We live in Southwestern Ontario and recently paved a driveway that's the length of the property line shared with our neighbours. So they have grass on their side, and we now have asphalt. This probably would have been better dealt with in advance of putting up the fence, but we are new home owners and didn't think far enough ahead to see that this was going to be a problem. I'm wondering what the best way to keep the weeds from growing along the fence line onto our side? Our neighbours are very open to letting us do what we need to in their backyard, and my husband has accepted that he'll probably have to remove the bottom few fence boards to dig a trench of sorts, and/or lay down whatever fabric or material in a strip along the bottom. Anyone have any tips or pictures they can share of what their solution was? Thank you so much in advance!
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I would just cut whatever grows on my side
A weedeater would work great to resolve the immediate issue
Wrong: “Roundup or something chemical would ensure nothing else grows”
Edit: I’ve learned a lot about Round up and how it’d be a bad option. I personally just weedeat my property every other week to keep weeds down, so I appreciate the knowledge. Thanks!
string trimer first
glyphosate spray next
install the little half board they forgot in the bottom
FIRE.
Pull it then spray round up under there to nuke anything trying to come your way. Hopefully it’ll kill some stuff on your neighbor’s side and keep the barrier over there.
String trimmer for immediate need then dig down and install metal sheet to prevent later spread.
Routine lawn care would do the trick.
boiling hot salt water will cook the weeds and salt the earth.
not permanent, but easier than heading to the hardware store if you don’t have roundup
burn it
Grass killer
Round up
I have some trees growing through my neighbors fence into my space looks similar to this but like 7′ tall. I reached out to them about it they replied with cut them if you want to….. Dude you are missing my point the trees are destroying your fence and you are like well its your issue now LOL…
Highly suggest 30% Vinegar with a little salt.
Disclaimer: nothing will grow back at all.
Those look like your weeds now. Treat them appropriately.
If they’re on your side of the fence, they’re your weeds.
As a new homeowner myself, a piece of advice I can offer you on any project is to think “if it can go wrong, it will.”
RM43
One and done.
Roundup first, second application 3 days later, 3 days later remove with string trimmer.
Roundup will more effective before string trimming.
Burn it with a torch and then pull the dead shit in a few days. Fuck roundup unless you’re cool with any number of issues you might get 10 years from now all because you didn’t like the way some weeds looked. Burn ‘em.
So they have grass right up to the fence? Maybe ask them to put a mulch border at the fence line? Then use a weed barrier in the mulched section.
Glyphosate/round-up
nothing will stop it. Just pull it before it gets too long or use a string trimmer. There’s no magic fabric that stops weeds.
glyphosate.
Use round up. In 2 weeks remove the dead. This winter heavily the side of the driveway with the fence nothing will grow under the fence if you salt the earth below it. You can salt now but it looks funny in the winter no one will question you putting salt at the fence line of a driveway.
Glyphosate every few months. Done.
Same region here; Cut it with you string trimmer and apply preventative doses of round-up every time you cut the grass.
Use Ortho Weedkiller. RoundUp must have changed their formula. It doesn’t work anymore. I sprayed three areas multiple times, with RoundUp. The weeds got bigger.