Who's been sneaking into my bed?

I take it your veg are growing in your garden. Is it easy to get in from the road or neighbouring properties. Teenagers aren't usually quiet, and in my experience don't usually eat fresh vegetables.

Could it be pigeons? They can get into netting and are voracious.
Re. Teenagers and RL's comment above. What's the difference between brussels sprouts and bogies?
You can't get schoolboys to eat brussels sprouts!

Big light on a sensor should do it!

Then lay in wait with a supersoaker!

You could report the theft to the police explaining you had just sprayed with a virulent pesticide and that they should not be eaten.


Colin

No, it's like Fortknox, with solid 6 foot fencing all the way around and a paddlock on the gate (also 6 ft). We have prikka strip around the top but, that said, we have had prowlers before but not recently.

The teenagers in question have been brazen about going into peoples gardens and sheds and carrying away everything from signs to back door mats (I kid you not), from plants in pots/tubs to gnomes happily minding their own business. They only take one item at a time though which makes it seem more like a 'game' they're playing. If it were teenagers (and that was OHs suggestion not mine) I'm sure eating the mangetout would be the last thing they'd do. From what I've heard about other disappearances, it's more a case of who would get the most unusual or weirdest trophy - but that is all supposition because, as far as I'm aware, the lightfingered little oiks haven't been caught yet.

I don't think so because the rings that had been used to fasten the netting had actually been removed, and it was wide open, and I think a pigeon would have gone through the gap the instant it was big enough. Oh and one more thing, which makes me think it's a human of some description, is that the big fat ones which I had missed were still there. It was the nice tender flat ones which were taken.

It really doesn't make any sense at all. Very, very odd. Guess I'll never know for certain and hopefully we won't have a recurrance later in the season.

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