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Somebody cut off 11 blooms on the 2 tomato plants in my garden box. Left for a bit in the late afternoon the other day came back they had been cut off. My viva Italia plum tomato plant has about 6 tiny tomatoes and a bunch more blooms thankfully they didn't see them eh?
Could it have been a squirrel or rabbit? I just can't fathom how someone could be so intrusive and mean. I hope that it doesn't happen again.
I would have to wonder the same thing: our darling rabbit family decided to investigate our pepper plants a few days ago. I went out yesterday morning and to my disappointment and shock my 2 baby bells were no longer on the plants. There is no doubt in my mind they did the damage.
I went through that in the greenhouse a few years ago....lost sweet 100s to rodents. I thought someone in the house kept getting the darn things before I could. Nope.....I had a bed of bunching onion seedlings coming up in the 4 ft tomato bed as well. In the winter, something literally grazed them down....to death. Turned out, we'd brought the bunnies into the greenhouse for the winter, which attracted rodents. We had to start putting out bait. We went through a lot of bait...!!!
I am so excited: I checked this morning and we have about 3 tomatoes that will be ready to pick next week. They are just changing color and I see lots of little squash. There were too many bees to get a good look. It appears they think the squash belongs to them alone. I am not complaining, that is for sure, but I am anxious to get a better look. I hate it when the squash get so big they lose their flavor.
Could it have been a squirrel or rabbit? I just can't fathom how someone could be so intrusive and mean. I hope that it doesn't happen again.
I don't believe so first a rabbit couldn't get up in the elevated bed it is about 3.5-4' off the ground I saw no tracks of anything in the soil either. I hand rake it daily leaving a very distinctive design on the top soil it wasn't disturbed and all the stem are clean cuts straight across in the same angles. There is a woman that lives here I've told no to on things and others say they wouldn't put it past her.
What nerve some people have, seriously! Yep, long ago....I went a little ballistic on an "elderly" woman who thought it perfectly acceptable to walk down the street, through my gate, and start putting my berries in her picking bucket. Unreal.
What nerve some people have, seriously! Yep, long ago....I went a little ballistic on an "elderly" woman who thought it perfectly acceptable to walk down the street, through my gate, and start putting my berries in her picking bucket. Unreal.
OMG that did take some nerve my neighbor down the road out in the country use to let me go down & pick grapes, pears and apples. Somebody saw me & they started trying to pick there only the neighbor saw them & ran them off. The house sat empty after his in-laws died but he kept up the mowing & maintenance on the place. I grew up out there & use to go down to all my neighbors that is just the way it is in our area. I'd can up stuff then take canned fruit, applesauce & pie filling to the elderly ones that no longer canned.
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Left for a bit in the late afternoon the other day came back they had been cut off. My viva Italia plum tomato plant has about 6 tiny tomatoes and a bunch more blooms thankfully they didn't see them eh?
my neighbor down the road out in the country use to let me go down & pick grapes, pears and apples. Somebody saw me & they started trying to pick there only the neighbor saw them & ran them off. The house sat empty after his in-laws died but he kept up the mowing & maintenance on the place. I grew up out there & use to go down to all my neighbors that is just the way it is in our area. I'd can up stuff then take canned fruit, applesauce & pie filling to the elderly ones that no longer canned. 
