Juli Lawrence – Rakish Gardening

August 15th, 2008

My neighbor says she’s seen the squirrel four times with green tomatoes. She’s not growing this year, so they have to be mine. But I just can’t decide if she’s trying to trick me into killing the squirrel, just plain cause trouble, or if she really has seen this.

I have no evidence. I haven’t noticed any tomatoes missing, and I certainly haven’t found any partially-eaten tomatoes in the yard. That was my first hint last year, but I thought it was one of my neighbor’s little granddaughters who likes to pick things. I thought she was picking her grandma’s fruits, taking a bite and then tossing them into my yard for fun. I’d never heard of squirrels eating tomatoes until I finally saw him munching on one, then throwing it away.

She also says she saw a rabbit with a huge tomato from my garden. Green one. I have an even harder time believing that one, because 1) how does a rabbit stand on its hind legs and grab a tomato (none are at ground level) 2) how does a rabbit carry a large green tomato in its mouth into my neighbor’s yard 3) I thought rabbits just nibbled around on greens

So I just don’t know about all of this. I’m so very tempted to buy some ears of dried corn and feed that squirrel with my super bungee cord squirrel feeder. It’s fun to watch, but the last time I did that, I ended up with an infestation of squirrels and they chewed up all my cable wires.

• Grow extra this year for the hungry!
• Squirrels eating the tomatoes!
• Squirrels are still behaving
• The squirrel returns to do his damage
• Update on my squirrel problem

Tags: pests, squirrels
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