On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:42:50 -0700 (PDT), vorange
wrote:

I thought I'd get a head start and plant my tomatos early this year.
Everything was going well. I planted a whole bunch of heirloom
tomatoes (yellow tomatoes, orange tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, tomatoes
I had cross polinated myself - a beefstake tomato with a tiny cherry
variety).

I planted them in trays, they sprouted, I transplanted them then to
the garden. Some damn bug chewed all the leaves up and killed them
all.

It annoys me no end that they destroyed my tomato plants.

I lost all my heirloom tomato seeds and the ones I had cross polinated
last year. I wanted to see what they would result in. But now its
all gone including my seeds.


I planted 38 heirlooms, 35 in garden and 3 currant types in pots on
the front deck.

Came out a couple of weeks ago, and the leaves were all gone on one of
the potted ones. Had 2 tiny tomatoes on it. Found a hornworm
trucking along in the pot. Could get in but couldn't get out. Weird
that of all the targets I had, that so far, only one sitting alone on
a deck was hit. HTH did it find that one?

BTW Just because the leaves are gone, doesn't mean it's dead. Don't
throw it out unless you're sure.

After 2 weeks, just noticed last night that the naked one has
sprouted new leaves on top starting to shade those 2 tiny tomatoes.

hth,
tom