Allotment targeted again - lots of wood stolen

[gorgeousgrower]

So fed up today about the stuff which has been taken and vandalised.

1 garden bench, various logs, at least half a dozen long lengths of wood and various other small bits of wood.

All of it has been taken over a 6ft high fence (with spikey tops) and burnt!!! None of it has monetary value but it was all extremely useful and will be missed

People can easily climb over said spikey fence as I've seen older kids do it to retrieve a ball.

I was thinking of putting something unsavoury in the undergrowth which grows just below the fence on my side. Nothing to hurt anyone, just something which will be/feel/smell unpleasant! Any ideas?

[VirginVegGrower]

Nettles! Feel very unpleasant :-/

[veggiechicken]

Water butts full of smelly comfrey or manure liquid? Holly bush prunings? Brambles trained along the top of the fence?

[Snadger]

Pyracantha?

[VirginVegGrower]

Or Chaenomeles - rosa rugosa hedging another. The former is ground cover and thorny. The latter vicious but vertical.

[Gearoid]

Train a rambling rose with massive thorns along the fence. And if it's a sunny spot, plant lots of sea holly at the bottom (easy to grow from fresh seed).

[binley100]

anti vandal paint along the top of the fence .........

[KarlB924]

Please, NEVER paint anti-vandal paint along the top of a fence. For your own sake.

The state of the legal system as it currently stands, is if you cause anyone harm, even if they are trespassing on your own land, you can get in trouble. A company I know had a lot of problems with trespassers and vandalism, so they painted the tops of their walls and along the edges of their roofs with anti-vandal paint. Someone slipped and was seriously injured trying to break in, the company was at fault.

If you want to deter people from breaking in, grow thorny, horrible bushes. Using anti-vandal paint can be argued in court as a wilful action... some nice natural bushes are easier to explain away!

[donnakebab]

I'd go with fruit bearing thorny stuff and climbing roses.

[Two_Sheds]

I have pyracantha up my 6ft fence, it doesn't mind a bit of shade at all, has lovely spring blossom, lovely berries for the birds, is good nesting for birds and has big vicious thorns.

Easy to grow from cuttings. PM me if you want some

[Aberdeenplotter]

I'd be for putting Grunt and Phil Mitchell in the undergrowth. If that didn't put vandals off, nowt would. Seriously though, it's such a pain having to put up with that sort of nonsense and not being able to take reasonable steps to keep out people who have no bleeding right to be there in the first place just compounds the problem.

[Currysniffa]

We have a 8ft fence with padlocked gates all the way round one of our lotties and it still didn't stop the kids in the 6 week holidays from coming on and pulling plants up smashing stuff up.

On the other hand on the other lottie we're on anyone could just walk on as there's no gates or fence but touch wood nothing much happens apart from people walking there dogs and letting them make a mess all over the grass paths... I'd grow some spiny fruit bushes if it was me..

[binley100]

Please, NEVER paint anti-vandal paint along the top of a fence. For your own sake.

The state of the legal system as it currently stands, is if you cause anyone harm, even if they are trespassing on your own land, you can get in trouble. A company I know had a lot of problems with trespassers and vandalism, so they painted the tops of their walls and along the edges of their roofs with anti-vandal paint. Someone slipped and was seriously injured trying to break in, the company was at fault.

If you want to deter people from breaking in, grow thorny, horrible bushes. Using anti-vandal paint can be argued in court as a wilful action... some nice natural bushes are easier to explain away!

I thought the bitumen stuff was sticky rather than slippy ....

[salome2001]

I like the smelly items. And the thorny bushes. One season ought to be enough to get some blackberries going wild. If you wanted a real trick you could plant the thornless ones, you'd have to be pretty close to realise....

[snakeshack]

I like pyracantha but blackthorn has the same viscous spines and you can use the sloes for gin,or quince which has nice flowers useful fruit and of course ......ruddy great thorns!