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If you live in an apartment building with lots of children, then you may have to restrict your gardening to indoors only.

I tried growing a small container garden outside underneath my window, but the four sons of the --------speaking lady next door to me completely destroyed it. I came home from work one night to find that all of my plants had been pitched over the railing and were strewn all across the parking lot below. I knew instantly that the wind couldn't have done it because even the heaviest pots were gone but none of the plastic saucers underneath were disturbed (if it were the wind, it would have taken them too). I went downstairs to the parking lot to see if anything was salvageable, but everything was ruined and although there were several big piles of potting soil and crushed plants everywhere, all of my pots were mysteriously missing. Later, one of the kids was bragging to another neighbor that he and his brothers had smashed all of my pots. I went over and calmly and politely confronted them about it. Not only did the kids admit to destroying my container garden, but they also didn't really seem to understand why their actions were wrong. When I tried talking to their mother about their behavior, she acted like it was my fault for planting pots out there for her kids to get into in the first place.

I guess that you can't realistically expect children to have respect for other people's property if their parents don't have any respect either.