"Trish Brown" wrote in message
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David Hare-Scott wrote:

What specifically are you excluding? I have some toothy beastie eating
my ripe tomatos right now. I think it is rats because there are holes
with scrabble marks in the garden but cannot tell for sure. I have put
down ratsak but the chomping continues and no corpses appear. I don't
think it is birds as we never see any birds on the bushes and the attack
is always from the underside. What else could it be? Any ideas?

David

I've seen a blue-tongue lizard eating tomatoes! I kept wondering why my
tomatoes never got past the size of a cherry: they kept dropping and
'disappearing'. Then, one day I saw Mr Bluey climb up the fence (helped by
my excellent tomato trellis) and gobble up the little green tomatoes with
great gusto. The look on his face as he swallowed was something between
smugness and religious ecstasy. I left those bushes for him and grew a
batch of cherry tomatoes in hanging baskets for the family.

I know that look. We had a huge Bluey in our garden who used to look over
his shoulder as he schlepped out his tongue and took in a whole huge
strawberry at a time. We got a whole 6 strawberries the year he was around
but he was so gorgeous, we considered the strawbs were a fair trade for his
company.