we have a lot of theaft from allotments in Surrey and they trample all over cropsdestroying everything in site, the police do nothing about it and the council won't make them more secure,as we all know if they want to get in they will, really sad what this country has come to.
I was in a book shop recently and saw an RHS journal for Allotments so I bought one. In the back there is a list of useful numbers and one of them is for the NSALG, The National Society of Allotment and Leisure Gardeners. They advertise insurance from Bluefin designed for allotments. I am giving it some serious thought because I have had things taken and although it hasn't cost me alot so far I can imagine it will.
Like one of the other writers said it is an extension of the house and feels more important to me than the house so it only feels right to protect it.
I always kept my allotment shed padlocked but after the thired time it was smashed off the door was damaged badly and after patching it up again I decided not to lock it up.Insted of having a nice tidy shed I leave it messy with empty sacks and old nets ect at the entrance and hide any good stuff at the rear under more tat. This has been the best deterrent so far,The other sheds on the site all had things taken but my tools were all there.In the gloom the thievs couldn't find my good spade folk ect.It is a good half hours brisk walk to my site so I have to leave my tools.If I had a car I would only use the shed to shelter in when it rains.To be robbed time and time again is soul destroying.
Somebody has stolen my favourite garden programme and let monty back to spoil it again. If any one knows what has happened to Toby and Alys then can we please have them put back where they belong.
I have just discovered that my eggs were being stolen from my hen house! After three weeks of getting no eggs at all from my 13 hens (which has never happened before, even through the snow etc) I found that one of the fence posts was broken in the run (like someone had tried to climb over). I decided to get a lock for the nest box door and surprise surprise...eggs every day! whats worse is that our allotment has a six foot security fence with a padlocked gate...meaning it was a fellow allotmenteer who has been theiving from me...not a nice feeling at all (
My allotment continues to be the victim of theft. I have had all my sheds broken into several times. The culprits seem to return on the search for metal of any kind and even steel the taps to our water supply. The last time they broke the doors but only stole 3 items from the tool collection and the wheel barrow and left the rest.
I inherited a couple of metal "barrels" when I moved house. They were about 3ft tall and the previous owner obviously grew the odd plant in them (not well looked after but it was winter after all) and she obviously decided they were too heavy to carry/move so left them there. It was only on New Years Eve when a few people had come over and were using the back garden as the designated smoking area that I realised there was a HUGE mound of soil piled up in the middle of my garden path. The next morning in daylight I realised just where they'd come from, the metal barrels had vanished and their contents strewn over the path. I hope they made a few pence on selling it as scrap, but I am plastic planters all the way from now on in the unsecured garden.
I live in an old terraced house with a locked/bolted 6ft back gate and fence with spikes on it but my front garden is very small & is just slabbed over. I've had several nicely planted up pots nicked from this garden; pots picked up & then just dropped breaking them & spilling the contents over the slabs, road & path to the front door. I've had empty cans thrown into my front garden along with polystyrene burger boxes, empty cigarette & crisp packets & newspaper strewn about. I have reported losses to the police only to discover that other (semi or detached) houses in my road have had their back gardens raided with expensive garden furniture, large expensive to replace potted plants etc stolen so I guess I should consider myself lucky that these thieves can't get into my back garden too.
Well I have an allotment down in stainforth, and week after week thief's strike, taking greenhouses for scrap, water butts tools ect. It has being happening alot recently, for the demand for scarp metal. So the allotment committee bought a brand new galvanized steel fence to go all the way round the allotment's area also keeping the thief's out at the same time, did it work to keep the thief's out, nope not at all. so then we had to put barbed wire along the top of the fence and smother the barbed wire in vandal grease. But we cannot put the barbed wire all the way round the fence, for obvious reasons money, so we have to get people ti give to us. Its a shame really you have to got to these certain extents to keep thief's out Its only gardening, not a prison site.
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Like one of the other writers said it is an extension of the house and feels more important to me than the house so it only feels right to protect it.
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I have reported losses to the police only to discover that other (semi or detached) houses in my road have had their back gardens raided with expensive garden furniture, large expensive to replace potted plants etc stolen so I guess I should consider myself lucky that these thieves can't get into my back garden too.