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To: Marcella

Thank you, I’ll go there and get what I need.
My tomato plant is putting out a lot of flowers and tomatoes.
It has to be a bird, because lately, as the tomatoes have
begun to turn color, I’ve been finding part of the tomato
eaten, never all of it, just enough to ruin it.


247 posted on 09/05/2013 1:28:49 PM PDT by tillacum
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To: tillacum
“I’ve been finding part of the tomato eaten, never all of it, just enough to ruin it.”

It's a bird. Put netting over the tomatoes propped high enough over the tomatoes so bird can't reach in the get them, or put row cover over the tomatoes. I used row cover in earlier months when that bunch of tomatoes was ripening because the birds did do that. They only did it once, because I covered them after that.

Don't you hate it when the tomato has been ruined like that? I didn't have an opinion about birds and squirrels and insects until I started this gardening stuff and now I have a hate list.

252 posted on 09/05/2013 3:05:00 PM PDT by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.)
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