I’ve squished a few grubs but don’t know if that’s what’s dining in the garden. Something is killing my tomato and peppers. I had an extra tomato transplant so it got put into a spot where the original had disappeared so we’ll see. The whatever ate those is also feasting on the squash so I replanted but the second planting isn’t coming up as fast as I thought it should. It might be the squirrels since there are holes everywhere. Anyway, the garden is 95% planted. There’s one 3x3’ spot that I’m not sure got seeds or not, lol! Today, I’m seeding up a handful of starter pots for round two of bell peppers since they were the first to disappear.
The herb bed still hasn’t been started and I need to find a couple hanging pots or maybe just wire up a couple on hangers and then it’ll all be done. It was all ready to go until hubby decided to wash the dog beside it and between the two of them demolished the border I had finished putting in two hours earlier, sigh.
/johnny
I had a cutworm eat off most of one of my tomato plants. Just use your finger to dig around the base and find them. My plant is coming back, since the center was still good.
BTW, I had to go to Cedar Park - 15 miles east of us - the next day and the ditches had about two feet of small hail and the parking lots were covered with chopped up tree leaves.
Whenever I have mystery eaters with tomatoes, it usually turns out to be 1 of 2 choices (sometimes both). Squirrels or tomato hornworm.
Those blasted worms are really hard to see. Once I was checking out the tomato plants, and thought all was clear, but I kept having leaves that were just stripped from the plant.
Finally I took a couple of plants and stuck them in a pot to bring them in - convinced it was some unknown predator. As I was repotting them, I trimmed off some leaves. Found teenage size horn worm on each plant. Cut them in two and pulled them off. Left the plants on the patio, treated with red pepper & onion/garlic homemade insecticide. No more problem.