Every season I’m careful to stake or cage the tomatoes. I follow along and adjust the support as needed AND THEN the plants get wise to me AND THEN they explode into wild abandoned growth, JUST TO GOAD ME, totally beyond the rubicon of controlled growth.
Mine are sneaking over into the bean plants but overall I am happy with how well they have behaved. have you tried gentle parenting with them?
I also HAVE to stake up my in ground tomatoes because the devils in feathery suits enjoy snacking on toxic tomato leaves despite having woods to forage in
My run ins with wildlife was with ground hogs, opossum, skunks, squirrels, rabbits, stray cats and an occasional deer (which out of the blue raced across the property and passed me like a scalded dog). Of all of those none were ever vicious toward me WITH the exception of the cat. The skunk, opossum, and ground hog were the calmest of everything we ever live trapped. In fact, before the chickens I released the opossum and skunk back on the property.
Define gentle.
Positive encouragement, treats when they do good, no yelling, etc. I like to treat my tomato plants to ice cream every Saturday if they have done good
Oh, go on with you. You’re pulling my leg…….right, you are pulling my leg.
We use the squirrelnator and it's smaller cousin. You can catch MORE than one with one tray of feed bate.Would something like this work to trap chipmunks? We bought this to trap a baby squirrel but caught a rat instead. Worked following instructions so well to catch rats we left it out all year & got dozens of rats & DH drowned them in a deep trash barrel each time.
Maybe…
