Greenhouse vandalised !

[mark smyth]

My greenhouse has been vandalised again over night or this morning. Two sets of louvres broken and crocus, colchicums and oxalis lifted. This time they were not stolen but emptied from their pots and stood on and pulled apart. I really dont want to cover the green house windows with wire.

[art600]

Can you make it more difficult for them to get to the greenhouse?

Thank goodness they leave the garden alone!

[indigo]

Good grief!  How awful for you.  What are the police doing?

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Sorry to hear that Mark !

Some empty headed people really don't know what to do with their time... 

[fleurbleue]

I'm dismayed for you Mark 

[maggiepie]

Am really sorry to hear this, Mark.
Can't believe there are such idiots around with nothing better to do. It must be so frustrating as well as heartbreaking.
I hope whoever did this gets their just deserts before too much longer.

[Ragged Robin]

Mark, this is terrible news - you seem to have had your fair share of bad luck recently and I do hope things will turn around.  Wondering if you could install security lights or an alarm of some sort - maybe just a tripwire with a deep pit to leave them in 

[mark smyth]

Thanks everyone. The police won't care. Someone has suggested putting old engine oil on the wall. It was a great day for photos and all I did was move the plunge contents from one side to the other.

I think I'll take the louvres out and put the glass back in

[johnw]

This is absolutely sickening Mark.  

I had a simply motion detector that runs on batteries and cost about £7 and you could hear it for half a kilometer.

When the home security system started acting up this summer they replaced the main panel which originally cost £600 (including all the wiring and detectors) for £50.  Now I have new sensors for entry and temperature (all wireless) and they work from the greenhouse to the main house relay.  The siren would raise Canon Ellacombe from the dead.  Either is worth looking into.  

I also see tiny remote cameras that feed into the home computer, fairly inexpensive at the big box stores.

This sounds like the work of some drunken idiot.

johnw

[mark smyth]

Yes, probably drunks or school kids, John

[dominique]

Very sad for you Mark
Dom

[David Shaw]

Sorry to hear of your problem, Mark. I suppose that connecting the greenhouse frame to the electricity would be frowned on.

[David Nicholson]

It would be well worth a try!

As would a coat of anti-vandal paint on top of the wall. It's obtainable at most DIY stores, a particularly glutinous black that never hardens and puts a coat on anyone attempting to climb over the wall.

[johnw]

It would be well worth a try!

As would a coat of anti-vandal paint on top of the wall. It's obtainable at most DIY stores, a particularly glutinous black that never hardens and puts a coat on anyone attempting to climb over the wall.

I'd be very cautious resorting to those sorts of measures.  Imagine the havoc a teen might wreak if a ₤75 pair of super-baggy pants (or whatever you call them) were to get stained!

johnw

[mark smyth]

razor wire