[Baldy]

I think I'm right in thinking that someone here (JayG?) grows veg in their front garden. Anyone else do it?

I have been chitting some sweetcorn on the kitchen table and have only just looked at the packet... it cost me 10p in the end of season sale at the local garden centre - but its a supersweet so could compromise the variety I've got growing on in the GH ready for the plot. So, I can fit a block of 9 in the back garden- leaves me with about 20 (if they all keep growing) to put in the front.
Don't think I'll do sweetcorn on a regular basis at the front - but I'm now considering putting some of the 100+ tomatoes in growbags on the (sides of the) driveway. (Wonder if Mrs Balders will notice) 

Pip pip,
Balders

[Fairy Plotmother]

I have done in the distant past!

[pigguns]

Yes, some Broad beans and spuds but I can't grown anything nickable around here, although been considering rhubarb    I know someone just up the road in cul-de-sac upstairs flat grows runners and general veg out the front but he doesn't get the foot traffic past like we do.

[Beetroot Queen]

We have rhubarb growing, we did spuds before then but caught some woman furtling in the ground helping herself.

I have sloes too but they are safe round here as no-one knows what they are.
May try some hanging basket toms by the door

[Baldy]

BQ - thanks for reminding me, I 'acquired' some sloe rootlings that are now budding - I suppose I could put a few in the front, some people might know what they are but I could live with a bit of loss... Would fill a space too...

Pip pip,
Balders

[Beetroot Queen]

People only pinch stuff around here if it needs hardly any prep or is ready to eat from the bush/ tree.

Next door has a little apple tree out the front, last year the kids stripped it and as they picked the last apple one said to the other. " shall we knock and ask if we can have them" they did and our neighbour said " well its a bit late to ask now"

[Baldy]

My children caught a 70+ woman taking bluebells from my front garden - they were only 10 or 11 so not quite sure how to handle the situation. They walked down the drive and stared at her and got shouted at for being rude.
Proper job Devonish 

Pip pip,
Balders

[Madame Cholet]

I grow lettuce and tumbling toms with the fuchsias in the tubs out the front

[LotuSeed]

May be worth it to plant some strategically placed nettles around lol. If you have yellow or green or orange tomato varieties that could work as people might leave them alone thinking they aren't ripe😜. There's a house in our neighborhood that grows stuff in their front garden and the devil strip as well, but I'm not sure how much stuff gets nicked. Another neighbor up the street has apricot trees growing in his front garden and he said it wasn't uncommon to find strangers happily filling carrier bags with his fruit. I think a lot depends on how much foot traffic you get AND whether or not you have a homeowners association with planting/landscaping restrictions. 😯. I'm growing cucumbers and broad beans in planters in my front entryway that should look like decorative edible landscaping, but I have a fenced in yard... and a dog lol. Can't hurt to try, I'd go for it.

[Auntiemogs]

I only have full sun in the morning (NE facing), but have rhubarb, gooseberries, crab apple and morello cherry. 

[jaydig]

Lotuseed, I'm going to show my ignorance now, but what is a 'devil strip'?

[Madame Cholet]

Lotuseed, I'm going to show my ignorance now, but what is a 'devil strip'?

me too

[LotuSeed]

Lotuseed, I'm going to show my ignorance now, but what is a 'devil strip'?

It's the strip of land between the sidewalk and the street. Usually it's grass and sometimes trees that are maintained by the city or county. Not sure exactly which. It think it's technically public land (like the sidewalks) but some people landscape into it as if it were private.  Even in the States I think it's a regionalism and is known by several different names. 

[Madame Cholet]

we would call it a grass verge i believe I've planted mine with spring bulbs

[ptarmigan]

On my way to work, busy road with lots of pedestrians, there's a front garden veg patch.  Lettuces, sprouts, leeks ... It's productive, looks quite workmanlike and they've been doing it for years so I assume no significant losses from thievery!

Though, as above, I'm not sure all the passers by would recognise a veg not in the supermarket.