...Just be diligent, myself I’ve hooked up sensor chimes that I got off Amazon. Anyone who walks near my plants will set off a loud chime in my house. What other methods do people in Mass use to detour rippers and thief’s?????
Excellent thread! This year, I keep my one plant not truly hidden from view, but instead I keep it "blurry" or "pixelated" by supporting a "clear" shower-curtain that allows light to pass through but makes everything appear diffused & blurry. When close, it's not too difficult to guess that there's some sort of plant behind it, but from afar you can't even really tell that much. It may seem obvious, of course, that something is being hidden behind the blurry curtain, but it
is an effective means of "muting" the fact that I'm growing. It goes from loud & unquestionable advertising of the plant itself, to an ambiguous blur that "blends" into the environment better than, say, a wall or a tarp.
This next idea is one I'm not using this year, but worth sharing: I also love using a portable "blind" that I created, awesome for guerilla grows: I got myself some ghille-material, which is the stuff U.S. snipers wear, or some hunters use, to remain brilliantly camouflaged, (mine is a "Blind Ghille" from Mojo), & attached it to a tomato-rack/trellis. The gille-blind is like a net (like for scrogging) but has fake grass clustered in tiny bundles, so it looks like a wall of grass, but totally natural when in a natural environment. I've cut PVC & zip-tied 2 to come-up about a foot from the side-wall of a milk-crate (about 18" of PVC maybe, from the "floor" of the milk-crate to 6 - 8 inches or so above the milk-crate). Now, if I need to, I then can slide the legs of the 3-panel tomato-rack down into the PVC pipes (one milk-crate for every panel of tomato-rack) and this elevates my tomato-rack/ ghille-blind to a height that hides my plants as they get taller. I just put a heavy rock or weight-plates inside the milk-crate to keep it sturdy, because the wind will knock-down the wall, possible onto the plant, which is never a good thing.
This year, fortunately, I don't need to use my ghilles, but I love the electronic sensor idea. Harbor Freight sells them for $14-- $10 on sale. I use them as a "doorbell" for when the cats want to come inside... It alerts me that they're there & need me to open the door. They're made with different sounds & frequencies, so you can know exactly which sensor is triggered, & therefore we'd know exactly where to go in our garden! Awesome thread, thanks!
(I have presence, but no videos posted yet.)
