Re: What's eating my tomatoes?
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  • Subject: Re: What's eating my tomatoes?
  • From: b* <b*@ix.netcom.com>
  • Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:01:17 -0600 (GMT-06:00)
Squirrels were the first thing to come to my mind too.
Perhaps your could try Bonide's Repels all granules. Stinking stuff made up of rotten eggs, blood, and garlic.

betsy


-----Original Message-----
>From: Daryl <dp2413@comcast.net>
>Sent: Aug 15, 2011 12:13 PM
>To: gardenchat@hort.net
>Subject: Re: [CHAT] What's eating my tomatoes?
>
>That's pretty typical of squirrels, but it's hard to tell without looking at 
>the tooth marks/bitten area. Got a camera?
>
>d
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: <Aplfgcnys@aol.com>
>To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
>Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 1:36 PM
>Subject: [CHAT] What's eating my tomatoes?
>
>
>> Because of uncooperative weather conditions and other situations my
>> vegetable garden got off to a very late start this year.  However, now 
>> that
>> my tomatoes have set fruit, something is eating the green tomatoes.
>> The vegetable garden is fenced.For several years I lost so much to
>> woodchucks, but we did sink fence wire a couple of feet below the
>> ground, and the fence is 10 feet high, so we are not having as much
>> trouble with the chucks.
>>
>> I have been able to harvest one batch of beans
>> and another is in full flower now.  For the past three years they had been
>> eaten to the ground at that point.  Those things haven't been eaten, but
>> something is taking the green tomatoes when they get about two or three
>> inches across.
>>
>> First, I would find a half-eaten one on the ground beside
>> the plant.  That was infuriating.  Now, as more fruits are developing, I 
>> am
>> finding that ones still on  the plant have bites taken out of them. 
>> Really
>> now!  Usually not too much of the fruit is eaten - just enough to spoil 
>> it.
>>
>> What is doing this?  I believe it is chipmunks, which are small enough to
>> get through the gap at the gate, and who have holes all over the place,
>> even in the garden.  We are totally overrun with them.
>>
>> I have tried using Park's "Shake Away" which is fox urine and said to
>> deter small pests, but it doesn't seem to work.  I think they just don't
>> know what a fox is.
>> Any ideas about how to control them?  Or what else could be getting
>> at my tomatoes?
>> Auralie
>>
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