Maybe they ARE a gardener and a maid. Who wants to do at home what you do all day for a job?

Hahaha---- Oldblue yur too darn funny!

Typical  ... Oppps I forget that the only people that can't keep their lawns have to be from Mexico ??? I know you probably didn't even graduate elementary school but here is a quick lesson .... Ummmm are all lawns in oildale kept? I mean besides the methlab waste ??   Every immigrant is MEXICAN ?? really ?? i was unaware that the world consisted of anglo, mexican and african

I have to have a little talk with my gardeners this week.  They sprayed roundup on my Garbera Daises and plucked all the unopened flowers off my Day lilies.  Finding a decent gardener is a real chore.  My account has been sold so many times I'm beginning to wonder who my pimp is!

 I would never hire a gardener. Doing the work ourselves is relaxing and I love the feeling of having a beautiful yard. I must say we have one of the nicest on our block. Our neighbor has  a beautiful yard too.

Foodjunkie, sometime the truth just hurts....

BTW if I lived in Oildale in the rougher areas of the dale I probably wouldn't be complaining but I don't!

I do the planting and "gardening" myself.  The gardeners do the mowing and edging.   About two times a year they trim the hedges.  I trim the trees.  Why they started messing with the flowers, I don't know. 

I must agree yard work relaxes the mind, I would love it if the folks who's yards are pig pens would just look around and take a lesson and realize that they live in a beautiful part of Bakersfield.

tch I bet you spend hours critiquing your yard!

SI Senior mi lawn es muy malo por gringos

Okay Panfilio, how did you come up with the new name of foodjunkie?

It makes me feel good knowing my yard looks kept up.  It really upsets me when a yard looks like crap. Makes the entire neighborhood look bad.

It is only spring and summer here for a super short time, more time than not our yard is covered in snow, so we try to  use the time wisely :0) My husband is even more yard obsessed than I am.

Your a good boy foodjunkie.... keep your yard clean and green!

:) i try

when i lived with my family in riverlakes we had a gardener.. (im not racist, nor is this a racist comment) he was the only white gardener around our block, and our yard looked amazing!!!! Goes to prove not only one ethnicity does gardening.

If you have a problem with your neighbors, why don't you knock on their door and explain gardening etiquette to them. I'm sure they'll get right on it. You can let them know you and yours resent weeds and toys scatterred on their property. Maybe you can offer to do their gardening and make some extra cash, or create a home owners association with the rest of your neighbors and become property police to also monitor paint shades and garbage can placement.

adam good idea, maybe we can nominate you for pres.

adam, you suggest PureAmerican go talk to his neighbor? What if he only speaks English, and they don't? Then what?

You haven't seen badly kept yards until you've been to small-town Oregon. They make Fred Sanford's junkyard look like the Playboy Mansion. Anyone who has a well-kept yard and flushes the toilet after taking a dump must be one a them elitist Californicators come up there to get their land (we sure as hell wouldn't want their women).

I agree with Adam.  It sounds like an association would be PERFECT for you.

My Hispanic neighbors keep their yards immaculate.

However, my White neighbor across the street don't appear to give a damn about his.