There is a 4ft wall that runs along the back of all the gardens in my street. There is also a fence that starts where the wall stops but it's a few inches away from the wall so it makes the wall perfect for walking right along the back of all the rear gardens. I have a few window boxes along my part of the wall with climbing plants to go up the fence (to give us a bit of privacy from the two blocks of flats behind it) but for the past few nights a couple of boys (around 10-11) have been getting in through someone elses garden up the street and walking right along the wall through all the gardens and take great pleasure in knocking my pots down along the way.
I have tried to make the garden lovely for my family-especially the kids to enjoy and also have a summer house and a couple of sheds with expensive garden equipment and the kids bikes, a big slide and swings etc. I'm worried the little brats will do more than just knock my plants over-although this alone is driving me nuts! thanks
2007-07-04 10:06:11 · 27 answers · asked by wee_reenie 3 in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
barbed wire, glass and vandal paint etc. are all illegal. you can get done for them damaging themselves or their clothes while trespassing on Your property! Ridiculous but true!
2007-07-04 10:31:30 · update #1
Buy red ants and put them right around where they play! lol
2007-07-04 10:13:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My first thought would be to put some cactus (cacti) in pots on the wall or where ever they could give the little demons a few thorns, or maybe a nice thorny rose bush! If this is happening at night you could maybe have a security light installed with a motion sensor so that when they are in range of the sensor they are illuminated by a bright floodlight(?) If none of these work I might try to find where they are getting in and see if the neighbor could do something to deter them. Of course if this were happening in my yard I'd love to rig up some kind of trip wire that would make some loud noise so that I could run out and wring their necks!!! Good Luck!
2007-07-04 10:23:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
thorns, dog poo, paint, etc.. = no. Kids do know they have more rights than adults. Do some of these things or even talk to their parents, it MAY deter the kids but more probably make it worse & retaliate.
I liked the idea of setting up water sprinklers to a motion detector. This has the appearance of watering stuff & not done on purpose.
My ledge is close to ground & kids will go out of their way to walk through & even stomp on my flowers in the neighboring bed. I just gave up by planting all day lilies in that area - - those plants will always grow back. You do have more options.
Good luck.
2007-07-04 16:54:16 · answer #3 · answered by Carole Q 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go out and tell them to sod off. If they give you any lip, then ask them how their mum is going to react when you follow them home and bang on their door five minutes after they get in. This worked pretty well for me.
I have had to frogmarch kids home before now and you would be surprised how ashamed parents are when people come complaining about their offspring. The offending kid usually ends up with a serious grounding.
Don't try this with older kids for all too obvious reasons...
2007-07-04 10:27:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Borrow a very big dog or buy that anti vandal paint that never dries
They wont be back with ruined shoes and clothes
Oh well summer is back.
I wouldnt recommend the hosepipe, it might have worked a while back but these days they would see it as a declaration of war. And they know full well they have more rights than you.
A good thorny bush then, if vandal paint is illegal. See what i mean about their rights!
2007-07-04 10:16:14 · answer #5 · answered by Northern Spriggan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have seen some garden centres selling the sort of spikes that buildings use to keep pigeons off their windowsills.
Some councils around my way use anti climbing paint on their walls - yes there is apparently such a type of surface paint!
Or broken glass pieces can be stuck to the top of your section of your wall.
Barbed wire?
Cap-off with pointed roof tiles.
Video/photo them then threaten with the police.
2007-07-04 10:27:14 · answer #6 · answered by BigG 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Can you put up a motion sensor light? It would come on when they are there and maybe scare them away. Or find a old camcorder or something that looks like a camera and mount it so it looks like it is watching the wall. Can you get someone to close the opening between the wall and the fence?
2007-07-04 10:13:25 · answer #7 · answered by Linda S 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Roses are a wonderful plant and since they need to be trellised to go where you want them, maybe you could put some spiky sort of trellis behind them. Sprinklers can be a great deterrent. My stepfather rigged a motion detector to another device that turned on his sprinklers and got the deer to leave his yard alone.
2007-07-04 10:21:53 · answer #8 · answered by Laura B 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'd plant poison ivy where it will grow over the wall, or roses, or something like briars that will tear 'em up when they go climbing on my wall. Too bad y'all can't just grab a shotgun loaded with rocksalt when the little buggers come 'round like that.
2007-07-04 11:47:15 · answer #9 · answered by Tennessee_whiskey6969 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Having the same problem in Los Angeles! fat asses sitting on it, children acting like its a balance beam and ending up smashing my plants. I've planted Golden Barrel Cactus in the garden and now I'm going to epoxy stone finials every 12" ...none of those fat asses can squeeze between
2014-03-23 08:16:19 · answer #10 · answered by david walrod 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I recently saw rubber spike strips in one of the Garden catalogues, possibly Suttons. Can't remember which, sorry. they were advertised for preventing cats etc from walking alon garden walls. Perhaps your local garden centre could help!
2007-07-07 03:27:05 · answer #11 · answered by Salnix 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋