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OMG! I am so mad!!! I have been to my allotment every night this week except last night. When I went tonight I noticed that my little latch gate was open. On closer inspection I realised that 2 plants had been dug up and nicked! I couldn't believe it.

last year I planted these 3 little bushes in the corner of my allotment and surround them with flowers each year. Now there is only 1 left.

I'm am mad!!!!

Clareg

Had it a few years ago in the UK, of all things small holly bushes from the front garden. Constabulary said they had been swamped with similar complaints, if I'd caught them I'd have whipped them with the holly!

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TonyF, Dordogne 24220

Cheeky buggers nicked my potatoes one year, then stuck the haulms back in the ground so I didn't notice!
A few days later I noticed the haulms looked wilted and when I pulled them out all the tatties had been nicked!
At the time, I was the only one in the street in full time employment so consoled myself that some poor destitute bugger had at least had a Sunday dinner that week!

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My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

So sorry to hear that clareg - where is your lottie? I could send Dexter round and he could bite them!
Bernie aka Dexterdog

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I need a guard dog, my tropical fish just aren't scary enough!! My allotment is at Penwortham Holme West allotments, right near the car park and main entrance, I guess I am an easy target, but why pull up plants!!!

Sorry to hear of your loss Clareg - if you wanna replace them, try growing something with very deep tap roots or something like berberis - might still get stolen but you will have the satisfaction of knowing that the thieves have had their arms and hands sliced to bits in the process.

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Rat

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Blog updated Wednesday November 13th

I'm behind the pub opposite you - there are some sad b******s around! Have you reported it to your site chairman? police? site rep?
Bernie aka Dexterdog

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Hi ddl, my allotment is on the other side of Liverpool road (rather than opposite you - are those Penwortham holme east?), I know where yours are, I can just see them as I drive past. Haven't reported it to anyone yet, was going to phone the police tomorrow and report it, and then try and get in touch with the site rep.

Its just bizarre, we went for another inspection and realised that someone has walked across our potato bed and squashed some wire fencing between my allotment and my neighbours. But why pull up two well established plants (that are actually prickly) that you can buy for a couple of quid!


Clareg

They even nicked your sweet pea flowers last year didn't they

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ntg

Never be afraid to try something new.
Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark.
A large group of professionals built the Titanic

http://grief-encounters.blogspot.com/

Well you've got to have a bit of decoration on the table when you're eating your Sunday dinner avent ya!


PS Sorry for being flippant clareg and I can understand your anger!

It's Nicks fault he's just a worky ticket!

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My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

Hey Snadger, you gotta laugh though! fancy nicking plants, how sad must someone be to do that!

Oh Clareg ! I understand how mad you must be. Imagine anyone making a thief of themselves for 2 wee bushes !
In situautions like that I just say I'm not letting people like that pull me down. Replant with something nice and let the scum of the earth get on with their own sad lives.

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You could always try spraying them with the home brew I made last year to try to stop cabbage whites eating my crop - garlic, dried chillis, vinegar all mixed to a strong brew with water!

It made my eyes water when I sprayed it - didnt put off the butterflies though, but just imagine if you ate a plant that had just been sprayed with that stuff!

Bernie aka Dexterdog

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That's awful ClareG. Have you walked around your site to check nobody has your bushes newly planted in their lottie? (Mind you, your site is very big, it would be like looking for needles in hay stack).

My lottie is on the Valley Road site before you get to the Bridge Inn. I hope you don't have that happen again, it really makes you wonder about human nature.

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I've had my weetabix...

Do you not eat your veg then Dexter???

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My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

Of course I do Snadger! As it happens I didnt eat the greens I sprayed as the b****y grubs got to the rest of them - home brew didnt put them off!

Bernie aka Dexterdog

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some folks will nick anything. Some Bast**d nicked our new lock up the lottie yesterday!!!

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ntg

Never be afraid to try something new.
Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark.
A large group of professionals built the Titanic

http://grief-encounters.blogspot.com/

Heard tell of a couple of tea leaves at a nearby allotment who went on a nicking spree and took tools from a shed owned by a local traveller family. It seems that when the lads get out of hospital, they've promised not to do it again

It happened at ours a while ago! The council supplied a new lock and forty keys. Funds were low in the association and there was no record of who had keys anyway so the 'comittee' decided to charge every allotment holder £10 for a key..........returnable if they gave up there allotment!

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My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

Were fairly new to our allotment and were dissapointed when our water butt was stolen... noticed someone on a plot near by that seems to have a fetish for them and has about 15! Mmmmm well i've learnt my lesson and will be marking anything else i get with big numbers!

Hi all,

Well I had a good look around the allotments and my bushes are no where to be seen but I did talk to as many people as I could about it. My allotment is right near the entrance which makes it an easy target, especially as so many allotment holders don't shut the gate despite the signs asking them to.

But I'm not going to let it get me down, despite being ready to take up arms and lay traps last week, I am much calmer now!

Clareg

We had our sheds broke into saturday night, they took a load of tools, left one chaps tiller, must have beed to heavy for um,best of it was they took old spades /forks. etc and left the stainless stuff, ? probly been sold at a car boot now.

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Mick aka murfe 18

Hi,

Just wanted to add a nice ending to this thread. I went to my allotment tonight to find two potted hosta plants left inside my allotment gate. Isn't that nice? I have no idea who left them but I appreciate it!

Clareg