Open plan garden ... neighbour driving on it

[.Flyer]

Hi

I live on a modern open plan estate, where my garden borders the next door neighbour's driveway. The drives are wide enough to fit two cars on side to side (and are long enough to fit two cars front to back). Unfortunately, they have a habit of parking as close as possible to my garden so that they have to walk all over it to get out of the car. Quite often, they will actually park on the grass

I had some edging stones at the bottom that they have damaged by reversing and turning, so that their front wheels went completely over the garden and cracked the stones in half.

I've been patient but have now had enough. I've discussed this with them before, but led to them ignoring me, so any further discussions would be a waste of time. I don't care about that anymore, just want to stop them driving and walking on my garden.

I'm limited to it being open plan (so no wall), but would really like to put a barrier of some kind in place, that can't be easily damaged by them (accidentally or on purpose!). Anyone have any ideas?

[Odie]

Drainage ditch, a good foot or so deep and a good foot+ wide at the offending edge of the garden.

Or put a flower bed in, lots of horse manure.

[Gargamel]

Nails, big six inch ones. Pointing upwards

[XG332]

Spike strips.

Or some bigger harder rocks

[Crafty_]

Put some sort of edging there, better still a raised flower bed ? doesn't need to be tall have a look at this stuff: http://search.diy.com/search#w=edging&asug=

[manitou]

ive had this problem it pisses you off! try a row of big heavy plant pots placed along the edge of your lawn so they cant drive on it, or plant a nice prickily berberis hedge that should do the trick

[paulrockliffe]

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?

[ghamer]

Edge your garden with large ornate boulders.Won,t want to damage their car by hiting them I suspect.Failing that kick the living daylights out of them.Either should work!

[0a]

Annoying but it doesn't sound like it's worth starting a war over (these things do escalate so easily). Just tell them you're having a bit of 'landscaping' done as the broken stones look messy and put a small fence in or wall - "should tidy up the area!". Job done.

[s3fella]

Have you thought about killing them with your Landrover?

Or plant a big spikey bush.

[eldar]

Caltrops, or a kids swing next to "their parking space"

[Shaolin]

paulrockliffe said:

Land mine or two? You haven't signed up to the Geneva Convention or anything daft like that have you?

Now you tell me!

All those years of needless restraint.

[Chrisgr31]

Put in a flower bed, could even encourage the local cats to crap in it so if they walk on it they get cat crap in their car/house!

[Spudler]

ghamer said:

Edge your garden with large ornate boulders.Won,t want to damage their car by hiting them I suspect.Failing that kick the living daylights out of them.Either should work!

Option B but including option A.

Seriously tho, i'd go with the boulder option.

[davepoth]

Odie said:

Drainage ditch, a good foot or so deep and a good foot+ wide at the offending edge of the garden.

Or put a flower bed in, lots of horse manure.

Frankly, do both. Drainage ditch, then stretch a damp proof membrane over the top and plant some pansies in half an inch of dirt. That'll learn them.

[Munter]

I'm thinking rocks on the edge. Good enough to scratch alloys and tricky to stand on. Then rose bushes between and behind/your side.

[Flat6er]

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.

[mondeoman]

Rope fence about 2-3' high (or barbed wire if you prefer), with the stakes at just the right place for them to smack their door on.

[Miguel Alvarez]

dibbers006 said:

To avoid the conflict that could arise.

Why not repeatedly saturate the area, over and over till it is a quagmire. Stepping into a mud bath in the dark is enough to put them off.

You can eventually (like spraying cats when they are naughty) re-train them and then you are free to 'sort out that drainage problem' with a raised, gravel drained, rockery or something.

Anything else is just asking for issues.

This is very sensible but clearly not as fun.

[hairyben]

One or two trough like planters, large enough so when full they're practically immovable, if you want to try and avoid conflict I'd have one or two elsewhere too to make it look like a theme;)