All the tales from the zucchini police were enlightening. Saddest of all was the one from Fairbanks, about how the drug dealers and their children don't need to listen to ranting gardeners about stolen cabbages... The last frontier is polluted with our general lack of courtesy. For my lawn, breaking down and buying a chain link fence is now a necessity. We are in a relatively middle-class city neighborhood but the kids cut across the lawn, through flowers, not around the walk. I don't want to discontinue the school bus stop which has been in the same place for 20 years, since my boyfriend's kids attended school over a decade ago, because my car is full of posters in the back window and bumper stickers for thought. How else can we reach the drug dealers kids? My car in the driveway is the most political thing they know.
SAD state of affairs but nothing new, my late father-in-law had the problem in the 1950's across from Camden H.S. in New Jersey. His fence was only 4 ft. so after his death in 1961 the kids took to jumping the fence to destroy the organic fruit trees. Maybe some of the former students remember that garden and are part of the people in Camden trying to do a community garden. Helen Steely Hbg., Pa. ______________________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: https://secure.mallorn.com/mailman/listinfo/community_garden
