This is the reason why I haven't been harvesting much lately. You see that? Take a good look. Bigify the photo if you have to. Look closely, yup, those are teeth marks. Some #$%@! critter has been going to town on the garden. This WAS a beautiful heirloom tomato that I was waiting to pick because I wanted it to grow bigger. But, the other day, I saw it got completely chewed up. What the @#$%!?? Not only that, critters also ate 2 eggplants. Yes, 2!! I'm so mad. It took so long for those plants to set fruit, and now, I'm down to 1 eggplant. We are putting up some netting around it so we can try to stop the carnage. Argh!!
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Aw, meems, I'm so sorry about the rude critters in your garden! I get really upset about cucumber beetles that eat million holes in my leaves (they made it impossible for my second and third planting of beans to survive this summer) and other diseases that plague the vegetables, but I haven't had anything that actually ate any of my fruits. (knock on wood!) I would really be mad and offended to see half-eaten tomatoes like that, too. Sometimes netting and fences are the way to go. I hope you can successfully protect your remaining eggplant.
ReplyDeleteI hear you. This morning I stopped by this tomato wondering if it was ready to pick, I decided to give it one more day of ripening on the vine. By mid afternoon someone had taken a big bite off it and left the rest still hanging.
ReplyDeleteYou have my condolences. Years ago I lost all of my very few tomoatoes to our local ground hog. Now I grow everything in containers and I pick my tomatoes to ripen them indoors. The taste is still good, perhaps not as good as if I left them on the vine, but still far better than anything I can buy at the grocery store. Good luck with your critters. I hope you can screen your plant off for safe keeping.
ReplyDeleteUgh, selfish creatures! That happened to my roma tomatoes that usually are abundant and quite happy reproducing in my garden. . .
ReplyDeleteI feel for you - this was the first year I've had to deal with that too, my heirloom tomatoes were the victims!
ReplyDeleteAwe that is annoying. I hope the screening keeps them out.
ReplyDeleteI went out the door to pick a few of the King Figs that I had seen the evening before.
ReplyDeleteThey were shredded to bits........So, I feel your pain.
Will be out the rest of the week for my big horse show. Will have a lot of catching up to do next week!
Aww that is a bummer and enough to make a gardener mad. My dogs were eating my strawberries so there is now a netting fence, its ugly but I get strawberries now. Could it be squirrels that are thirsty? I read in OG years ago to put shallow water bowls around the garden for them because they will eat your produce if they don't have fresh water.
ReplyDeleteSo sorry! I'm battling with grasshoppers eating my veggies!
ReplyDeleteYikes! Sorry. We had something eat a few of ours too-I wonder what it is. I said either a rabbit or a rat. Do you know what got yours?
ReplyDeleteI know yur pain! My critter has stolen all but a handful of the heirlooms. It's war...
ReplyDeleteOh, it happened to me (again). I was waiting on one of my very few but nice sized brandywines to get just a little redder. Next morning there were teeth marks in it. I feel your pain.
ReplyDeleteOh how sad. I had that happen to me a couple years ago. For me it was the chipmunks that kept eating everything. The netting worked wonders for them. I hope it works for you.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what it is? At my place, it's the raccoons that get a taste of everything before I do.
ReplyDeleteI used to assume it was squirrels that were taking bites out of my tomatoes just as they were ripe enough to pick. Then, I saw a robin near a ripe tomato on a tomato cage. Now, I'm thinking it's birds, but it could be both. They don't pick mine, though. They just leave them on the vine. They even eat the patio tomatoes in a pot on my deck. Grr! I've taken to picking them just before they are fully ripe.
ReplyDeleteI hope you get the next ones.