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Thu, Mar 31, 11 at 19:49
| I am joining a CG this spring as I am now renting a place and have no garden space. This is a newer garden, only 2 years old in a small rural town. The last 2 years a known person was stealing produce and actually taking it to a farmer's market in a neighboring town! I will be growing some special things like heirloom tomatoes and specialty peppers and eggplant. Any suggestions for deterring this thief from taking my stuff? he was a CG member and was kicked out for this year but that may not stop him. It is not fenced and is on the edge of town near a factory. |
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- Posted by strngelitlgrrl 7 (My Page) on Sun, Apr 3, 11 at 6:43
| I don't know if this is feasible for you, depends on how many member you have, but at our CG, we only have about a dozen members. We have a padlock on the gate, and every year the members get a key (one of our members works at a hardware store and gets the keys copied for free). We also have very good neighbors beside the garden that watch our for "funny business". |
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| There aren't many members but it is in a big open space next to an industrial building. They are providing the water. No fences, no neighbors. I don't know if it would do anything to post a sign saying I will prosecute. I am hoping folks will be out there a lot to make it look busy and maybe deter him that way. |
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- Posted by lazygardens PhxAZ%3A Sunset 13 (My Page) on Sun, Apr 24, 11 at 9:27
| You might have to stake out the garden and videotape him in action, then videotape him at the farmer's market with the goods. If he's after the high-value produce, some of that has markings that are variable enough to make identifying a certain eggplant or tomato possible. Then call the cops and make a theft complaint. With high-value veggies, it might even reach felony level. |
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- Posted by beachplant 9b (beachplant@excite.com) on Thu, Sep 22, 11 at 10:45
| Good luck. There are only a few members in our CG, it's surrounded by a tall fence and the gates are locked. Came back from vacation this spring to find someone had whacked the heads off every single sunflower!! It had to be one of us. You have to be a member of the neighborhood association to get a plot in the garden, most of us have been there for years. We've had eggplant and other things go missing. Sorry but noone is climbing a 10' chain link fence to steal a couple of eggplants! There aren't any needy people gardening with us that need to steal, the average income of my plot neighbors is over $100,000 per year, as a nurse I'm the poorest one in the garden. Good luck. Tally HO! |
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| Put up a video surveillance sign :P Even if it is not true, might be of help. |
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| This may not help everyone in the garden... But if you want to look out for #1.... -Plant the stuff that is hard to harvest near the entrance to your plot. Sugar snap peas, beans, carrots, beets (you get the idea.) In the middle plant the good stuff ($$$$). Maybe srpinkle some stuff that looks like deadly ag chemicals near the entrance and close to the good stuff. Baby powder, dried out crushed egg shells. Maybe 'he' won't take it if won't command a price premium that organic veggies get. |
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