Anonymous
12/08/2017 11:59
Subject: Am I too pedantic?Neighbor shoving leaves into wooded area between our houses.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Just remove all the trees, saturate with Roundup, presto, no more leaves or weeds to deal with. Bonus: no trees to fall on your house in the next derecho.
you forgot to add the concrete or asphalt so you can park you cars in front as well.
Anonymous
12/06/2017 15:36
Subject: Am I too pedantic?Neighbor shoving leaves into wooded area between our houses.
A few weeks ago, I watched a neighbor blowing leaves from his yard across the street the woody area in front of his house. I wondered if it was smart, lazy or rude. I guess most here would say it was smart. Yes it is a wooded area with leaves naturally falling. But I think to pile excess leaves in the area can be disruptive as the leaves will take longer to decompose. From the OP's description, it sounds like the area is small and lightly wooded where a 4 foot pile of leaves isn't natural and is definitely noticeable. I agree with the others who said to try taking this up with the HOA, if it bothers you. If the HOA doesn't want to take this up, then I think you just let it go or put up a fence.
The wood pile is a little different, I think, but the HOA may have something to say about that or not. Otherwise, I'm imagining if you fuss about this, your neighbor may just move the pile slightly so it sits on his property line and you still have the same eye-sore. So nothing really to be gained there, I think.
The wood pile is a little different, I think, but the HOA may have something to say about that or not. Otherwise, I'm imagining if you fuss about this, your neighbor may just move the pile slightly so it sits on his property line and you still have the same eye-sore. So nothing really to be gained there, I think.
Anonymous
12/02/2017 22:15
Subject: Am I too pedantic?Neighbor shoving leaves into wooded area between our houses.
Anonymous wrote:Just remove all the trees, saturate with Roundup, presto, no more leaves or weeds to deal with. Bonus: no trees to fall on your house in the next derecho.
Anonymous
12/02/2017 21:52
Subject: Am I too pedantic?Neighbor shoving leaves into wooded area between our houses.
Just remove all the trees, saturate with Roundup, presto, no more leaves or weeds to deal with. Bonus: no trees to fall on your house in the next derecho.
Anonymous
12/02/2017 12:06
Subject: Re:Am I too pedantic?Neighbor shoving leaves into wooded area between our houses.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
Everything is a refuge for snakes and rodents - you will always have those.
if you have snakes, you won't have any rodents...
I like my yard clean, and no weeds. but running over the leaves and mulching them up is a fine practice.
I've never bagged leaves for the trash guys to pick up.
I don't understand people who bag up their leaves or blow them out to the curb to be picked up. They're throwing away mulch that can greatly improve their soil- and paying someone to take it away. (Not to mention the people who line ten bags of leaves up along the curb out in the street on Saturday when they won't be picked up until Wednesday- and do this three weeks in a row.)
It takes slightly more work to mow over your leaves, but it is so much better for your lawn and the environment. If you really have a lot of leaves, you can use the bagger on your lawn mower and then dump the leaves on your beds. The cut up leaves will form a nice mulch that will protect the roots of your plants for the winter and then will decompose over the spring and summer to improve your soil.
There is no good reason to be having leaves hauled away from your home.
Anonymous
12/02/2017 11:54
Subject: Am I too pedantic?Neighbor shoving leaves into wooded area between our houses.
Anonymous wrote:Your neighbor saw what your lawn guy did last year and thought it was a great idea.
Maybe this year your neighbor will see you removing the leaves and get the point.
This. It happened to us too, the lawn guys of our neighbors just blow all the leaves on to the wooded area of our property.
On the plus side, the leaves and nutrients to the soil and help the trees.
Anonymous
11/21/2017 07:52
Subject: Re:Am I too pedantic?Neighbor shoving leaves into wooded area between our houses.
Anonymous wrote:
Everything is a refuge for snakes and rodents - you will always have those.
if you have snakes, you won't have any rodents...
I like my yard clean, and no weeds. but running over the leaves and mulching them up is a fine practice.
I've never bagged leaves for the trash guys to pick up.
Anonymous
11/19/2017 06:30
Subject: Re:Am I too pedantic?Neighbor shoving leaves into wooded area between our houses.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Persnickety may be the word you're looking for.
Anal retentive?[i]
That's the word that comes to my mind when I read OP's post and responses.
That's the phrase to describe the majority of Americans and their desire for antiseptic lawns around their homes. Lawn guy spraying poison everywhere and killing everything that is natural? Landscapers hauling away the leaves and getting out the gas blowers to rid the property of every last leaf? Che j.
Bringing your kids inside because 'natural things' like snakes were outside with them? The horrors! Check!