Darn tomato eating critters!

How dare it eat your Sun Gold tomatos! Who told the pest how wonderful they are. It must be very hard up to be eatting green Stupice.

Found here if the lack of rain is around then the animals (deer) will hit up my tomatos and vines for a quick quench of thirst.

So how many did you loose last night?

ML

Is that you, Mary Lee? Gee! Haven't chatted with you since the "old" BYC!

I had a nice long reprieve in tomato eating issues, but they started back up again in the past couple of days. This time I think it's something larger because there's a bigger burrow in through my tomatoes and because I heard the critter moving about when I was out locking up the chickens late last night. Thankfully, they're very secure in their coop/run, but I always lock up the little chicken door just to be extra careful.

I lost a Stupice a couple of days ago and for the past couple of nights, the bigger critter nibbled on my first ripening Howard German. I went ahead and left the nibbled tomato on the vine hoping the critter will eat that rather than my other ripening tomatoes. But, I'm not eating anything green. I'm letting them ripen on the counter before eating. Perhaps they're not as good as they could be, but they're still waaaaay more yummy than the store 'maters!

Shelly, long time no see.

You must haunt Garden Web forums to have those tomato types.

Just getting my Sun Golds now to ripen. Planted up to 300 seedlings this year via Winter Sowing them.
Zone 6/7depends on the frosts.
ML

ml said:

Shelly, long time no see.

You must haunt Garden Web forums to have those tomato types.

Just getting my Sun Golds now to ripen. Planted up to 300 seedlings this year via Winter Sowing them.
Zone 6/7depends on the frosts.
ML

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Yeahhhh! Good to "see" ya! I love the Sun Golds. I planted those last year and LOVED them. They were soooo sweet and tasty. Living in So. Cal, I was harvesting Sun Golds until February this year! I didn't plant any this year, but I'll be sure to plant some again next year. Did you really plant 300 of them? Egads! Whatever will you do with that many?

I obtained my plants via the Fullerton Arboretum plant sale. I was busy and couldn't go myself, but friends were going and I provided them with a list of varieties I'd like to try and they picked up what they could. I simply took the available list and did some reading about what they had and made a list of what I was interested in. So far, I've not been disappointed, other than the German Pink from which I've yet to see a 'mater. The plant is huge and has a ton of flowers, so it's possible I'll be surprised one of these days.

The Stupice has been sooooo prolific!!! And, the fruit from it is tart and tasty! I'm still waiting to try the Howard German (I have two ripening on the counter) and the Anna Russian (the first one had blossom end rot, but the rest of the ripening ones look great). The Marianna's Peace has at least 5 tomatoes on it right now but they need to grow quite a bit larger before they're ready.

What else do you have other than the Sun Gold?

Did you really plant 300 of them? Egads! Whatever will you do with that many?
Well...... I have a friend with a large farm, he is Italian and loves tomatos, so 250 are Roma's. Those are feeding the deer, ground hogs and his goats is all I can figure.

I have going for sure in my garden with wire cages and fence to keep the deer and peeps/ducks out of them. My horse can reach over the fence and the favorite of the horses is Sun Gold.

German Red Strawberry is doing Great . Lots of Green ones on each plant, just cant wait for those.
Oxheart one.

Anna Russian is really doing well this year. A bit dry, should of mulched those. It is the most wispy plant have ever grown in tomatos. But so nice to eat those. Oxheart one.

Kelloggs Breakfast. This year good size plants but no where as nice as last years. First one ripe with blossom end rot.

Taxi one of my favorites. Great keeper too Determinate plant. This year does notl ook so hot. Cant even find a tomato on them.

Cherry "Orange" from a local nursery. Plants are booming some fruit and ripe. One plant got pruned by a deer but is comming back. Alot of wire fence was bought after that.

Hill Billy oh so love those a late variety here, do hope those plants make it.

Orange Strawberry, not sure if they got planted at the farm only, if not deer food sadly.

Rutgers my work horse is at the farm and more deer food.

Opakala a paste one and at the farm like 72 of those plants went out.

Yellow Morgage Lifter should have one or 2 of those at my place.

Yellow Brandywine , Black Cherry, Rinaldo, Celerbity are afwe others at the top of my head.

All but a few picked up at the nursery were winter sowed here in milk jugs in early March out side in the deep freeze.

Keeps me busy in the dead of winter growing these.

ML


Early plants went out last week in april, with milk jug covers.

Goodness, that's a lot of plants! But I should talk, I rarely have less than 17 varieties, with several of each!

Wow, ML! That's a LOT of 'maters!

I have the Anna Russian growing here and will agree with you that it is one wispy plant. I've never had a tomato like it that pretty much has no stem strength of it's own. Containing it is fun. I just picked my first one the other day and look forward to trying it!

Your horses have good taste! The Sungold is a delicious little cherry tomato! I grew those last year, but not this year.

I'd love to see a list of which varieties are your favorites!