BUT it is your garden and you can maintain it or not as you please.

Do not give your neighbours the impression that their approval is something you are willing to work for, you may come to regret it.

Op have you decided if you are moving one side of the USA to the other or UK to Ireland yet?

You sure do get around OP. No one will care about your garden in December, it'll be frozen. Depending on if you're in England/Ireland or USA.

Of course you should knock & explain.

Your poor new neighbours are going through existential contortions, trying to work out if the front garden next door is on Irish or American soil.

I'd just trot round with a Christmas card this week and introduce yourselves, and if time/appropriate explain you're waiting on the shipping container as you can't get started with many household things or tidying the garden etc till it arrives.

In the nicest possible way, what planet are you on to think that tidying your garden after moving from overseas the week before Christmas should take precedence over the other million jobs on your to-do list?

It's an alternative planet Fezzi - where England, Ireland & the USA are interchangeable.
It's a confusing place to live - so much so that OP has started separate threads naming each country as the place she is emigrating from/moving to in the last couple of months.
I hope she is able to get the space-time continuum sorted ahead of her next no doubt thrilling instalment.