Thanks everyone for your ideas. We like the grevillia idea since we have a
mostly natives in that part of the garden. We've also found some of that
extendible lattice in the back shed so hopefully that will also reinforce to
the kids that they are not welcome visitors while the planting grows a bit.

Regards,
Susan

PS My father used to use sewage sludge as a fertilizer on our garden at
home. Used to grow beautiful tomatos - pity he hadn't actually planted them.


"Peter and Susan" wrote in message
...
We have a minor boundary problem. Our side neighbours (#8) recently
rebuilt
their side fence towards the back of the property and didn't join it up
with
either our or their rear neighbour's back/side fences. As a result we now
have a significant gap between No 8's boundary fence and our rear boundary
fence. This has resulted in a steady stream of dogs and kids from the
property behind #8 using our yard as a speedway, a situation we are not
entirely happy with.

We had a look at our boundary situation today to try and come up with a
solution but the problem is the layout of that corner of the yard (our
side
neighbour retains up and the rear neighbour retains down) as well as
discovering that neither fence has side posts, so we can't secure a
section
of railing and nail on more palings. Digging a new post hole will be a
problem as well.

One thought that occurred to us was perhaps planting something that would
be
unpleasant to walk through. Bougainvillea came to mind but it may be too
invasive for our purposes. Any other suggestions would be appreciated.

Incidently, we have tried asking the kids not to run through our yard but
obviously its not working.

We are in Brisbane.

Thanks in advance

Susan and Peter