"bungadora" expounded:

This reminds me of some advice I once heard on one of those gardening
tv shows for curbside planters. They placed a steel bar vertically
through a hole in the bottom of the planter, and buried it into the
soil underneath. I seem to recall there were steel bars or cross bars
on either end as well.

Yes, there was an article in the Boston Globe a few years back about
plant theft and advice on how to secure pots, and even large plants
themselves, with bars and chains. Sad.

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Ann, gardening in Zone 6a
South of Boston, Massachusetts
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