For the past month or so my backyard has been an all out war zone. I planted a veggie garden along a fence on one side of the yard, and put some wild blueberries in the wooded area. The veggie garden has a rock/brick wall around it and is very frigging obvious. The blueberries and some other plants in the yard have 1ft-1 1/2ft stakes all around them in case people are stupid and can't see them for whatever reason.
I live in a 3 family, and one of the kids on another floor and his friends, (all around 8-10 years old) seem to go out of their way to destroy everything I put in the backyard. I've asked them very nicely several, several times not to climb all over and dismantle my stuff, and to watch out for the garden/plants and explained that this is my food, and awesome stuff like blueberries and pumpkins don't grow if you step all over them and kill them.
They run right through the garden filled with plants, trampling everything. I find the rocks and bricks in the wall scattered all over the place, I find footprints on my blueberries and strawberries. I planted a 2ft tall evergreen christmas tree, they've knocked it completely over and uprooted it twice, it's almost dead now because of this. Yesterday one of them ran it over several times and sat on it. They trample and destroy my garlic and pumpkins. They keep dismantling the fire pit, try to break my lawn chairs, and toss wood from my fire pile all over the yard, and generally fuck with anything I own back there.
The kid's parents, (mom) are never home, and when they appear to be home they don't answer the door when I knock. I've called the lardlord about this at least 5-6 times, and it doesn't stop. The kids friends are more of the problem than he is anyways, he tells them not to do shit and they do it anyway, causing most of the destruction. Appaerently the landlord wants me to deal with it, but my way of dealing with it at this point will involve an electric fence or a cattle prod.
My current next move is to booby trap everything I don't want them touching with poison ivy. That should get rid of them for a few weeks. Any suggestions?
