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[SG] Garden of Horrors

At 05:43 PM 3/29/98 -0600, you wrote:

>Then I snip the "legs" off
>at the top of each circle which gives me three separate circles with legs
>to stick into the ground
>It will work for kids, too, because they will trip over the circles if they
>don't step very carefully.

>>I will set some mouse
>>traps for the kids I know this may not work unless they are barefooted.

You guys are kidding, right?

I have found that the best way to keep kids out of the garden is to fence
it in.  I can't see any point in spending $75.00 or more on a plant, then
just trusting to luck that every kid in the neighborhood won't be
irresistably drawn to squash it.  Fencing is expensive, and certainly not
foolproof, but setting traps for kids is both reprehensible and illegal.
If somebody gets tripped on your property and injured, prepare to be sued.
Mouse traps most likely will get you arrested.  When kids act up on your
property, you have just been handed an opportunity to teach them respect
for other forms of life, best demonstrated by your own show of decent
behavior.



Sheila Smith
mikecook@pipeline.com
Z 5/6
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