A Tomato Plant Eater?

A Tomato Plant Eater?

Going For A Little Walk

Getting Away

Yea, I'm Looking At You (dear)!


We live in a little town and there is a very tiny woods behind our house.   We've lived here for 18 years and my husband plants a garden in the back.  It's rather sandy ground but we can grow tomatoes, summer squash, onions and cucumbers.  That's about all that grows.  I'm surprised we can grow onions because no other vegetable that grows beneath the ground grows well in the soil.

Last year my husband planted about 30 tomato plants as usual.  I always can tomatoes for use in chili and goulash.  The next morning he went to look at the garden and something had chewed or ate off all the plants.  We had never had a problem before all those years till last year.  It must have been deer or rabbits.  I guess they got really hungry!

This cute little guy was behind our house the other day.  He was all alone and my son took some pictures before he noticed him and ran away.  Maybe he was looking for some tomato plants to eat.  Guess what!  My husband planted them by our house this year.

The Creepy Crawling Tomatoes

My husband planted a couple of tomato plants in front of our house this spring.  He did this because something (a rabbit or rabbits I think) chewed off  a dozen plants the day after they were planted in our garden behind the house.  This tomato plant has crawled right through the railing and is on the porch and steps.  There are still some green tomatoes so I guess we'll let it there for a while, as long as the weather lasts.  

I only got about 20 quart jars of tomatoes canned this year.  Last year was the best year ever and I canned around 64 quart jars.  This year we had an abundance of rabbits in the neighborhood.  Even the neighbors commented how many there were.  Oh well, the little critters have to eat too.   It must have been a good year for rabbits, but not for our tomatoes in the garden.