Tyrannical gardening-obsessed shaming neighbors

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP’s yard is a mess and none of you people would want her yard next to yours. Read between the lines.

My neighbors think our lovey well kept yard is a mess because we don’t trim every living thing into a perfect cube. Their yard looks like a platoon.

[Anonymous]

sounds like you are using your kids as an excuse for not doing basic upkeep.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:sounds like you are using your kids as an excuse for not doing basic upkeep.

10O%. It was pointed out in earlier post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP’s yard is a mess and none of you people would want her yard next to yours. Read between the lines.

My neighbors think our lovey well kept yard is a mess because we don’t trim every living thing into a perfect cube. Their yard looks like a platoon.

Suurrrreeee!

[Anonymous]

OP. You caught me. In fact, I posted here out of sheer guilt from my "volunteer" trees...whatever that could be. I only have a weekly lawn service and obviously should be spending night and day in my yard. Some of you people are insane.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Certain types of trees constantly drop branches into the yard. They become a bit of a nuisance. I think people would call them “junk trees.”

Which ones, exactly? I know of none, except sick trees.

NP- my neighbor let a Tree of Heaven grow in her yard. 100% a junk tree and it's banned by the county. Doesn't drop branches but it does have roots that go into foundations and rip up streets.

Tree of Heaven is truly a junk tree and should be removed. Their roots are also toxic to other plants. It will aggressively take over.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some trees like mulberry attract rodents. Hard to get rid of the pests once you have them

I love my mulberry tree. I live in the suburbs and the tree is well away from our house. The only rodent I've seen near it was a ground hog who climbed the tree and seemed to be drunk and fell out of the tree. He was hilarious. The cedar waxwings who showed up every year to eat the berries were well worth it. I want to plant one now. There are invasive Asian versions of mulberries.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Certain types of trees constantly drop branches into the yard. They become a bit of a nuisance. I think people would call them “junk trees.”

Which ones, exactly? I know of none, except sick trees.

NP- my neighbor let a Tree of Heaven grow in her yard. 100% a junk tree and it's banned by the county. Doesn't drop branches but it does have roots that go into foundations and rip up streets.

Tree of heaven is also a host of the invasive spotted lantern fly. These are dangerous invasives.

Op, do you know which types of trees she is objecting to? For someone who cares about the environment and the local economy, there are actually some plants whose harms extend beyond the property line.

Bradford pears are another "junk tree". Invasive and smelly.

+1 The callery pear trees they spawn are a problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP. You caught me. In fact, I posted here out of sheer guilt from my "volunteer" trees...whatever that could be. I only have a weekly lawn service and obviously should be spending night and day in my yard. Some of you people are insane.

If you used the time it takes you to start a thread, make snarky comments, and peruse through dcum on to your yard, then it wouldn’t be a mess.
You are the one who used your small children as an excuse, but seemingly can be on dcum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a neighbor across street. Younger couple maybe 42-45. Two kids maybe 8-10 moved in four years ago.

Front laws don’t have fences. Somehow they bought the house from an 85 year old widower who owned house almost fifty years and in three years turned front lawn into a massive dandelion patch with seeds flying everywhere.

The guy had a typical WFH job. Wife does not work kids in school all day. Dude spray them, dig them out or at lease keep lawn shorter so they don’t shoot up.

No one cares except the two neighbors left and right get weeds everywhere.

One of man child dads off bike riding or something while his weeds are everywhere

The amount of herbicide it takes to keep dandelions out of a yard is terrible. I stopped using herbicides in my back yard much to the chagrin of my overbearing neighbor. Too bad. Herbicides are horrible and I've just stopped using them in my front yard too. I spend a lot of time overseeding instead of applying herbicides.

Do you have any clue how dangerous and toxic herbicides are?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a neighbor across street. Younger couple maybe 42-45. Two kids maybe 8-10 moved in four years ago.

Front laws don’t have fences. Somehow they bought the house from an 85 year old widower who owned house almost fifty years and in three years turned front lawn into a massive dandelion patch with seeds flying everywhere.

The guy had a typical WFH job. Wife does not work kids in school all day. Dude spray them, dig them out or at lease keep lawn shorter so they don’t shoot up.

No one cares except the two neighbors left and right get weeds everywhere.

One of man child dads off bike riding or something while his weeds are everywhere

LOL imagine thinking weeding is the manly hobby here. Get over it, dandelions are good for pollinators and turf lawns are for dinosaurs.

and for people who want cancer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP. You caught me. In fact, I posted here out of sheer guilt from my "volunteer" trees...whatever that could be. I only have a weekly lawn service and obviously should be spending night and day in my yard. Some of you people are insane.

Little dramatic, are you not? Maybe a little dramatic about your neighbor too?

[Anonymous]

Unpopular opinion here, but +1 for letting your neighbor know that you're happy with your yard as it is and then blocking her.

This comes from a person who takes very good care of their yard (no herbicide, we use a weed puller) but realizes that their neighbors get to choose how to (or how not to) care for their yards as long as no county ordinances are being broken.

OP, enjoy your time with your children. It flies by.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP’s yard is a mess and none of you people would want her yard next to yours. Read between the lines.

My neighbors think our lovey well kept yard is a mess because we don’t trim every living thing into a perfect cube. Their yard looks like a platoon.

Suurrrreeee!

It’s true! A visiting niece once told me their bushes “looked mad.”

[Anonymous]

Some of you are being disingenuous because you know perfectly well there is a population of old people who expect everyone's yard to look like a golf course. And many younger people don't care about things like dandelions. My pet peeves are giant yew shrubs tall enough to hide the windows, foot high grass, yellow grass from the three large dogs you have living in 1000 square feet of yard, and basically not caring at all. I have three neighbors like this and I never see any of them outdoors and these are people my age. I do have weeds but my yard is pleasant enough to enjoy most of the year and I'm always out there.