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I don't have a garden so I am growing some tomatoes in pots. It's been a lot of extra work, but the very first crop of cherry tomatoes only needs about 2 more days before I get a generous handful of ripe, home grown tomatoes.
So, I am outside this morning watering flowers and I look over and Pensive has her head buried in the tomato bush.
She has picked and eaten every ripe tomato. She didn't miss a single one.
Darn dog.
She really loves tomatoes. So Does Wyatt McRiot and I expect him to learn from watching her.
I had an elderly border collie that LOVED fresh produce. He'd pick tomatoes off the bushes and eat zucchinis left on counters. Took me months to figure out what was happening!
My pomeranian who was a picky eater once swiped the only head of broccoli I managed to grow. That was the only time in his life he ever ate something green.
None of you are reporting any problems, and that is GREAT. But to be on the safe side, I'm going to point out that unripe tomatoes and the plants themselves are not good for dogs. So keep an eye out if your dog seems to be starting to harvest the tomatoes too soon, or ingesting the plant itself.
I went out there today and put an X-pen around the cherry tomato plant and around the tomato with the slicer size tomatoes. The slicers won't be ready for another 6 weeks, but I've fenced that plant, anyway.
Pensive is tall with a long neck, so she will be able to reach the outer branches of the tomato, but that will leave the ones on the interior for me.
My squash has been weird, setting a lot of squash that never gets big. So now I am wondering if Pensive has been harvesting the half grown squash and just leaving the little ones for me to see and to wonder why they never get any bigger.
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....unripe tomatoes and the plants themselves are not good for dogs.....
So far, she has been very selective, picking only the nice ripe tomatoes and leaving the half ripe ones and the green ones on the vine to ripen for later.
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