Neighbor put satellite dish smack in middle of landscaping (palm, Hedges, leaves)
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Finally we can end this thread. Talked to my neighbor and it was the installer who steered him in the direction which caused soooooooooo much anger and disdain on this subject.
We are taking out some low growing shrubs and replacing them with laurapetulem (sp) a variety that can grow as high as twelve feet. We are even offering the neighbor/ friend the discarded shrubs if he would like. There. I am happy. Now you all can go and find another person to "dish" your haughty contempt. .......just kidding I love you all.
Its their back yard. Friend or no friend they dont need to talk to you about what they choose to do with the yard. Why jerks?????Do you always do whatever everyone else does???? So your not going to be friendly no more because they did not get your insight about this. Shame on you.
Luvvarkansas - I have a grapevine on the chainlink and she has a peach tree on her side. The problem is cleaning in this 4 inch wide space between the fences. I couldn't put down weed killer to keep the weeds from coming up because it would kill plants on both sides. In most places and probably here too you offset a wood fence on your property so that you can maintain the other side of it. It's easy to just weedeat around a chainlink on each side. A chainlink fence you can share with your neighbors(I share the fence on the other side of my yard) but she told me that she is uncomfortable with her neighbors being able to see in her house as she is a single woman. She's not messy. Just between the fence is. It is technically HER property but because she doesn't see it it doesn't bother her. The chainlink fence is placed on the property line.
Houston3 - If I remove that length of fence I would have an open area to the backyard that I would prefer not to have plus I would have to get rid of a very nice grapevine.
Why not just take down the chain link fence??? After all there is now a tall wood fence right next to it....
Problem solved....
I'm thinking if I were him I'd leave it....wood fences rot, and critters can break the bottoms....I'd leave it up so no dogs could come through to my side.
Luvvarkansas - I have a grapevine on the chainlink and she has a peach tree on her side. The problem is cleaning in this 4 inch wide space between the fences. I couldn't put down weed killer to keep the weeds from coming up because it would kill plants on both sides.
How long is the area you're talking about?
They make Roundup and such as that now with foaming action sprayers, which keeps the stuff from blowing around. Also, I saw somewhere once where someone made a little "funnel" type thing to go around the end of their sprayer so the could just set it down on top of what they wanted to spray and keep it from blowing around. Maybe you could come up with something like that.
Also, you have to get Roundup on the leaves of a plant to kill it (with the exception of cutting it and applying the Roundup to a raw stub), so I'm thinking it wouldn't be hard to spray underneath the grapevine (all the grapevines I've ever seen on chain link fences have leaves only on the top of the fence) through your fence....very carefully and on a very still day. Then how a thick mulch of gravel? Maybe some landscaping fabric underneath? Would be a lot of work in the beginning, but wouldn't have to be repeated, except for the occasional stray weed that managed to get through.
As for the occasional trash blowing in, I don't know, just have to go out there and get it, I guess. Get some kind of picker-upper to reach over with, if you can, or use a blower-vac for paper. I feel for ya....that would bug me, too.
I'm thinking, if she put up a fence only 4 inches from yours, and yours has a grapevine on it, that grapevine is going to hold moisture and is going to rot her fence. It's bound to be touching it, huh?
How would you like them...telling you what you can and cannot do on your property...as other posters said...get over it and to ruin a friendship over this is IMHO very immature. GEESH!!! Some folks... such as complaining about a neighbor having chimes??? Don't sweat the little things...worry/get mad over something important!!!
Some of you are like the energizer bunny with this post. If you would check my last post you will see the situation is resolved and we are getting on with our lives.......how about you all.
Some of you are like the energizer bunny with this post. If you would check my last post you will see the situation is resolved and we are getting on with our lives.......how about you all.
Lots of times people just read the first post and hit "reply".
A year from now someone might come along for the first time, read this post, and reply....then it moves back up to the front of the line and people will start discussing it all over again!
Get back to your garden and shape the proper hedge
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