Part of having a community garden without fences separating the gardens, and a very low fence (easy even for me to jump over when I forget my key) is that garden goodies inevitably get 'sampled'. One of our neighbors told us she had seen people walking around with small backpacks and knives and then jumping over the gate to get out, and it doesn't take a lot of imagination to guess what they were doing. Of course berries growing along pathways get munched on, no big deal in my opinion. I once even saw a guy helping himself to some tulips! Our latest casualty was our first real bell pepper. After nursing the plant from seed (on March 15th!) and transplanting it out into the big bad world (May 21st) it had finally started ripening it's very first pepper into a wonderful shade of orange (around Aug 15). Of course we wanted to pick it at its full color and when we went to the garden, discovered that it was gone! I guess a large glaring orange bell pepper, babied to ripeness in a climate not fit to grow peppers has an invisible sign on it saying 'take me'. It was a very sad day indeed, 5 months of anticipation, only to be let down. Let's hope that the remaining 3 peppers on the plant make it to maturity, and this time I will not be waiting to pick them. And I hope those #@$&!@ that took it really needed food (which I doubt, because Switzerland is not a poverty ridden nation) or else they should know that karma is a bitch! In other news, next year I will be growing more exotic vegetables (aka asian veggies) because I doubt they will steal stuff they have no idea how to cook!
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