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Missing tomatoes
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07/07/20 07:01 PM
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throckmorton_hunter
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Have several green full grown tomatoes missing from my plants . have seen rats & squirrels around . No evidence of missing tomatoes in the garden
Any advice / thoughts ??
Thanks
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Re: Missing tomatoes
[Re: throckmorton_hunter]
#7893287
07/07/20 07:03 PM
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68rustbucket
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Have several green full grown tomatoes missing from my plants . have seen rats & squirrels around . No evidence of missing tomatoes in the garden
Any advice / thoughts ??
Thanks Put up a game camera, catch em in the act.
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Re: Missing tomatoes
[Re: 68rustbucket]
#7893298
07/07/20 07:10 PM
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TCM3
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Have several green full grown tomatoes missing from my plants . have seen rats & squirrels around . No evidence of missing tomatoes in the garden
Any advice / thoughts ??
Thanks Put up a game camera, catch em in the act.
Do not forget to entertain strangers, For by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels Hebrews 13:2
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Re: Missing tomatoes
[Re: throckmorton_hunter]
#7893311
07/07/20 07:19 PM
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dogcatcher
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And a blind so you can hunt the "ghosts".
Combat Infantryman, the ultimate hunter where the prey shoots back. _____________"Illegitimus non carborundum est"_______________
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Re: Missing tomatoes
[Re: throckmorton_hunter]
#7893321
07/07/20 07:24 PM
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Flatcreek
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Kids/Grandkids would be my guess if totally gone.
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Re: Missing tomatoes
[Re: throckmorton_hunter]
#7893344
07/07/20 07:50 PM
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PMK
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squirrels are cute but they will grab tomatoes (or peaches) and take somewhere else. My wife made me leave them alone until she saw one with a tomato or a peach, then it was they aren't that cute, handle it...
"everyone that lives dies but not everyone who dies lived..."
~PMK~
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Re: Missing tomatoes
[Re: PMK]
#7893360
07/07/20 08:02 PM
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fredeboy
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squirrels are cute but they will grab tomatoes (or peaches) and take somewhere else. My wife made me leave them alone until she saw one with a tomato or a peach, then it was they aren't that cute, handle it...
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Re: Missing tomatoes
[Re: throckmorton_hunter]
#7893367
07/07/20 08:05 PM
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hook_n_line
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I was gone 4 days and had the same thing happen. Neighbor came by and thanked me for the great tomatoes.
Sometimes it's hard being me! But somebody has to do it.
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Re: Missing tomatoes
[Re: throckmorton_hunter]
#7893372
07/07/20 08:10 PM
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Squirrels are cute, but cuteness is in the eye of the beholder. Way back when, this place had loose goats. They were cute till they ate all my deer corn. I was gonna shoot em, but the wife said they were sooooo cute. But...one week she planted hundreds of dollars of Crepe Myrtles, and when we came back from a short trip the goats had eaten them to the ground. I asked how cute they were looking these days. She said “shut up and kill em all”. Ahhh, the smell of burnt IMR 4064....
Not my monkeys, not my circus...
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Re: Missing tomatoes
[Re: hook_n_line]
#7893390
07/07/20 08:24 PM
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TCM3
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I was gone 4 days and had the same thing happen. Neighbor came by and thanked me for the great tomatoes. The Lord helps those who help themselves
Do not forget to entertain strangers, For by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels Hebrews 13:2
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Re: Missing tomatoes
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#7893401
07/07/20 08:29 PM
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bill oxner
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squirrels are cute but they will grab tomatoes (or peaches) and take somewhere else. My wife made me leave them alone until she saw one with a tomato or a peach, then it was they aren't that cute, handle it... Saw one climbing a tree with a tomato in its mouth. Looked like trained seal with a ball on its nose.
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: Missing tomatoes
[Re: throckmorton_hunter]
#7895488
07/09/20 04:30 PM
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skinnerback
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Squirrels and coons were hell on mine.
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Re: Missing tomatoes
[Re: throckmorton_hunter]
#7895499
07/09/20 04:46 PM
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aerangis
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Have several green full grown tomatoes missing from my plants . have seen rats & squirrels around . No evidence of missing tomatoes in the garden
Any advice / thoughts ??
Thanks A tomato in a live or leghold trap might put an end to it. My old man has box tortoises that get in his garden but he's cool with it.
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Re: Missing tomatoes
[Re: throckmorton_hunter]
#7895535
07/09/20 05:09 PM
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bill oxner
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Something got after my cucumbers. Suspect a squirrel.
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: Missing tomatoes
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#7895600
07/09/20 05:52 PM
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aerangis
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Something got after my cucumbers. Suspect a squirrel. Stop leaving your ripe cucumbers laying around they won't disappear. If I was there Id be in your cucumbers too.... with some soy sauce.
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Re: Missing tomatoes
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#7896141
07/10/20 02:13 AM
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RGLass
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Dogs will eat too. We couldn’t figure it out until we caught our Lab eating them.
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Re: Missing tomatoes
[Re: RGLass]
#7896179
07/10/20 03:18 AM
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SnakeWrangler
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Dogs will eat too. We couldn’t figure it out until we caught our Lab eating them. Labs will eat anything....
I believe in science and I’m an insufferable [censored] Actually, BBC is pretty damn good "You Cannot Simultaneously Be Politically Correct And Intellectually Honest!"
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Re: Missing tomatoes
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#7896406
07/10/20 02:41 PM
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Bullfrog
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My wife hates it but them little bastages in the back yard are exactly why I planted mine in my front flower bed! They’re coming along nicely!
Man if I knew what Oxner knows I could throw away what I know
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Re: Missing tomatoes
[Re: Bullfrog]
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07/10/20 06:47 PM
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68rustbucket
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My wife hates it but them little bastages in the back yard are exactly why I planted mine in my front flower bed! They’re coming along nicely! Dogs or squirrels?
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Re: Missing tomatoes
[Re: 68rustbucket]
#7897168
07/11/20 05:48 AM
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Bullfrog
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My wife hates it but them little bastages in the back yard are exactly why I planted mine in my front flower bed! They’re coming along nicely! Dogs or squirrels? Squirrels. The land behind me is city owned and has water treatment stuff. They come down my fence line that has massive red tip whatever’s, drop in, Jack the tomato’s and run out. Perfect escape plan for them. Every now and then, I poke the pellet gun out of the doggie door like Home Alone and remind them what’s up. They have left my plants alone in the front yard so far
Man if I knew what Oxner knows I could throw away what I know
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Re: Missing tomatoes
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#7898079
07/12/20 01:39 PM
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RGLass
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Our Lab was stealing ours . Caught her in the act.
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Re: Missing tomatoes
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#7898104
07/12/20 02:12 PM
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bill oxner
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Our Lab was stealing ours . Caught her in the act. Muffin never passes on the tomato when I give her a taste of my BLT.
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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