some other tips to prevent stealing of crops : If you don't like to go for 10 feet high barbed and electrified wire; a small trick that sometimes helps is put up a sign that the crops are just sprayed with something toxic.
Or if you have some fence, put up a sign of " beware of the dog " with a picture of a big scary dog on it. Grow an hedge around the garden with sticky needles on it, they'll chose an easier garden to rob. A pair of goose ducks or turkey's are good watch dogs and keep 'm out. ( if you have some separate space around the vegie garden ) grts Bruno M. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ At 17:42 2/09/2008, Jesse Frayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi Robert and Kirk, >We have had a garden on public land for 5 years, the first year everything was >stolen. I saw a guy leaving with a grocery bag full of my tomatoes. I said, >say, I hope you enjoy my garden. He says, oh, gee, I thought this was the >schoolkids' garden. Like that make it okay! It's puzzling how most people >don't understand how much work it is to grow stuff, they only see, wow, I love >swiss chard! > >My daughter put a string around the garden last year, with a sign: "Please, >until we make our garden bigger, and can share with more people, leave us some >of the produce." We had 30 apples on our young tree, someone took them all in >one night, and broke branches too. Tree was so pissed off it put out only one >blossom this spring. > >We have had no theft this year EXCEPT THE CORN! So your letter struck me. I >think it's finally sinking in. Perhaps also due to the surveillance of a >great family of little Muslim kids who live near the garden and who come to >help me putter around sometimes. They're very invested and mourn each loss. > >Anyway, very sorry about your marauders. They just don't know what they're >doing, eh? Stealing stuff before it's even ripe. I shrug my shoulders. >Best > >Jesse Frayne >itsdinner.ca >Neighbourhood catering and general joie de livre >==================================================== > >--- On Sun, 8/31/08, robert and benita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> From: robert and benita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Kirk McLoren wrote: >> >> >No they wontcontinue to grow. >>-------------------------------------------------------------- >> That's what I figured! >> >> >Immature corn is a delicacy. The bottom half of the ear should have >> >something. >> Most of them do. I planted two rows every two weeks, so we've got a >> range of maturity happening in there. Worse, I decided to use the >> "aboriginal method" of maize planting this year. >> Once the corn stalks came up, I planted pole beans, and once I saw the pole >> beans come up, I planted squash. The beans have climbed all over the maize, >> so now that the stalks have been damaged, a lot of the beans are > ruined, >> too! >> Trampling the maize also had the effect of trampling the squash, so >> really, whoever did this has ruined THREE crops for me! >> >> > If someone did something like that to me they would have bad luck. >> If only I could strike such terror into the heart of whomever did this >> . . . >> >> robert luis rabello ====================================================== _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
