How to stop my Hanging Baskets being stolen??

MAYFLOWERS

Have spent time over the last few weeks trying to tidy up my garden and planted four really nice Hanging Baskets to put up at the front. Am really gutted as sometime between yesterday and today one of them has been pinched - am now worried the other three will go too!!! I was just wondering if anyone had any tips for securing them and making them more difficult to pinch!

Any tips greatly appreciated

Thanks

Rikki

That terrible!

The only thing I can think or is bending the hook so the won't come off; or squashing the ring on the hanging basket so it won't pull off.

glenstan

we had our mums hanging baskets locked with a bycycle lock and they stole her tubs

needmoney

No suggestions Im afraid but really sorry that happend, shame on them.

ben_edwards2612

Put a bit of this stuff on the rim...

http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/sea/searchresults.jsp?_dyncharset=UTF-8&howMany=5&searchText=anti+intruder&x=0&y=0

at least they will regret stealing it then

Ghost

MAYFLOWERS wrote:

Have Am really gutted as sometime between yesterday and today one of them has been pinched

Blimey! I too would be gutted/cross if that happened to me. :eek:

How about purchasing some small padlocks - the type you use for luggage - and attach to the chains/links on the basket. At least it might slow down a prospective thief from stealing the others.

Sorry I can't be more helpful.

esalan

Hang them! (the offenders, as well as the baskets!):eek:

robowen

You could try drilling a hole through both sides of the hook and putting a bolt and locking nut through it after hanging the basket. It would stop them lifting the basket off the hook.

rob

robowen

ben_edwards2612 wrote:

Put a bit of this stuff on the rim...

http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/sea/searchresults.jsp?_dyncharset=UTF-8&howMany=5&searchText=anti+intruder&x=0&y=0

at least they will regret stealing it then

This is like grease paint...good stuff !

You can make it if you have a small tin of grease and a little black gloss paint.
I've used a tub of grease and some graphite powder before now...and that stuff was mint ! Graphite stains like you wont believe....when its in grease it does !

Skint1

Use an old wire coat hanger. They leave them alone when it's a bit harder,
Joe

shown73

I bend the hook a bit, and put a couple of ty-wraps around it. Not foolproof of course, but enough to discourage an opportunist, and I can always just snip the ty-wraps to take it down.