In article ,
Ray Drouillard wrote:

"Katra" wrote in message
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In article t,
"Craig" wrote:

Hello All,

I was a little disturbed to find half my tomato plants leaves eaten
off this
morning. Seems some sort of critter picked all the leaves clean off.
He ate
all the tomato leaves off the plants that we not in cages, I had
intended to
stake them. My neighbor had an opossum in their yard last year.
Maybe it was
another opossum? I've never had anything disturb my tomato plants
before. It
looks like he might have tried a pepper plant but didn't like them.
Garlic,
onions, radishes, green beans, and lettuce all we untouched. Any
suggestion
on how to save my remaining and replacement tomatoes?



We've got opossums around here, and I've never seen any clue
that they are the culprits when a tomate plant goes missing.

Don't possums go after grubs ? I could see then digging up a
plant if they thought there was something good to eat
underneath.

I have cutworm problems, and this year I cut tin cans in half (4
inches dia by about 4 inches high, and put these around my plants. A
few days later I go into the garden and count the plants and one's
missing, can and all. That ain't no cutworm. Looking around the area
I found a woodland box turtle, but no sign of the tincan.





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