What would you think of your neighbor if he did this? With MSpaint custom Picture!

[Bill Brasky]

So you have a garden that someone else pays for and maintains? Sounds like a win to me.

This.

Unless you actually want to use that small patch of land for something, lighten up and smell the roses.

edit: fail. Didn't read hole threed. Explain it ruins your view of the pond and offer to help move the garden. That's what I would do to try and avoid making enemies.

 

[Mr. Lennon]

I would plant some MJ seeds when the garden starts to fill out. Soon as the MJ starts to pop up, call the authorities on his ass. Police will fuck up his garden pulling the weed out, dick neighbor will be thrown in the slammer, and Wife will probably lose job as treasure. Win all around.

 

[DangerAardvark]

Is there anything more petty that suburban lawn squabbles?

 

[I Saw OJ]

Plant some bamboo on his side of that lot. It will grow like crazy and is a total PITA to get rid of.

 

[Ancalagon44]

How exactly does this affect you? If he's not planting on your land, why do you give a crap?

 

[Newbian]

How exactly does this affect you? If he's not planting on your land, why do you give a crap?

Read the thread.

It's not the persons land that's planting there also as far as we can tell and it's ruining the op's view / area he uses since it's behind his lot.

 

[Newbian]

How exactly does this affect you? If he's not planting on your land, why do you give a crap?

Here is a better example:

You see that strip of land between the road and sidewalk?

The city usually owns that so they can use it for utility or other types of work and while you are supposed to take care of it, mow and such, you don't own it.

Now imagine if your neighbor decides to plant a bunch of random crap on that strip but only in front of your house and how would that make you feel?

 

[Humpy]

I would plant some MJ seeds when the garden starts to fill out. Soon as the MJ starts to pop up, call the authorities on his ass. Police will fuck up his garden pulling the weed out, dick neighbor will be thrown in the slammer, and Wife will probably lose job as treasure. Win all around.

Dude, no. That is not neighborly in the least.

The correct solution is to work together with the neighbor to expand the garden to grow pot and vegetables. Split it all up in the fall. Make a pact that if the cops show up nobody knows anything, nobody saw anything, no one has any idea what pot is, it's someones else property, etc. Win all around!

 

[twinrider1]

So you have a garden that someone else pays for and maintains? Sounds like a win to me.

This. Harvest the crops in the middle of the night. Then film his reaction the next day, for our enjoyment.

 

[dawp]

make a flower garden on the entire out lot behind your lot and till his garden under in the process.

 

[boomerang]

Your wife has got it right. But don't just go ahead and do it, tell him after the lawn is in that next year, after you get fully settled in, that you had planned to have a garden too. Tell him that you had intended to have it behind your own house (as long as nobody complained) but since he's using that spot for his garden would he mind if you put yours behind his house. Use the same reasons to justify yours that he used to justify his.

Don't say it with any malice, even a hint of anger, revenge or anything of the sort. Just in a friendly manner. You might even want to sound a little excited about it.

This has a chance of diffusing a potentially bad situation. You'll have to put up with his garden for this season. He'll have some time to think about it until next season and my guess is that he will either not plant next year or will move it to behind his property. My guess is that he's been growing a garden there for some time and was hoping you wouldn't mind.

If the thought of him being out there in his "wife beater" is too much for you to deal with, then your only choice is to "complain".

Make an enemy or make a friend. That's pretty much what it comes down to. Your choice.

On another note, if you have young children that retention pond is a matter of concern.

 

[soulcougher73]

By the looks of it, it is not on anyones lot since your property boundry ends before the garden as does his. Just saying lol

 

[Possessed Freak]

Plant a garden of poison ivy behind his lot.

 

[surfsatwerk]

I'd build yourself a bridge and get over it.

 

[NetWareHead]

If you play your cards right and he ends up moving his garden, you will get a nice patch of earth behind your property that has been fertilized and probably bursting with fertilizer. I just helped break ground on a garden and we then mixed 50 cubic feet of composted cow and chicken manure into it. Assuming the guy did the same thing, if you ever decide to plant a garden or flowers there, they should grow enormously.

Right now, it is too late so wait until next year to move the garden.

 

[MotF Bane]

Weed killer. If you get the plants while they're young, he might think it's just bad ground or something stupid.

Edit: Better idea. Tiger lilies. Fertilize and water well.

 

[rivan]

Put your garden on "his side" of the unused area :^D

This, totally. Plant some pot behind his lot.

 

[paperfist]

If the trees will block the sun going to his garden then it's time to do some planting or erect a big ass fence

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Here is a better example:

You see that strip of land between the road and sidewalk?

The city usually owns that so they can use it for utility or other types of work and while you are supposed to take care of it, mow and such, you don't own it.

Now imagine if your neighbor decides to plant a bunch of random crap on that strip but only in front of your house and how would that make you feel?

I have a strip like that, but the municipal or county do not own it. I own it, and there is an easement covering it, meaning if I wanted to build something on it I would need to get a permit and then file a variance. If decline, it is still my property, but I just cannot do anything with it.

Most municipalities do not want to own it, because that would take away from their ability to tax you on it. So, they simply regulate what can and cannot be done on the easements.

BTW, easements are usually a perimeter of the lot, and not just the street-facing segment.

 

[Ramma2]

Sue Sylvester: Ah, a beloved patriot in the armor, huh? I am going to create an environment that it so toxic, no one will want to be a part of that club. Like the time I sold my house to a nice young couple, and I salted the earth in the backyard so that nothing living could grow there for a hundred years. You know why I did that? Because they tried to get me to pay their closing costs.

That's how Sue sees it.

 

[Kirby]

Help him out with the garden and get free vegetables? If you're concerned about the view, you should have bought more land.

lol suburbia

 

[Loop2kil]

Rock Salt will do the trick

 

[leeland]

Help him out with the garden and get free vegetables? If you're concerned about the view, you should have bought more land.

lol suburbia

Can't buy the out lots as they were part of the development of the sub division...at best you can maintain them as I am told.

As far as this being some major drama it isn't so the humor is ill placed 'suburbia'.

Let me ask if you own a home? and if you do what your feelings would be if your neighbor did something you didn't agree...would it be 'suburbia' then or would your issue be a valid one?

 

[NoStateofMind]

I think your neighbor needs to share his crops with you.

Maybe go in with your neighbor with a community garden? Build a rabbit cope, and use the manure for fertilizer.

this

You want to make friends with the established powers that be and get some good food in the process :biggrin:

 

[Kirby]

Can't buy the out lots as they were part of the development of the sub division...at best you can maintain them as I am told.

As far as this being some major drama it isn't so the humor is ill placed 'suburbia'.

Let me ask if you own a home? and if you do what your feelings would be if your neighbor did something you didn't agree...would it be 'suburbia' then or would your issue be a valid one?

I'll be buying a house Jan 2012. If my neighbor did something I didn't like that was legal, I'd deal with it.

My parents backyard faced a pasture. When the owner wanted to put horses out there, my parents offered to buy it instead. No go, so they dealt with it.

Maybe you should have bought a place with a view if you wanted one?