garden thief!

[cellio]

On Tuesday I hit peak tomato, harvesting 22 (!) cherry tomatoes. There were several more that were almost ripe that I expected to pick the next day.

But the next day they were gone, all of them. I found the half-eaten carcass of one green tomato on the ground. I couldn't tell what ate it. I wonder if it was the rabbit I saw when I went out Tuesday evening to harvest some basil.

Both plants have some small green tomatoes, so I guess a second wave is coming after all. (I had come to the conclusion that one of them was not going to.) Some of the peppers are ready, some more almost ready, and some much younger and still green. I have no idea what the seasonal yield is supposed to be on these pepper plants; I was expecting a little more activity, but maybe they're a later-season thing.

Comments

[minoanmiss]

Naughty bunny!

[cellio]

Seems plausible, but there are also birds so I don't know. I don't know who favors what garden delicacies.

[elbren]

obligatory ursula vernon
https://apex-magazine.com/the-tomato-thief/

[hudebnik]

I planted two chili-pepper plants a month ago, in pots outdoors. The next morning I found that both of them had been dug up and left lying on the (concrete) ground. But they hadn't been eaten, or apparently damaged in any other way, so I re-planted them, the culprit didn't dig them up again, and they're both apparently thriving now. One of them now has several promising-looking green peppers on it. (The other, the same size and apparently equally healthy, has none; maybe it plays for the other team.)

We've had some trouble with robins eating the raspberries just before we consider them ripe enough to pick, and in past years we've had squirrels eating the quinces just before we consider them ripe enough to pick.

If my wife were posting this, she would doubtless say "You know, bunnies are tasty with basil and peppers...."

[minoanmiss]

If bunnies were kosher I totally would have included a recipe in my reply. ;)

[cellio]

Thanks! Nifty story.

A coworker was talking this morning about her garden-thieves (squirrels), and another coworker shared this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFZFjoX2cGg

[elbren]

ha! cute!