Neighbor has a tree that shits leaves and gunk all over our back patio and the roots are coming under our fence and fucking up our concrete. I want to start spraying the limbs hanging over our fence with salt water and pour buckets of the stuff down on the roots if necessary. Approx how much salt am I going to need and how long do I need to keep dousing it to see this tree dead? Tree is approx. 20 foot tall and 10 years old.
Did this. Neighbor was emphatic that anything on my side of the property line is my problem to deal with. That’s why I want the salt. The tree overhangs our back patio and drops seedlings everywhere in our decorative gravel. So I want to salt that area to prevent anything growing back and I’d like to mist everything hanging over our property with salt water until it dies. You got any particular tips on salinity for maximum plant toxicity?
Or … you could accept that nature is part of our life as a species and stop being an asshole over your “pRopErTy LinE”.
Nature is fine. I got my roses out front, the succulents in their planters, jade tree in it’s planter out back, more wildflowers in their planters, etc. Tore out the ivy out back a while ago because it was causing damage to neighbors fences, replaced it with the decorative gravel so I don’t have to weed as much. We even have some redwoods that shit on our yard from the communal area if it storms hard enough. Not an issue.
This invasive shit tree is an issue. It was planted 10+ years ago by the previous owners and ripped out once because they were moving. Some of the roots survived and now it’s back to a full ass tree and the current slumlord of a property owner refuses to pay anything towards maintainence even as it rips up patios and shits sticky sap everywhere. I want everything on my side of the line dead because nobody else gives a shit.
If the owner is truly neglectful you can talk to the city and potentially get the tree removed funded by a lein on their property. If your neighbor is uncooperative there are usually official channels to resolve this through.
If you go the vigilante route you might end up with a serious fine (also, it’s a dick move)
I don’t think the city can do anything about a condo on private property on unincorporated land. It’d have to be the HOA or county, and I don’t know how I’d even approach the county about it. The HOA is run by 90yo homebodies who don’t care about anything they don’t have to look at. We’ve made multiple complaints about their fences falling down and pulling our fences with them. No response. We bring up the concrete and we’re told it’s a landscaping problem, who ofc point us right back at the hoa.