"Natural - Smoking Gun - Girl" wrote in
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Gus wrote:
It's only the size of small plum but still-- first tomato! It turned
red mostly the last couple days suddenly and thought I better pick it
before the squirrel.

So far,

humans 1
squirrels 0

I pick mine when they just start to turn blushy looking. One year I
didn't get one good tomato due to varmints getting them, so now I don't
wait and put them in my kitchen window to ripen. I've got a few small
ones, too, about the size of large plums. I'm looking forward to the
larger tomatoes when they finally put on fruit!

--
Natural Girl

I got quite a few from only about 4-5 plants last year, but the year before
the varmints took them all! It was very disappointing. I got so mad I
ended up pulling up the tomato plants that year... I am trying the vinegar
soaked socks on the wood stakes strategy again. It seemed to work pretty
well last year.