Neighbors — you can’t live near them and you can’t live without them. Or something like that.
You work super hard to make your lawn and garden look beautiful — or at least beautiful to you — and then some thoughtless neighbor ruins it. Whether it’s from chemical overspray or keeping their yard unkempt or leaving their yard waste for you, what do you do? Do you have a polite way of handling it?
The neighbor to my north spent most of his weekend trimming trees he then left in our communal creek and blowing his leaf piles into our yard. In this photo you can see some of his work. The property line runs just to the left of the tree on the right. So now my rock bed has piles of leaves (and the green bits are debris from his evergreen tree trimming) that I’ll now have to blow back into a pile. He also blew piles of leaves into the street, as if everyone else wanted them blown into their yards.
I’m not a confrontational person. I KNOW I’d say something if my neighbor’s sprayed chemicals that blew into my yard but how do I handle this? Is it worth saying something? Or do I just keep cleaning up his messes? This is not the first time (in the past he’s actually trimmed trees and thrown the branches into my yard) so it’s fairly clear he doesn’t care what I think.
Help, garden-loving friends, tell me how to proceed, short of building a giant fence? How have you handled annoying neighbors?
I made today’s drink with some berries I’d washed, sliced & frozen a week ago. But I also planted my berries yesterday so hopefully soon I’ll be making my strawberry lemonade with fresh berries — mmmmhmm.
