Sweet neighbors but SHEESH!!!

[saddina]

Maybe a berry hedge? I'm a big fan of planting ediables, and since many berries had thorns....

 

[TammyTX]

...berry hedge or roses....maybe some decorative large rocks??

 

[The Wolf Queen]

I vote u hide in a bush with a paintball or BB gun and just wait...

(evil laugh)

 

[fasbendera]

I am a chicken lover but a chicken with conflict. We had neighbors who were trimming trees on our property, came over and asked if we had a fire burning in their backyard and had the nerve to ask a neighbor what we were cutting down in their backyard (Buckthorn) which is actually our property and well you get the idea. I knew the brush we were burning was on our property since our property meets up with the property two houses over and so their backyard is small. Anyway when we remodeled you have to have a certified survey done. So I put fence posts at all of the survey markers along our property line. I only did this after they took down one of the survey markers and installed a raised ceptic system 4 feet from our property line (yeah I know unvelievable) Now they need a fence post remover to miss the line. Your fence could be decorative split rail corners and a few shrubs they would get the idea. I get riled up just thinking about our friendly neighbors. They really were clueless and still are but that is another story.

 

[michickenwrangler]

My mother has a similar problem. Her lot is pie-shaped with the apex in her back yard. The one property line is also on a hill so the boundary is kind of tricky to mow around, so my mother always ends up mowing the neighbors.

The irony is the people next to her rent so they only mow their lawn once a month and it's infested with dandelions and pigweed. The little spot she mows is the best looking part of their lawn!

 

[cthrash1]

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Yeah, shoot n run.... FAST!!!

 

[cthrash1]

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Bet she gets iritated having to look at their yard all the time and fight all the pretty little weeds that find their way over to her yard...We used to have neighbors when we lived in TN that used to brag about hubby mowing his yard, the guy NEVER mowed and the city was threatening to chg him for them to mow it, so hubby mowed it to keep them out of trouble

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That side of our property is like between this / and this |. Not quite slanted but not quite straight up but the line itself has no bends. The other side takes a bend about halfway up this \\ again not quite as slanted(you get the idea?), but that neighbor knows where the stakes are because it is his cousin that used to own our house(actually his cousin built it). Even with the bend our neighbor over on the good side follows the line and there is field grass/hay, trees, stumps, lump of dirt with brush etc... actually one of the stakes on that side is right in the middle of a tree stump in the back corner of our property, that side is perfect. When we bought the place hubby found all but one of the stakes(they were cut level with the ground) but with the help of the neighbors that used to live on the ugly side and the neighbors on the good side we found our property lines and hubby installed new posts right next to the stakes. Just so happened that the missing stake was one the good side and the neighbor said the bush there was right on the line, which matched up perfect with our plat.

 

[cthrash1]

You guys all have so many great ideas, I'm going to go over them with hubby and see what he wants to do now

 

[Bec]

I don't know how you area is, but we have a neighbor that did that for long time along our entire property line on their side. The rest of our property is fenced and the property line is on the other side of the drive and their drive goes along side of ours about 40 feet away. There was no reason to put up fencing, so we had some old farm fencing posts and put them up along the driveway. It gives it a "farmy" look (we have about 3 acres, not a farm) and it keeps them mowing on their own side. They didn't know why we did it but said they liked it. It keeps the piece and you can have your lawn back!

 

[weaveagarden]

I always think the direct approach is the best. I would go over with a small gift (baked goods or something). I would simply and politely ask why they are mowing part of your lawn. Maybe they are totally clueless about where their property ends. Keep it light. Tell them that you just wanted to save them the trouble bacause you really like to keep your lawn a little longer for the reasons you stated here. Maybe they are not aware of the benefits of longer grass.
If their motives are not innocent, you have laid to rest any notions they have that you won't notice if they carve a little bit away from you slowly. You can even joke that you were a little bit afraid to mention it because you didn't want to hurt their feelings. I bet it all gets settled very easily.