To tell my neighbour to sod off next time she comments on my garden

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My neighbour has a habit of popping her head over the fence and commenting on my garden. Nothing overly nasty, but I did say to her one time that I don't particularly enjoy gardening and she said "yeah, we can tell".

It's not a big garden but I work long hours and it's just not high on my priorities during the week. My neighbour is retired.

I had the week off this week and I've busted ass getting all the weeds up, driveway spotless, grass cut. I was feeling very pleased with myself.

Well today, a whole team of gardeners has shown up and are blitzing her garden while she's sitting drinking rosé and chatting with her friend!!!

WIBU to tell her to sod off next time she pops her head over and says "ooo your grass needs cut", because she doesn't even do her own bloody gardening!!!

This thread is lighthearted before anyone jumps in. I don't actually care whether she does her own garden or not! (I'm actually very jealous )

In your shoes, I'd tell her that I'm planning on taking up gardening once retired.

The bit of 'gardening' I would prioritise is privacy so maybe consider planting along that fence boundary so she can no longer see/comment.

Brilliant response

It's a 7ft high fence! She's pushed a bench against it so that she can step up and pop her head over.

Next time she comments say ,

Well you must be hopeless at gardening since you have to get others in to do it for you.
Or
Did you hire them just for the eye candy
Or
At least I did mine my self and didn't sit around getting drunk while others did the work .

Ignore. My neighbour offered to help me keep on top of my garden because ‘I obviously was unable to’ for the generous price of £20 an hour. I said I would think about it and have ignored him since! Just adds to my reasons I think he is a twat!

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The cheeky mare ! I'd get a motion sensor sprinkler 😀💦💦

Next time she comments on your garden, I'd comment on her drinking when it's barely midday.

Cheeky gits! They need to mind their own business.

One of my neighbours friends also pops his head over the fence occasionally to offer his services (at a cost).

Tell her you are looking forward to retirement and will be getting 2 goats and some hens... Leave her to imagine the smells drifting into her garden.

You'll just have to build your own mini Eden Project style completely closed in, semi opaque, thermoplastic dome, covering the whole of your back garden. That'll fox her.

In fact, given the state of the world today, that could actually prove to be a very sound investment, creating your own private biosphere.

To be fair, if I didn't have to drive later I probably wouldn't be too far behind her

Buy a catapult..

Next time,say to her that you've been busy working and not all of us have the luxury at the moment. Feel free to give a hand if if bothers you that much.

If she mentions it again tell her if it her bothers her so much you have no problem if she wants to pay her gardener to come round to do yours too.

If she stuck her head over the fence and tried to engage with me she'd be getting one word answers and a hard stare.

Say ‘You seem strangely preoccupied with my garden, Brenda. Is there something lacking in your own life that means it looms so large in your worldview?’

Surely she's pushed a bench up against a fence because having them sitting around in the middle of the garden is just weird though and it's normal to have them against something? I think you're reading too much into that one.
YANBU about the rest though, tell her to send her gardeners round to yours next time she says something.

Going against the grain and saying you really should do some gardening.

Try some nice running bamboo right by the fence, under-planted with bindweed. Perhaps a bit of Russian vine would be nice, and I always like lots of mint. Plenty of green alkenet for pollinators too. Oh, and three-cornered garlic. Show your neighbour your hard work!

Next time ask for the number for her gardener! Bench to see over is bloody cheeky.

Or a super soaker!

This made me giggle

@pelargoniums : You are an evil genius 🤣

Our retired neighbour keeps passively aggressively cutting our front lawn (not that we mind) when he thinks it is too long. His last comment was he thought we were away as we hadn't done it for 2 weeks - to be fair it was a bit overgrown.
But we both work full time (well me 30 hours), have 2 kids to ferry to activities in the week and had been away 2 out of the previous 3 weekends.

It never gets properly overgrown and we keep it tidy....it just wasn't up to his standard

Me:

you seem to have more time than me so feel free to have at it.

I have ‘if you’ve seen it and commented on it, then sort it’ policy

'Be careful getting down Beryl, it's a risk climbing on furniture at your age. Especially if you have had a bit to drink'.

You could throw in a concerned head tilt