I must have missed the first rant or don't remember it. Sounds like you have a hardhead neighbor.
A picture would help to see the layout. Is there anyway you could put up a real fence so she can't get to your yard?

My neighbor mows part of our yard too. They are connected between the houses and one day when I was outside and she came out to mow I seen her mowing all the way into my yard right up to my drive way which is a good 4 to 5 feet. I thought it was odd, I mean she doesn't even like mowing. She only mows part of my front though leaving the grass from the house up to the fence tall.
I was wondering why the grass out by the street wasn't growing, Now I know or is that There's your sign LOL.

we have a neighbor who mows part of our yard as well - no solutions, though
~ amy

No, couldn't put a real fence. It would look really strange without being connected to the fence on the other side of the line. I thought I had a drawing of the layout of my lot, but can't find it, must be on the other computer.

You've every right to rant, rave, kick 'n scream...all without apology.

I'd be so furious I'd march over there & have an ol' fashioned hissy fit- she wouldn't have to ask twice what I was talking about. That's the only way you can get through to some people- especially one that nervy, rude & willful! It's not as if she didn't know you don't want your grass scalped & it has/will cause erosion.

If you're not the "hissy" type, maybe a few NO Trespassing signs for awhile would do it. ;-)

Suzi

Well, I'm not a nice southern girl lol and that's the warning sensitive folks are getting. If my dogs won't leave a certain plant(s) alone I have some potted prickly pear cactus that I put around it. (No none of the spines have broken off in the dogs. The spines bent and stayed on the cactus.) They've gotten a good poke or two and now know to leave the area it's in ALONE.
Your neighbor sounds about as bright as my dogs. How someone can live in TX and not know about flashflooding and erosion control is beyond me. I had a neighbor that would scalp the grass on his side with the same problem. I planted goldenrod/sunflowers. He can scalp all he wants that dirt isn't going anywhere on my side. I'll bet a nice potted hedge(I wouldn't put it in the ground it tends to be very aggressive)of cactus and she'll give your property a wide berth. The cactus never gets any supplimental water even in summer in a pot. A "hedge" wouldn't need any care at all. PJ

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Marti8a...could you buy a lettuce panel, maybe cut it in half to four feet or so. Put you a couple of short post in to hold it up. Then plant a vine of some sort to grow there. You can get a panel like that that is white and vinyl for low maintenance. Reminds me of the Andy Griffeth show where the two neighbors were fighting over a fence. The solid fence was good for one but bad for the chickens of the other neighbor. Andy solved the problem by putting up a wire fence. Good luck.....DT

Marti - have you thought about asking her why she is mowing your grass? She may have an issue too and this is her way of dealing with it without confronting you. It's worth a try.
This is a little mean, but if that doesn't work, try driving some short pieces of rebar into the ground that would stick up high enough for her mower to hit it, but yours wouldn't. You'd have to watch not to trip over it or hurt yourself on it, but after she ruins a blade or 2, maybe you could remove it when she's not looking.

Rock garden. Put in a little wall to support it and make a dry river bed. Let her try and mow over that puppy.

debndal, I haven't talked to her about it in a few years. And then I didn't ask her why. I just told her that I wanted the grass on my side of the property line to be mowed about 2" to stop the erosion. At that time she said that she had been told that before.

I have thought that maybe she thought she was doing me a favor by mowing over to my driveway, or that she was sending me a message that I needed to mow my yard, and that is why I am annoyed. It could also be that she is mowing on my side now because it's easier to ride in a big circle than to back up. I guess I should just put my big girl panties on & go talk to her about it now that I've calmed down.

a) wow, 2" - we mow at 4" - i wonder what she'd say to that - both our neighbors mow much lower, the invasive neighbor super low - its noticeable from the street, but we don't mind b/c we're not watering nearly as often as they are
b) definitely wear the pink ones
~ amy

LOL Amy!

How do you get your mower up to 4"? I have my walk-behind raised all the way & it's about 2", maybe a little higher. And I set the riding on the next to the highest to match it.

You should be able to get a plat map of your property from your county's appraisal district. It is really frustrating when someone damages your property and thinks they're doing you a favor for some strange reason. Try talking to her again and explain - again - why she shouldn't mow your yard.

You might also want to contact your city's code compliance department to find out if there is some code that says something about planting a shrub that large right on the property line. Maybe she shouldn't have done that (all right, we all KNOW she shouldn't have done that) according to some city code and maybe they could be removed? Also let them know about how she is damaging your property and see if they can suggest anything that can be done.

You have every right to prune those photinias all the way up if you want to since they are hanging over your property. I can't stand those shrubs, especially when they are planted in the wrong space. Obviously right on the property line is the absolute wrong space.

LOL! I'm getting a laugh outta this! Rebar and dry river beds what a riot!

I mow mine at 4" too. My mower has that setting but I've heard of others changing out the tires for taller ones. PJ

how about a dog whose chain reaches just to your property line!

Seriously, though, I wonder if horseherb would work? It's a native texas groundcover that is agressive enough to crowd out grass in the shade. Maybe it would crowd out those weeds she keeps shooting into your flower bed?

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I agree with others, too, about outside intervention if necessary. She is willfully damaging your property. I'd definitely talk again, and I'd perhaps ask her if there's anything you're doing that is upsetting her and giving her this supposed excuse to come around on your side? Perhaps she doesn't like your weed eating on her side, even though you and I both think you're doing her a favor. Or maybe it's just laziness, I dunno. I guess you'll know more if/when you talk it out.

I just talked to her, and she said she is mowing on her next to the highest level, didn't realize I had already mowed (on her side) next to my little fence, and didn't realize she was coming that far onto my side.

So I guess what I will do is keep planting along my side of the line until I have a total barricade to the street.

This woman clearly doesn't know where the property line is. I hope you won't end up with a dispute. Are the iron stakes still there where they mark the lines? I'd put a few of those colored flags on the line to help her out. Big dummy.

Oh yes, I found the iron stakes that mark the boundaries & put a piece of pvc over them so it's really obvious. I had put out flags but she knocked them down.

Sounds like she has a real attitude, to bad there's no adjustment button to change it. I've got a guy on the east side of me that has a really nasty attitude. Boy you should have seen him when the postman told him he needed to trim his tree so he could drive up to the mail box. That weekend he got out there and murdered the TREES and he was boiling mad. He broke the top of the bird bath in his fit of rage. Then he topped it off with leaving the limbs in his front yard for two months. Oh that looked lovely.
Someday I will move, hopefully to a nice quite area.

I don't really think she has an attitude, at least not a bad attitude. I think she has an if-it's-not-mine-I-don't-care attitude.

Marti, keep us posted. I don't know WHAT to say now. If she knows the line, and she doesn't have a terrible attitude... what??? Is she retarded? Not too retarded to run destructive lawn equipment, clearly. Do you suppose a nice fence of barbed wire would enhance your relations?

You know, she is probably one of those passive aggressive people. Terrible attitude, but ashamed enough to try to hide it. Yet it burbles out on your property line.

Do something daring and creative and tell us what happens! Entertain us!