The green green grass of next door home

I entertain your peeve also. People are nuts with over-watering in my neighborhood. Some water every single day, which even in a drought, one should not do. Also, being bad for the lawn is not the main problem; over watering kills trees. It rots many tree's roots. My subdivision has 100+ year old oak trees. The over-waterers have killed some. First the tree looks bad, then you see the mushrooms - likely sprouting from the decaying roots that surfaced because of the constant surface water, and then dead canopies.

One family has around seven magnolia trees in his yards. Six are in flower beds, with bushes and mulches touching their trunks - big no-no, and the family waters all the time in addition. One of their magnolia trees has no flower bed nor mulch around it, and is planted on a slope. It looks good, with full lush green, thick leaves. The other six have canopies that look like a dog with manage - small, browning, scraggly leaves with thin overall coverage. Also his six mangy looking ones just started sprouting blooms. The varietal they have, bloom in Spring. Blooming now is caused by the mangy canopy letting sunlight onto the limbs causing them to bloom. It looks like the person would realize the difference between the six mangy ones and the nice looking one. Instead, they probably think the six bad ones need more water.

Another neighbor told me her next door neighbor waters the lawn every night starting around 11:00pm and the sprinklers run until mid morning.

Some of the overwaters have clouds of small gnats swarming along the ditches that front their yards. I am afraid the Association will employ fumigators instead of asking the people to quit watering.

Sentencing might be coming soon. I have noticed the wild pigs are returning - two dead in front of my house from vehicle hits, slight rooting in my yard, and feces under some oak trees. Ten years ago, they came, and my yard was hit first because of location. Since I do not over-water, they did minimal damage, but a few weeks later as they went deeper into the subdivision, they devastated the over-water yards. Our yards are 2 to 3 acres, and some of the over-watered yards were left with no grass in non-fenced areas - the front yards looked like freshly, tractor tiled plots on farmyard with all the grass piled up. Over-watering causing worms to surface, which is a favorite food for pigs, so they run through the yards, plowing the wet soil and grass, eating worms. It will be funny if history repeats.

Totally agree my neighbor has dandelions and the seeds blow right onto my yard!!!! And when I use weed and feed he says that's bad for his dandelliosn. Grrrrr! Good thing I'm on the board and we don't let people get away with crap like this! After the letter with threat of fines sent no more issues. Oh and he painted his mail box without an arc!!!!

Either move, since you do not have a Board or a manager that will do their job or stay and just put up with it. You can also run for the Board.

Do the docs state Bermuda is only type of grass allowed?

FWIW I can't tell the difference between Bermuda or Kentucky Bluegrass. Whats the beef?

Good for him. Winter is dreary and splash of green sounds good to me.

That actually is a treatment for grass from planting to filling in the bald spots, along with aerating the lawn. I really don't see an issue. Is there a covenant that says you need to use a specific grass type?