It never fails, the one tomato I’ve been watching for weeks, waiting until the perfect time to pluck it from its vines, and naturally, I go out to pick the lovingly grown, mouth watering orb, to find it half eaten, and conspicuously placed next to the garden, as if to taunt me.
In years past, I’ve planted enough tomatoes for me and the squirrels to each get our share. The low hanging tomatoes are theirs, the rest are mine. But, it never really works out that way, they always take the one I really want.
So, before I allow myself to be defeated, once again, by a rodent, today I will solve the problem. I’m going to buy a couple of rolls of polypropylene mesh, and cut a section for each tomato plant. Since the plants are all caged, and the mesh comes in a roll, it should just curve itself around the tomato cages and provide adequate protection. If not, I have zip ties.
I’m also pondering providing some food more appetizing to the squirrels, but I’m not sure what that would be, and I don’t want to attract other beasts to my yard.
And, to whomever took a bite out of my ripe blackberry, I’m coming after you next.
