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How do I protect a hedge from the local kids?
We have a 6ft high hedge at the front of our house that the local
schoolkids and others seem to delight in throwing themselves and others into, resulting in great holes in the thing. It's beginning to look thoroughly miserable. I've emailed the local headmaster but not yet had a response. No doubt he'll be sympathetic but not sure he'll be able to do much to help. I'm also slightly reluctant to become the bloke who grassed them up. I don't want to become a target of something worse. It looks like the best thing I can do is to spoil their fun in some other way. Obviously I could plant something tougher and pricklier but this will take too long. It's tempting to wrap barbed wire round it but no doubt I'd end up getting sued. Looks like the best thing might be some sturdy posts and a horizontal railing or two to deter them, though logistically that won't be that easy as the hedge juts out a bit. Any other ideas? Thanks Will |
How do I protect a hedge from the local kids?
wrote in message ups.com... We have a 6ft high hedge at the front of our house that the local schoolkids and others seem to delight in throwing themselves and others into, resulting in great holes in the thing. It's beginning to look thoroughly miserable. I've emailed the local headmaster but not yet had a response. No doubt he'll be sympathetic but not sure he'll be able to do much to help. I'm also slightly reluctant to become the bloke who grassed them up. I don't want to become a target of something worse. It looks like the best thing I can do is to spoil their fun in some other way. Obviously I could plant something tougher and pricklier but this will take too long. It's tempting to wrap barbed wire round it but no doubt I'd end up getting sued. Looks like the best thing might be some sturdy posts and a horizontal railing or two to deter them, though logistically that won't be that easy as the hedge juts out a bit. Any other ideas? Thanks Will Barrett M90 or M95 0.5 calibre sniper rifles are nice..............you don't have to be close, just pick a high point 1800 metres away, that's their effective range...........don't miss otherwise that bush of yours will be long gone........... http://world.guns.ru/sniper/sn03-e.htm |
How do I protect a hedge from the local kids?
Are you worried about how tidy the front of teh hedge looks? If not then you
could grow stinging nettles along teh bottom. Alternatively borrow a big dog for a few weeks :) -- Hayley (gardening on well drained, alkaline clay in Somerset) |
How do I protect a hedge from the local kids?
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How do I protect a hedge from the local kids?
Are you worried about how tidy the front of teh hedge looks? If not then you
could grow stinging nettles along teh bottom. Alternatively borrow a big dog for a few weeks :) We thought about stinging nettles but I tended to think this might just increase the pleasure of the kids in pushing each other into the hedge! |
How do I protect a hedge from the local kids?
wrote in message ups.com... We have a 6ft high hedge at the front of our house that the local schoolkids and others seem to delight in throwing themselves and others into, resulting in great holes in the thing. It's beginning to look thoroughly miserable. I've emailed the local headmaster but not yet had a response. No doubt he'll be sympathetic but not sure he'll be able to do much to help. I'm also slightly reluctant to become the bloke who grassed them up. I don't want to become a target of something worse. It looks like the best thing I can do is to spoil their fun in some other way. Obviously I could plant something tougher and pricklier but this will take too long. It's tempting to wrap barbed wire round it but no doubt I'd end up getting sued. Looks like the best thing might be some sturdy posts and a horizontal railing or two to deter them, though logistically that won't be that easy as the hedge juts out a bit. Any other ideas? Thanks Will how about spraying something really foul smelling (but benign) on the hedge. Any lad going head long in to it will get covered in the smell. I cannot give you many suggestions as to what it may be put a very strong poop tea may do it. I brew disgusting liquid fertiliser which smells to buggery. It will also be good for the tree. Have a look around a hardware maybe or rent a skunk. rob |
How do I protect a hedge from the local kids?
Why are they congregating outside your house?
They're not. They just walk past on their way to school. Thanks for the other suggestion. how about spraying something really foul smelling (but benign) on the hedge. Any lad going head long in to it will get covered in the smell. Interesting idea though again, I wonder if this would just increase the tempatation to push your mate into it...? ! |
How do I protect a hedge from the local kids?
wrote in message ups.com... We have a 6ft high hedge at the front of our house that the local schoolkids and others seem to delight in throwing themselves and others into, resulting in great holes in the thing. It's beginning to look thoroughly miserable. I've emailed the local headmaster but not yet had a response. No doubt he'll be sympathetic but not sure he'll be able to do much to help. I'm also slightly reluctant to become the bloke who grassed them up. I don't want to become a target of something worse. It looks like the best thing I can do is to spoil their fun in some other way. Puff a load of talc into the hedge. They will assume they have been poisoned by antkiller or somesuch and may also get Hell from their parent when they get home. -- Brian "Fight like the Devil, die like a gentleman." |
How do I protect a hedge from the local kids?
"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message ... The message .com from contains these words: Why are they congregating outside your house? They're not. They just walk past on their way to school. Thanks for the other suggestion. how about spraying something really foul smelling (but benign) on the hedge. Any lad going head long in to it will get covered in the smell. Interesting idea though again, I wonder if this would just increase the tempatation to push your mate into it...? ! Worth a try. You would then have the stinking mate's mother and friends on your side, applying a double pronged deterrent of social rejection and nagging. if a lad went to school stinking I doubt his teachers would look on it very favourably and he may be going home fairly quickly for a bath. Getting home in school time may not make mum or dad very happy either. Please, do let us know the results of your trial, what perfume you used and any complaints you gather as a result. rob |
How do I protect a hedge from the local kids?
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Grow some bramble bushes inside the bush your trying to protect, and enjoy the benefits of rasberries/blackberries and protection for your bush. Just keep in under control :D:D
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How do I protect a hedge from the local kids?
if a lad went to school stinking I doubt his teachers would look on it
very favourably and he may be going home fairly quickly for a bath. speaking as a teacher that is unlikely - you cannot just send kids home that easily any more. -- Hayley (gardening on well drained, alkaline clay in Somerset) |
How do I protect a hedge from the local kids?
-- Derby, England. Don't try to email me using "REPLY" as the email address is NoSpam. Our email address is "thewoodies2 at ntlworld dot com" Puff a load of talc into the hedge. They would not want to arrive home smelling nice either!! |
How do I protect a hedge from the local kids?
wrote in message ups.com... We have a 6ft high hedge at the front of our house that the local schoolkids and others seem to delight in throwing themselves and others into, resulting in great holes in the thing. It's beginning to look thoroughly miserable. I've emailed the local headmaster but not yet had a response. No doubt he'll be sympathetic but not sure he'll be able to do much to help. I'm also slightly reluctant to become the bloke who grassed them up. I don't want to become a target of something worse. It looks like the best thing I can do is to spoil their fun in some other way. Obviously I could plant something tougher and pricklier but this will take too long. It's tempting to wrap barbed wire round it but no doubt I'd end up getting sued. Looks like the best thing might be some sturdy posts and a horizontal railing or two to deter them, though logistically that won't be that easy as the hedge juts out a bit. Any other ideas? Thanks Will I totally sympathise with you. Round my parts kids use the hedges as football goal nets. It's not much fun for hedge owners. I am currently, foolishly I may add, trying to grow a front hedge using box. Years to grow and it will take just minutes for kids, with a football, to wreck it. I must be mad for trying. |
How do I protect a hedge from the local kids?
"Scotty22" wrote in message ... Grow some bramble bushes inside the bush your trying to protect, and enjoy the benefits of rasberries/blackberries and protection for your bush. Just keep in under control :D:D But be aware that if anyone hurts themselves on your bramble, you could be held liable for their injuries. The sad state of Nanny Blairs England |
How do I protect a hedge from the local kids?
someone here wrote: "Scotty22" wrote in message ... Grow some bramble bushes inside the bush your trying to protect, and enjoy the benefits of rasberries/blackberries and protection for your bush. Just keep in under control :D:D But be aware that if anyone hurts themselves on your bramble, you could be held liable for their injuries. The sad state of Nanny Blairs England You may find that legal actions for personal injury go back a little further than New Labour: the Code of the celebrated Iraqi Hammurabi comes to mind, and that was nearly four thousand years ago. -- Mike. |
How do I protect a hedge from the local kids?
"Mike Lyle" wrote in message oups.com... someone here wrote: "Scotty22" wrote in message ... Grow some bramble bushes inside the bush your trying to protect, and enjoy the benefits of rasberries/blackberries and protection for your bush. Just keep in under control :D:D But be aware that if anyone hurts themselves on your bramble, you could be held liable for their injuries. The sad state of Nanny Blairs England You may find that legal actions for personal injury go back a little further than New Labour: the Code of the celebrated Iraqi Hammurabi comes to mind, and that was nearly four thousand years ago. -- Mike. Where I live, we have Speight's of hedge hoppers (kids) and the local Police advised everyone at the local Residents Association meeting to plant very prickly bushes in their gardens. This way, if anyone injures themselves then it is their own faults, they should not have been there, and it is not against the law to plant these types of bushes. They also said that they would take no action if the kids complained. -- the_constructor. |
How do I protect a hedge from the local kids?
"the_constructor" wrote Where I live, we have Speight's of hedge hoppers (kids) and the local Police advised everyone at the local Residents Association meeting to plant very prickly bushes in their gardens. This way, if anyone injures themselves then it is their own faults, they should not have been there, and it is not against the law to plant these types of bushes. They also said that they would take no action if the kids complained. Trimmed prickly boundary hedges are one thing but bramble canes, which were suggested somewhere upthread, are a bit of a different matter if you allow them to grow out from your property over a public footpath though - and they can grow quickly. You might very well be liable for damages if someone got hurt by one whipping about in the wind. I know of someone who lost an eye like this. -- Sue |
How do I protect a hedge from the local kids?
Sue wrote: "the_constructor" wrote Trimmed prickly boundary hedges are one thing but bramble canes, which were suggested somewhere upthread, are a bit of a different matter if you allow them to grow out from your property over a public footpath though - and they can grow quickly. You might very well be liable for damages if someone got hurt by one whipping about in the wind. I know of someone who lost an eye like this. -- Sue I've mentioned it before, if the hedge isn't overhanging the pavement you could probably put up railings. If it is overhanging then cut it back. I get a bit peaved when I have to step into the road to avoid walking into peoples hedges. |
How do I protect a hedge from the local kids?
I've mentioned it before, if the hedge isn't overhanging the pavement
you could probably put up railings. If it is overhanging then cut it back. I get a bit peaved when I have to step into the road to avoid walking into peoples hedges. That's not a fair point when you don't know the situation. Yes, of course, the hedge grows outwards over the pavement but only by a few inches. I don't see how I could ensure that it didn't encroach at all without destroying the hedge myself. The key point is that the pavement is wide (at least 10 feet), and there is no unreasonable encroachment, and certainly not enough to justify pushing each other into it. Even if it was cut back a few inches, I don't see why that would make the kids want to stop doing it. |
How do I protect a hedge from the local kids?
wrote in message oups.com... Why are they congregating outside your house? They're not. They just walk past on their way to school. Thanks for the other suggestion. how about spraying something really foul smelling (but benign) on the hedge. Any lad going head long in to it will get covered in the smell. Interesting idea though again, I wonder if this would just increase the tempatation to push your mate into it...? ! Horse manure would help, I would think that their parents would say something to them if they came home covered in it, the smell alone may put them off. Alan |
How do I protect a hedge from the local kids?
"the_constructor" wrote in message ... "Mike Lyle" wrote in message oups.com... someone here wrote: "Scotty22" wrote in message ... Grow some bramble bushes inside the bush your trying to protect, and enjoy the benefits of rasberries/blackberries and protection for your bush. Just keep in under control :D:D But be aware that if anyone hurts themselves on your bramble, you could be held liable for their injuries. The sad state of Nanny Blairs England You may find that legal actions for personal injury go back a little further than New Labour: the Code of the celebrated Iraqi Hammurabi comes to mind, and that was nearly four thousand years ago. -- Mike. Where I live, we have Speight's of hedge hoppers (kids) and the local Police advised everyone at the local Residents Association meeting to plant very prickly bushes in their gardens. This way, if anyone injures themselves then it is their own faults, they should not have been there, and it is not against the law to plant these types of bushes. They also said that they would take no action if the kids complained. Different interpretations of the law. Our police force will:- Take action against you if you cause damage to someone, even if their being there is proven to be illegal. ie they scaled a six foot high wall into a yard and cut themselves on the sharp plough that was parked inside. If you are personally assaulted, they will take no action if you fought back and injured one of your attackers. We have been told to remove spiky plants from hedging which adjoins a public footpath. Also advised that it should not be near any access path to the property. YMMV |
How do I protect a hedge from the local kids?
On Tue, 9 May 2006 15:02:22 +0100, Scotty22 wrote
(in message ): Grow some bramble bushes inside the bush your trying to protect, and enjoy the benefits of rasberries/blackberries and protection for your bush. Just keep in under control :D:D These are very nasty things if you collide with one unexpectedly! I recently had to deal with a very tenacious yet totally dead and dried out bramble branch that had been this way for some time- I got caught uip in it before I realised what it was. These do not need to be alive to be nasty- the thorns seem to work perfectly for a long time afterwards- probably until the whole thing eventually rots and falls apart- which could take a long time. The drying out means a dead branch gets a lot thinner and less dangerous-looking, but it stays quite strong and stringy nevertheless. If someone put something like this inside the front of a hedge, the hooking action of the thorns means they would probably stay in place for a while- and if it ever arises one could claim somebody must have put them there. I'm wondering about this whole area myself as I have a young rose hedge and may need to consider a fence to go in front of that. It has belatedly occurred to me that some totally innocent little kid could get pushed into it, and that bothers me. -- VX (remove alcohol for email) |
How do I protect a hedge from the local kids?
wrote in message oups.com... wrote: I've mentioned it before, if the hedge isn't overhanging the pavement you could probably put up railings. If it is overhanging then cut it back. I get a bit peaved when I have to step into the road to avoid walking into peoples hedges. That's not a fair point when you don't know the situation. Yes, of course, the hedge grows outwards over the pavement but only by a few inches. I don't see how I could ensure that it didn't encroach at all without destroying the hedge myself. The key point is that the pavement is wide (at least 10 feet), and there is no unreasonable encroachment, and certainly not enough to justify pushing each other into it. Even if it was cut back a few inches, I don't see why that would make the kids want to stop doing it. Cut it back enough to put up railings or a rail then let the hedge grow into the railings. You could brace the railings from within the hedge to give extra stability. Kids won't be jumping into a railing for fun. That might solve half the problem, but add to the other half... that of them throwing other kids into the hedge? Me |
How do I protect a hedge from the local kids?
Cut it back enough to put up railings or a rail then let the hedge grow
into the railings. You could brace the railings from within the hedge to give extra stability. Kids won't be jumping into a railing for fun. That might solve half the problem, but add to the other half... that of them throwing other kids into the hedge? They push each other into it rather than throw each other into it, and I think that there would be no 'fun' in doing this if there was a rail. |
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