Open plan garden ... neighbour driving on it

[mko9]

Flat6er said:

Plank of 4" thick wood with 8"nails thru it, bury just beneath grass and lay turf over it.

if they drive over it, punctured tyre. they'll learn eventually.

This gets my vote

[miniman]

Borrow a stheap of a car and park it on your garden, as close as you can to the boundary. They'll soon start talking to you.

[sleep envy]

bear pit with really pointy wooden stakes

[Podie]

Plant a berberis. Spiky, nasty plant - hurts if you catch it and scratches cars.

Still, the birds love it as cats can't get them.

[s3fella]

miniman said:

Borrow a stheap of a car and park it on your garden, as close as you can to the boundary. They'll soon start talking to you.

Even better, how about breaking a rusty sierra on the front lawn?

[.Flyer]

Ooh, some great options there! A drainage ditch sounds like a great idea, filled with some foul concoction

I do have a large boulder at the bottom end of the garden, where they blatantly drive over it; found it dumped in a public landscaped area with gouge marks on it (presumably, they hit it with their car and decided to move it). So, boulders are the obvious solution, but the garden is more than two car lengths long, so quite a few boulders needed, and then the extra maintenance of cutting the grass (hate gardening, but like a nice garden ) So, a flower bed is out, as they need bloody weeding.

The buried nails is sheer genius, especially if they were painted green, but I fear that option might just breach the covenant. Could be wrong though.

Saturating the area with water would take me ages every day to do. It's a long garden!

The rope fence is defo an option, I quite like that. I have a couple of berberis's (sp?) around the corner, they are nasty things, but again, that means a border to maintain. But, guess I'll have to bite the bullet

I've got a photo of how close they park, I'll post it up shortly.

[superlightr]

I bet you can put up a hedge but not a wall/fence. Living things tend to be allowed in the covenants.

A 1 foot deep drainage ditch would get my vote. Will stop the car and a very thorny plant to stop them walking.

[.Flyer]

Just one of many times...

[james0]

A good time to mow the grass, with an old style lawnmower with the blades at the front and no grass box.

[igiveup]

.Flyer said:

Just one of many times...

Just put some old railway sleepers down that edge?

http://www.railwaysleeper.com/railway%20sleepers%2...

Edited by igiveup on Tuesday 28th February 20:11

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Or a hedge, it's not that hard to grow/look after OP!

[hornetrider]

How about some sticky-up type edging? Kind of like bricks on their side at 45 degrees?

I would actually put a stone border in with rose bushes. fk them.

[Engineer1]

Go back to the boulder on the corner but concrete it in, dig a hole fill with concrete and a steel bar, drill a hole into the boulder and drip over the steel.

[darronwall]

.Flyer said:

Just one of many times...

if they see you out taking photos they will start to take the piss out of you,i would.Man up and have a word if it offends you so much

[Munter]

darronwall said:

if they see you out taking photos they will start to take the piss out of you,i would.Man up and have a word if it offends you so much

Bad eyes?

[Chrisgr31]

If you dont like gardening, weed kill a strip of grass, then rotorvate it. Put down a weedproof membrane, plant shrubs through it like berberis, roses etc, then cover membrane with wood chipping. Only maintenance required would be occasioanl prune of nasty shrubs!

[mondeoman]

.Flyer said:

Just one of many times...

Thats just bloody cheeky

[Happy Jim]

I would think that as a mad keen gardner you should be watering your garden to stop the grass going brown, but to save water you could put it on one of those electronic timer things set to "on" permanently.....triggered by a movement sensor ;-) as they drive onto the drive the sprinkler goes off.

Realistically you're going to need to put up a low hege that stops them opening the door, load of small Box bushes, nice and easy to trim, fairly slow growing, not obnoxious but will do the trick.

Jim

[Orbin]

paulrockliffe said:

Land mine or two? You haven't signed up to the Geneva Convention or anything daft like that have you? Probably get them cheap on eBay off one of those mine removal charities if you don't mind second hand?

that made me chuckle!

[fido]

Raised flower bed (6 bricks high would be good enough), perhaps in an L-shape along your front border so as not to look like you're doing it just to piss them off.