Who's been sneaking into my bed?

[reetnproper]

That's what I would like to know and I'm not talking about my cosy double upstairs

Despite a 6ft fence all the way around, it would appear someone has helped themselves to my mangetout (although OH thinks I'm imagining things )! I'm not senile yet and I know the netting around my mangetout was secure last night.

The lack of pods when there were loads yesterday AND the fact that the netting was wide open (not gaping you understand - WIIIIIIIIDE) when it was snug, tight and secure yesterday evening all point to a sneak thief (and no it wasn't OH as he didn't get home until very late last night).

OHs' other idea is that teenagers have nipped over the fence for a laugh and helped themselves but oddly nothing else seems to have gone. There again, OH is regularly having a smoke outside the back door, so it's possible he spooked whoever before they could have a good look and 'pick' of other things. There is a bit of a problem with teenagers playing 'chicken', trophy hunting and taking all manner of strange things from gardens and sheds, in our village at the moment.

I'm pretty annoyed and have fastened everything up right and tight now but it'll worry me more as the sweetcorns and pumpkins begin to grow and show .

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[rustylady]

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.

[Flummery]

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!

[Glutton4...]

Big light on a sensor should do it!

[Glutton4...]

Then lay in wait with a supersoaker!

[Potstubsdustbins]

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

[reetnproper]

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.

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.

Could it be pigeons? They can get into netting and are voracious

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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