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Originally Posted by DNSB
One local place used to have what they called a communal garden but was closer to an allotment since the planting spots were raised garden beds. It was shut down due to ongoing issues with people doing their vegetable "shopping" there. Two neighbours of mine had a spot there for quite a few years. One weekend a couple of years ago, when they went to tend their plot, their tomato plants had been stripped bare for the second year in a row. At that point, they like many of the other gardeners, decided against renewing their spot.
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We are lucky on our site we very very rarely get any theft of produce, we did have one incident last year (might have been the year before) where an older lady was going into the site (she wasn't a plot holder) and was using it like a supermarket going from plot to plot picking what she fancied and filling up a basket. Luckily the chap behind my allotment saw her and told her not to do that and not to come back to the site as she wasn't a plot holder.
It is disgusting how people think theft is perfectly OK, they try to justify it by saying it's only some veg, but they forget we've had to buy the seeds, seed compost, potting on compost, heat the greenhouse, then spend our time looking after the seeds/ plants, planting out, feeding the plants, watering them etc