Doesn’t answer the question. HOW do you defend, 24/7, your garden with limited personnel to stand as sentry.?
Prepare for carnage. It will be that way everywhere.
You either know your nieghbors and have a pact to protect eachother’s property, or you live in a secluded area, or you take what you can and bug out. In a breakdown, being on your own in a suburban or urban setting will see anything you have of value taken by the mob or by the authorities.
And probably for a long while.
You have a platoon of armed and trained individuals.
The old fashioned method of a couple of dogs would go a long way...watch or guard would be fine.
You can try stretching some barbed wire around it and make it as difficult as possible to get in.
Gaucho 4 barbed is about as nasty as you can get.
After handling it you wont thank me.
same way you would against rabbits ect.
trip lines with bells, stock up on those at Christmas time, old cans strung on a line, put around your garden anything that can make alot of noise, bubblewrap if it’s all you’ve got. Any one of those things will alert the dog (or cat) if you’ve got one.
If you live in an urban or suburban area, it will be next to impossible. You’ll need multiple sentries to stand watch 24/7. Either work out a plan with your neighbors for mutual sentry and food- and water-gathering tasks or have a remote retreat location.
Frankly, if we get to this point, there is very little chance that you and your neighbors, even if heavily armed and trained, will be victorious against the masses from from the urban and suburban areas that go out seeking food.
You really need to have a remote location, preferably in a small farming-type town of like-minded people.
As the experts say, why wait? Getting out of dodge may be a problem in itself. Move there now and be all set up for WTSHTF.