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Something is eating my tomatoes - argh!!

submitted by AugustineOfHippo2 to Gardening 2.8 yearsAug 30, 2022 17:04:33 ago (+13/-1)     (files.catbox.moe)

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I hate to use insecticide, but sometimes it's gotta be done.
Might try some Diatomaceous Earth.
Any suggestions?


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[ - ] inaminit 9 points 2.8 yearsAug 30, 2022 17:51:49 ago (+9/-0)

Not insects... You have a critter. Rat, Squirrel, Rabbit, some type of rodent. Possible even a Deer.

[ - ] Wahaha 4 points 2.8 yearsAug 30, 2022 18:22:43 ago (+4/-0)

If you care to know the culprit, get a night cam that starts recording when it detects motion. Once you know your enemy, finding a counter will be easier.

[ - ] scoopadoop 3 points 2.8 yearsAug 30, 2022 18:22:39 ago (+3/-0)

Encase your growing tomatoes in plastic takeout containers or other plastic produce containers from the store.

[ - ] SumerBreeze 1 point 2.8 yearsAug 30, 2022 19:50:58 ago (+1/-0)

This, but instead of plastic containers, little porous strainer-like bags or cheese cloth that block insects or scare squirrels/birds away.

Make sure the material isn’t touching the fruit.

[ - ] Crackinjokes 2 points 2.8 yearsAug 30, 2022 21:22:12 ago (+2/-0)

That's a rodent of some kind.

[ - ] bobdole9 2 points 2.8 yearsAug 30, 2022 19:56:37 ago (+2/-0)

If it was on the ground, could be rabbit. If it was on the plant, probably a deer.

Deers are assholes that eat nice plants, flowers, bushes. Shame its not likely hunting season.

[ - ] AugustineOfHippo2 [op] 1 point 2.8 yearsAug 31, 2022 10:11:14 ago (+1/-0)

Its always hunting season 😉

[ - ] Seymore_potatohead 2 points 2.8 yearsAug 30, 2022 17:47:58 ago (+2/-0)

Look for rat poop at the base of the plant. I could not stop rats from eating mine.

[ - ] Gowithit 1 point 2.8 yearsAug 30, 2022 17:53:09 ago (+1/-0)

Hmm just throwing out an idea. Do those frequency things work? You know like the commercials used to advertise a little plug in thing to drive mice away? If it does maybe grab an old cell phone and find a video of it on YouTube and let it play outside through the night.

I might try it. There's a possum lurking around at night maybe there's a possum frequency.

[ - ] xachariah 3 points 2.8 yearsAug 30, 2022 20:31:35 ago (+3/-0)

Not really. Tried some and it didn't really work.

There's a chance that the frequency stakes might work on burrowing animals, so they don't make their home in the immediate radius, but they don't actually keep them away or anything. Or they could have just not wanted to burrow there in the first place.

Regardless, I would not recommend.

[ - ] Gowithit 0 points 2.8 yearsAug 30, 2022 20:40:30 ago (+0/-0)

Bummer.

[ - ] deleted 1 point 2.8 yearsAug 30, 2022 22:08:12 ago (+1/-0)

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[ - ] Gowithit 0 points 2.8 yearsAug 30, 2022 22:50:54 ago (+0/-0)

Haha - " one bite, everybody knows the rules"

[ - ] FUBAR 2 points 2.8 yearsAug 30, 2022 17:22:03 ago (+2/-0)

Groundhogs.

[ - ] lord_nougat 1 point 2.8 yearsAug 31, 2022 02:33:10 ago (+1/-0)

Seahogs!

[ - ] GOATMAN 1 point 2.8 yearsAug 31, 2022 07:28:27 ago (+1/-0)

Airhogs!

[ - ] Gowithit 2 points 2.8 yearsAug 30, 2022 17:18:41 ago (+2/-0)

Yeah that's something with a little mouth. You have little tiny meth heads running around your neighborhood?

What is it mint I think that they say rodents don't like?

[ - ] AugustineOfHippo2 [op] 3 points 2.8 yearsAug 30, 2022 17:22:10 ago (+3/-0)

meth-heads like tomatoes? I know heroin junkies love milk. we had our house robbed when i was a kid, all our christmas presents were stolen AND the egg nog and milk. cops said it was definitely a heroin junkie cause of the missing milk product.

[ - ] lord_nougat 1 point 2.8 yearsAug 30, 2022 17:24:18 ago (+1/-0)*

I think they're always thirsty. They always ordered pepsis at my club, back in the day. Thy'd just sit there like a zombie, drinking pepsi. It did not appear to give them any discernible pep.

[ - ] Ozark 2 points 2.8 yearsAug 30, 2022 18:45:44 ago (+2/-0)

The hep-c cancels out the pepsi.

[ - ] lord_nougat 0 points 2.8 yearsAug 30, 2022 18:48:51 ago (+0/-0)

Lol!

Good one!

[ - ] Gowithit 1 point 2.8 yearsAug 30, 2022 17:33:20 ago (+1/-0)

That's funny. " He needs some milk".

But if it's what the fubar guy above said and it's groundhogs you have my sympathies.

My sister has them running rampant through her yard so she started doing the bin growing.

[ - ] Wolfspider 1 point 2.8 yearsAug 31, 2022 03:18:57 ago (+1/-0)

Time for an early morning stake-out and some rabbit stew for dinner.

[ - ] boekanier 1 point 2.8 yearsAug 31, 2022 01:01:58 ago (+1/-0)

yes, do it in an environmentally responsible way. You could keep watch next to your tomatoes, sooner or later the culprit will show up and then you strike!

[ - ] scoopadoop 1 point 2.8 yearsAug 30, 2022 18:22:02 ago (+1/-0)

Encase your growing tomatoes in plastic takeout containers or other plastic produce containers from the store.

[ - ] xmasskull 0 points 2.8 yearsAug 30, 2022 19:07:02 ago (+0/-0)

Savin dust. You can't beat it.

[ - ] lord_nougat 0 points 2.8 yearsAug 30, 2022 17:11:07 ago (+0/-0)

It wasn't me, I swear!

Rodent of some kind, perhaps?

[ - ] AugustineOfHippo2 [op] 1 point 2.8 yearsAug 30, 2022 17:19:01 ago (+1/-0)

If it was you, I wouldn't mind, Happy to feed a friend.

I'm thinking it's likely to be the slugs or some flying buggy creature. been seeing lots of grasshoppers around lately, but not sure if they would go after tomatoes.

[ - ] TardWhisperer 1 point 2.8 yearsAug 30, 2022 17:27:33 ago (+1/-0)

I've got many grasshoppers around. They may be eating the leaves on my pepper plants but they haven't touched the tomatoes. Looks like it was eaten by a small mammal or rodent.

[ - ] lord_nougat 0 points 2.8 yearsAug 30, 2022 17:22:25 ago (+0/-0)

D'aww, shucks!

But yeah, those fuckers murdalize the plant at any rate. We had katydids, but I think the chickens finally got 'em. I don't think grasshoppers or katydids can actually bite through the skin of the fruit like that. Who knows, though! Everything is all fucky in CLOWN WORLD!

[ - ] carnold03 -1 points 2.8 yearsAug 30, 2022 18:52:45 ago (+0/-1)

Put out rodent poison and traps.