Name: Jeanie Minnesota (Zone 4a) Replace your lawn with a garden!
I think it's bad where I am because the adolescent age kids go up the alley in the evening to get to the elementary school playground across the street; they like to party there and are probably in the right frame of mind to get into mischief along the way. Kids will be kids.
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Old gardeners never die. They are just pruned and repotted.