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Gus wrote:
"Natural - Smoking Gun - Girl"
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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.

Vinegar socks? hmmm Haven't tried that one yet.

I happened to notice it on the back of a bottle of vinegar from Kroger last
year. It was listing all the uses for vinegar and one was to keep away
garden pests. It says to stake the perimeter with vinegar soaked rags about
every 7-10 days. It seems to work, at least for a while. I put some socks
on the tomato stakes. After it rains I put some vinegar on the socks, or
about once a week.