Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Brutal decapitations on Frobisher Rd
Does anyone have any ideas on how to stop the person who is destroying the sunflowers growing in the planter by NHP on Frobisher Rd? Over 40 sunflowers have been growing really well and are just now starting to flower but each time a flower opens within a day someone comes and rips it off. One by one, a flower opens and that night it gets pulled off and dumped on the ground near by. Five gone over the last week and not one flower is left to standing.
These are the next two flowers opening today so i expect they'll be gone in the next day or two:
Its going to do my head in watching the rest of them be killed one by one. Grrr.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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A machine gun and trip wire should do the trick.
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Permalink Reply by Abi on
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Slugs. I fought with them all of last summer and have not bothered planting any more sunflowers this year. It's window boxes all the way for me now, I'm afraid ;(
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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Machine gun toting slugs! Arrgghh.
Ant, do you have a spare webcam/laptop?
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Permalink Reply by Justin Guest on
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I would be curious to know what you are thinking too- mail me if you can. I have lost a few on Pemberton too, from the crop Liz posted about the other day.... It is a crying shame when you lose even one! Long Live the Sunflower Vigilantes.
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Permalink Reply by ant on
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Matt had a location where we could put a webcam watching the flowers so we did that for a while. I found some software on the internet that has motion detection so it only recorded when it detected something in the flower bed. Car lights going past at night set it off so we had lots of video of passing cars. Don't know if it was coincidence, this post on HoL, or the webcam somehow, but the attacks stopped right away. Then Matt went on holiday so we had to take it down and the biggest flower went that night, but other than that, fingers crossed, no other attacks since.
Happy to lend you the equipment if you have a window near your sunflowers. I don't know how useful it really is, seemed a bit of fun, better than doing nothing, but the webcam doesn't get a great image at night, maybe enough to tell if its a squirrel or human messing with the plants.
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Permalink Reply by Julia on
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I'm wondering if it could be squirrels - they decimated mine last year and I'm expecting the same this year as soon as they start flowering...
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I'm pretty sure its a person. The flowers are ripped off by the stalks being twisted around and around to try to break it, in the third photo you can see it was quite a thick stalk and they couldn't manage to break it so just twisted and twisted it and then left it hanging and the flower looks untouched, the one in the second photo it had been twisted around just under the flower but that also didn't break off so the whole stalk was pulled out of the ground. Would a squirrel do that?
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Harringay squirrels carry heat. I wouldn't anything past them. Seriously if it was squirrel damage they would eat the flower heads.
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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on
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It's the tall poppies syndrome. Lucius Tarquinius Superbus teaching his son another lesson.
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Permalink Reply by Paul W Kelly on
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Obviously another disgruntled Olympian. If no one else can get gold You can't either. :P
Suggest someone get a wireless infrared camera put it up at a second floor window. and record what goes on with a PC.
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