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westfork woman
True Blue Farmgirl
554 Posts
Kennie Lyn
Emmett
Idaho
USA
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 Posted - May 25 2012 : 08:49:08 AM
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Something has completely eaten the leaves from one of my tomatoes, and nibbled on the others, leaving the stems. The garden is completely surrounded by corral panels, so isn't deer. They are planted in a big waterering trough, so I don't think it is rabbits, and nothing has bothered the lettuce. Too early for tomato horn worms, what could it be?
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Ninibini
True Blue Farmgirl
7577 Posts
Nini
Pennsylvania
USA
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Posted - May 25 2012 : 09:41:38 AM
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Awww... That's awful, Kennie Lyn!!! Are you sure it's not a really bad case of aphids? They absolutely DESTROYED my tomatoes... I had no idea what was happening, and then one morning I saw them... They were SO gross, like a HUGE colony, just devouring everything in their path... Maybe that was it? I don't know. I just was out planting and tossed some seeds in the garden - it's worth a shot before heading out to the nursery. Maybe that will work for you, too? Good luck! Believe me, I FEEL for you!!! Hugs - Nini
Farmgirl Sister #1974
God gave us two hands... one to help ourselves, and one to help others!
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westfork woman
True Blue Farmgirl
554 Posts
Kennie Lyn
Emmett
Idaho
USA
554 Posts |
Posted - May 25 2012 : 10:07:44 AM
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Thank you Nini, I don't think it has been warm enough here for aphids, but maybe. I think I will get some DE and put around them, just in case it is bugs.
Greetings from the morning side of the hill. |
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oldbittyhen
True Blue Farmgirl
1511 Posts
tina
quartz hill
ca
USA
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Posted - May 25 2012 : 12:07:43 PM
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Tomatoe horn catapillars, they blend really well on the plants, and start really small and grow really big, pick them off and chickens love them...
"Knowlege is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad" |
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Bear5
True Blue Farmgirl
13055 Posts
Louisiana/Texas
USA
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Posted - May 25 2012 : 2:46:03 PM
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Tina:
How gross!! I'd burn the plant if I saw any kind of horned thing on it. I hate those things.
Marly
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." Elisabeth Kurler-Ross |
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oldbittyhen
True Blue Farmgirl
1511 Posts
tina
quartz hill
ca
USA
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Posted - May 25 2012 : 5:07:15 PM
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Marly, the chickens think they are candy, and will fight to get a bite...
"Knowlege is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad" |
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westfork woman
True Blue Farmgirl
554 Posts
Kennie Lyn
Emmett
Idaho
USA
554 Posts |
Posted - May 28 2012 : 8:55:31 PM
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I am not fond of tomato worms, either, but they won't hurt people, just tomatoes. I don't have chickens, so I pick them off and step on them. But this isn't tomato worms, we now think it is birds. So tomorrow I am putting the tomato frames covered with screen around the remaining plants. We planted a garden once several miles away from any other garden, in place that hadn't had a tomato growing for probably 15 years, and we still got tomato worms. There is a bacterial thing that kills them, can't remember the name, but I will have to get some this year.
Greetings from the morning side of the hill. |
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Annab
True Blue Farmgirl
2900 Posts
Anna
Seagrove
NC
USA
2900 Posts |
Posted - May 29 2012 : 04:19:37 AM
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Sadly, those huge catepillars turn into the very beautiful sphynx moth. These moths love 4;00 flowers and will pollinate them when they open at dusk.
Too bad  Because I know we all love our tomatoes.
We've had those durn Clolorado potato beetles jump from potatoes to our tomatoes which are in another field completely! Not too badly, but we almost lost one plant. Can't complain though. I mean, we only planted 200!! But both are in the nightshade family, so it only makes sense. |
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westfork woman
True Blue Farmgirl
554 Posts
Kennie Lyn
Emmett
Idaho
USA
554 Posts |
Posted - Jun 06 2012 : 12:24:39 PM
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DH decided it was quail pecking the leaves from the tomatoes. Says he saw their tracks. Anyway they seemed to have moved on to something else. The plants that had lost all their leaves were just coming back, then the hail hit. I had planted some more plants the day of the storm, the hail nearly ruined them, but the original ones are startiing to look better again. I planted cabbage the day of the storm, but covered them with a small tent made of old sheer curtains. It looks really funny to see a small round tent in the garden, but the old curtains completley protected the cabbage from the hail. Ah the joys of gardening.
Greetings from the morning side of the hill. |
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rough start farmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
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marianne
The Beautiful Pacific NW
Washington State
USA
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Posted - Jun 06 2012 : 7:42:21 PM
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Quail are so cute, you tend to forgive them thought don't you.
Marianne |
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crittergranny
True Blue Farmgirl
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Laura
Lindrith
NM
USA
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Posted - Jun 07 2012 : 05:48:14 AM
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Hugs Kennie Lyn. I hope your garden recovers in spite of the rough start.
Laura
Horse poor in the boonies.
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westfork woman
True Blue Farmgirl
554 Posts
Kennie Lyn
Emmett
Idaho
USA
554 Posts |
Posted - Jun 07 2012 : 08:39:24 AM
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Thank you all for the good wishes. Quail are so interesting to watch. One spring we had a very late snow, a pair of quail were on top of the fence outside our milk barn, and the female sounded like she was nagging her mate about the cold and snow, the male was just sitting there all hunched up and she was just complaining away. It was cute, and I really can't begrudge them a few tomato leaves. But I hope they just leave the green beans alone until they get big enough to vine.
Greetings from the morning side of the hill. |
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Annab
True Blue Farmgirl
2900 Posts
Anna
Seagrove
NC
USA
2900 Posts |
Posted - Jun 14 2012 : 12:43:14 PM
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Yes, the joys of gardening.....that's why we keep our day jobs!!
We had a time of it last year with crows pecking hole in our watermelon! this is the ONE money crop we do bother to try and sell. Sold a few, but not nearly the truck load we usually do, that's for sure!
Corn this year has done pathetically. Not enough rain :(
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