Just a quick question here, folks.

I live on Taplin Road and some of the houses (mine included) have hedges that seem to double as litter bins for the lazy passerby.

I'm not sure what's worse, litter on the ground or in my hedge...maybe encoraging nettles or poison ivy to grow within the hedge would help.

Anyone else suffer from this problem and found a way to combat it?

Tell me about it! I have a hedge 3 mtrs high, I like my privacy, and some of the stuff I have found in it is unmentionable. I have also found syringe needles, bags of dog poo, for heavens sake if you pick it up take it home.

I have also found strange stuff thats been thrown over incl, Hockey sticks, a full mans suit, not my size unfortunately, and other items of woman clothing, also not my size unfortunatley, no, no, only joking.

Thankfully we usually get the chip papers and crisp packets rather than used syringes.:gag:

I sometimes wonder what these people would do if I collected it and deposited the whole lot in their garden...Victor Meldrew had an interesting take on the whole issue!:thumbsup:

Ingenius idea, if I may?

Uproot the hedge, and replace with a row of wheelie bins. My father-in-law makes signs and he can print off some of that lovely 'leaf-effect' that you can stick to your impressive row of wheelie bins!

On a more serious note, I'm afraid the answer lies somehow in educating the scruffs that deem it acceptable to use your hedge as a convenient place to dump their rubbish. It's rather pathetic isn't it?

On my regular runs up to Redmires Dams it angers me that someone has taken the effort to transport all their garden waste and decided to dump it by the road side.

Lazy, inconsiderate and filthy sceeeeerruuubbbbeeerrrsss!!

Plant some hawthorn within the hedge, about 18" apart. Don't know how long it would take to grow, though. Depends on the size you buy I expect.
Hawthorn is worse than bee or wasp stings. Give 'em something to think about. :hihi:

Not exactly hedge related but certainly pertaining to others waste on my property, I live in a flat above a shop and there are 3 flats to my immediate right. In between mine and my neighbours stairwell a fridge has appeared over-night. I went out for a fag about 10 ish last night and was up at 4.30 this morning and to my mind it looks like some stealthy b***er has crept up in the dead of night and just dumped this damn fridge freezer in the space between the stairways. I must be losing my touch, I used to wake up at the slightest sound so if miscreants can deposit redundant household items near my door I think I'll have to admit I'm getting past it!

Ruddy litter louts!

I used to live in Ecclesfield, by the bus-stop opposite Morrison's and right next to the common, and although we very rarely had people dumping stuff in our hedge (the drive outside the front garage was usually reserved for that privilege), I think just about every piece of litter that was dumped on the common used to blow across and weave itself into the hedge and other plants in our back garden, including quite a lot of stuff which was dumped in bins and then blew out again. Took me forever trying to keep it semi-tidy (fully tidy was a state I never managed to achieve)

Our garden wall is at the end of a row of terraces - perfect for kids to lounge against and then chuck their rubbish over at the end of a satisfying evening scoffing cola and crisps.

I'm glad to see that there are other people out there that think littler should be placed in a bin and not on public display.

I like the idea of replacing the hedge with wheelie-bins...that way I wouldn't have to cut the ruddy thing every few months!:clap:

Makes me wish that there was such a thing as the Justice Zone from the Red Dwarf episode; a strange sci-fi forcefield that makes sure whatever misdeeds are commited by a person the consequences actually happen to them.

Imagine it: they dump litter in your garden and it materialises on their livingroom carpet (particularly rewarding when it's leftover kebab), they crap their dog outside your house and the offending mess reappears under the cushions of their sofa, they have a piddle in your street and at the same time their letterbox magically opens and the stream of wee shoots into their hallway.:thumbsup:

We don't have a hedge, but luckily I still get to enjoy clearing up other people's litter when they poke it into the spare wheel on the back of my car... crisp packets, chip papers, cola cans, lolly sticks... lovely.

Originally posted by Norah
We don't have a hedge, but luckily I still get to enjoy clearing up other people's litter when they poke it into the spare wheel on the back of my car... crisp packets, chip papers, cola cans, lolly sticks... lovely.

Bet they'd kick off if you shoved it in their pockets, eh?!? :suspect:

Originally posted by Swan_Vesta
..... In between mine and my neighbours stairwell a fridge has appeared over-night. I went out for a fag about 10 ish last night and was up at 4.30 this morning and to my mind it looks like some stealthy b***er has crept up in the dead of night and just dumped this damn fridge freezer in the space between the stairways.
Cheeky buggers :suspect:
Phone the council - domestic fridges/freezers are the only thing they will take away FREE.....

Several times I complained to Rotherham Council about their paper recycle collector team habitually screwing the blue plastic bag into a ball & ramming it into my closely cropped front bush!

It didn't cure the horticultural vandals.

I now take my waste paper elsewhere.

I live on Psalter Lane and my back gate opens out on Ecclesall Road. Chavs and students seem to have a real passion for lobbing cans and beer bottles over the gate (its a solid wooden 6 foot high job in an alleyway) and into my back passage (if you'll excuse the phrase). Its very annoying, especially as there's a public bin not ten feet away!

My 58 yr old neighbour seems to have a habit that is very difficult to break, she also has a poor memory. I know she's the one who repeatedly throws crisp packets and other sweet wrappers out of her bedroom window (I know where she shops, what brands and flavours so that's evidence enough).
I try to keep my rose bed free from weeds and try to deter cats from using the soil as a loo and sometimes it's just too much when a fellow human has to add to to my lot (I suffer with AS). She'll get it all back one day with interest!
As for the front hedge - I lopped my privet down to half it's size after continually finding beer cans, bottles and what have you amongst the branches and I suspect (although can't prove) that it's the same neighbour's sons responsible.

Originally posted by Draggletail
Cheeky buggers :suspect:
Phone the council - domestic fridges/freezers are the only thing they will take away FREE.....

Nice one Draggletail - good to know they'll actually take away something FOC!

Originally posted by tiffy
(I suffer with AS)
Sorry for asking, but what's AS? Asperger's Syndrome? Athero Sclerosis?

Originally posted by DanSumption
Sorry for asking, but what's AS? Asperger's Syndrome? Athero Sclerosis?
Oops, looks like you just answered my question here (http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?postid=439721#post439721)!