Tomato eater....

[chicknmania]

What is it that comes in our garden at night and takes a bite out of every ripe tomato in the patch?

They dont eat the whole thing! Our game camera died or I would set it up. Whatever it is does not touch the cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, or melon. Raccoon? Fox? Rabbit? Possum? Groundhog? Deer? Coyote? WHAT IS IT?????? The same thing happened last year but before that we've never had this problem! I guess I could get out the live trap....and bait it with tomatoes....

 

[Fred's Hens]

Mice

 

[Kelsie2290]

All of the above? I get the impression that tomatoes are the chickens of the vegetable world, everything likes to eat them. The squirrels and chipmunks around here especially love to sample tomatoes.

 

[Thassa]

My chickens liked to taste test each and every tomato. This year I got smart and hung the plants.

 

[wildrooster1]

Grass hoppers eating my corn in the garden,any home remedys would be helpful.


WildRooster1

 

[Kelsie2290]

Grass hoppers eating my corn in the garden,any home remedys would be helpful.


WildRooster1

Chickens? Really about my best suggestion if the corn is big enough.
http://www.ghorganics.com/page12.html
There is a recipe for a garlic fish oil grasshopper repellent spray on there my neighbor swears by. Don't know how much it really works on grasshoppers, but I can tell you it works on me.
They have a bunch of other ideas on there also.
There are a couple of microbes/fungus they sell as grasshopper controls, they are usually on something like bran flakes that you spread around for the grasshoppers to eat and they eventually kill the grasshopper... of course by that time the grasshopper has already helped himself to your garden.

 

[Thassa]

I would bet the chickens would make quick work of the grasshoppers and would leave the corn alone as long as there are some to eat. Even still I would be there to supervise closely.

 

[chicknmania]

I just think it's weird that we have not had the problem before last year, but we certainly have had all those other animals around, always.
It's definitely not peck marks, it's teeth marks. I wonder if hot pepper oil would be absorbed by the tomatoes? Even if it was, that's not necessarily a
bad thing...

 

[sourland]

Mice

I had a problem with meadow voles in my garden and flower beds. They would climb the tomato vines and eat part of the tomatoes from the bottom. I have also had deer take bites - generally out of the sides of the tomatoes. Two and a half years ago we were adopted by a FERAL cat, and there is no longer a mole or deer mouse problem in my gardens or lofts. Scaredy cat truly has earned her keep.

 

[chicknmania]

We have some bobcat pee that we bought to try to deter the foxes. I don't use it very often, but I sprayed a little bit around the garden
two days ago, just to see. Today there were a bunch of unbitten ripe tomatoes out there. Hmmmmm....