Wish I could have a garden. I had one many years ago and just as everything started getting ripe enough to pick, everything would disappear. Same goes for my fruit trees. I love green plums so I have one tree that lived past 2 or 3 years. Last year, I went out one evening to see if any were ripe and there were lots. I just thought that I would go back out the next morning to get them. Well, imagine my surprise to find every plum on my tree gone. I think I have some other 2 legged “friends” who love plums, too.
put up a game camera and catch the culprit
...sounds more like a squirrel invasion. We get ‘em shaking citrus out of the trees; I’ve seen ‘em run off with grapefruit.
I have two small gardens and both are full of veggies. Tomatoes are loaded already. I had to pull up the leaf lettuce but will plant something in that spot.
I have a pear tree in the front lawn. Lots of fruit on it this year again. It was loaded last year, until we had a bad hail storm. The year before that, we had been eating some and giving away bags of pears.
One evening I went to throw something into the trash and a racoon had climbed up the tree, knocked off ever remaining pear and the deer were under the tree eating away.