Stealing from P-Patch garden

Because this is peak harvest season, I’m sure it’s very tempting to take ripe produce from your local P-Patch garden. Please don’t.

I went to water my garden this evening and found that the corn and beans I had been nurturing since spring had all been stolen. What’s especially unfortunate is that they weren’t actually ready to be harvested yet. Both needed to dry on the vine in order to be utilized properly. Whoever took the corn and beans also cut (with a blade) the one head of cabbage I was growing. They broke over the protective fence I had erected, destroying some of it, in order to access these plants. They left things that still were not ripe. They (mostly) knew what they were doing.

I can only hope that person needed the food more than me. Regardless, stealing from someone’s P-Patch is a pretty shitty thing to do. Gardners, harvest your produce the minute it’s ready. Everyone else, please look with your eyes, not with your hands.