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  • From: Caren Kirk <quirky@videotron.ca>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] critters stealing tomatoes
  • Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:02:08 -0400

Definitely sounds like ground hogs to me. Happened to me about 3 years ago. They loved my tomatoes. We trapped the offenders and that was the end of that!

Caren Kirk
St Jerome, QC

On 9/12/2011 10:49 AM, Michele Stanton wrote:
This is slightly off topic, but some critter is stealing my tomatoes as they
turn color.

They are taken clean off the vine, no damage to the vines (caged). One large
nice tomato was half-eaten on the vine but the rest are just gone-no
leftovers on the ground or anything. This is a small garden, the losses
right now are 100%, so it's not a matter of sharing a few, etc.

I have a 2' high fence to keep rabbits out, but total fencing is not an
option. Adjacent green beans, cucumbers, hot peppers are untouched.

I have heard raccoons are noted for this; are opossums?



Has anyone had luck with liquid fence or other spray-on repellents for this
problem?



Michele in SW Ohio



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