ULPT Request: stop neighbor from constantly cutting my blackberries
Posted by tetheredvoid@reddit | UnethicalLifeProTips | View on Reddit | 24 comments
I live as one of the front facing houses on a small property with multiple manufactured homes. As a group, we aren't in agreement with anything, because no one talks to anyone else. There are no fences.
One neighbor has decided to mow everything, as far down as he can as often as he can, *except* our yard and a "courtesy strip" against the back of our house. I don't care, except he's also decided the blackberries in MY front yard are his responsibility as well. It's pretty obvious he doesn't understand how they grow, as he's just trimming random bits here and there.
We have a wildlife garden started and, yes, it's ugly right now. I'm recovering from AT I and my partner works swing shift. There's only so much we've been able to do while I recover.
He refuses to have a conversation of any kind with us. I have no idea what he is trying to do either. It's an area g was converted with rock gravel years back and has since grown a blackberry thicket. There are wild rabbits and birds in there that make much better neighbors than he does.
How do I stop him coming into the bounds of my parcel without damaging the plants or the wildlife?
cincyhuffster@reddit
Motion detector-activated sprinkler or alarm?
tetheredvoid@reddit (OP)
Seriously considering motion activated sex tape
ozzy_thedog@reddit
What is a motion activated sex tape?
scienceizfake@reddit
It’s like a big spider web made of tape but with more tape.
mslass@reddit
Blackberries are a noxious weed that spread uncontrollably. Isn’t that already unethical enough?
schwelvis@reddit
Charge him with trespass and have him arrested
ohfail@reddit
Good fences make good neighbors.
speedog@reddit
Has he actually damaged wildlife?
electric_shocks@reddit
What do you know about blackberries?
Embarrassed-Row-2025@reddit
Rebar...
Jacksworkisdone@reddit
Hey Op, neighbours suck and it's shitty that they won't even have conversations with you. Are you a renter? When a old ass dude beside me kept mowing into my lawn with his ride on I got a giant ass tire from a farmer and put it right where he would mow. Pissed him off because of the way his lawn was shaped he could no longer cut into my lawn to get the ride on through. I'm not talking about a foot or two, it was great circular cuts at the front of the road. Tire looked like shit but it worked. On the flip side Blackberries are extremely invasive.
emorrigan@reddit
Motion activated sprinkler. No trespassing signs. Calling the cops to have him trespassed off your land.
AmsterdamBM@reddit
Next time tou see them, you could try saying something along the lines of "Hi neighbor, I appreciate the work you do around here but would you mind leaving MY Blackberry bushes alone, we're making jam this summer and need as many as we can keep alive. Hahaha Thanks! " You may have to just announce your boundaries clearly for them. If you're not rude about it, people tend to respect the boundary setting pretty easily. If they don't, just call the non emergency police line and see if they can explain your boundary a little better. You dont even need to make jam!
Prudent-Poetry-2718@reddit
This is the way. It’s not easy or comfortable, but it is the way.
AmsterdamBM@reddit
You could also just get a shovel and start digging holes in their yard.
queen_olestra@reddit
Make a little plastic greenhouse-like thing to go over it and secure it to the ground with concertina wire or electric fencing (doesn't save the bunnies or birds but it's all I've got). Otherwise, an obscene word or drawing in grass killer on his lawn will not appear for a day or two. Just sayin.
tetheredvoid@reddit (OP)
A greenhouse for this spot would not be "little".
I'm seriously considering adding something to the back of the signs I'm putting up that's written in his native language.
The_best_is_yet@reddit
See if you can get cardboard from grocery stores (to help you with cost) and place it all around the side of the blackberries that he accesses. Also write on there “DO NOT TRIM BLACKBERRIES.” Get some pots and plant them either poison ivy and place them around the area that he accesses as well. Consider a motion activated sprayer.
nursebad@reddit
Electric fence.
Bratchan@reddit
No tresspassing sign. Get a cheap camera and then police when you get him on video.
wisebongsmith@reddit
build a fence. or at least put in a bunch of pickets around the space.
no trespassing signs around your section, then a call to the cops when he does.
surround your space with rocks
get a bunch of lengths of rebar and drive them into the ground with 4-10 inches poking out. this will block or damage the lawnmower depending on how he hits it.
fuck his dad.
tetheredvoid@reddit (OP)
I'm adding signs, I cannot afford even a faux fence, it's literally on rocks (so a perimeter isn't going to mark out anything new), and he doesn't mow our lawn or the rockery, so rebar would be hurting me and not him.
He's too old for me to want to dig up his parents lol
EpponeeRae@reddit
Can you put a low rock barrier around it?
And then of course piss around the perimeter.
tetheredvoid@reddit (OP)
It's on rocks. I do not need or want my front yard to smell of piss.