“Last week I had over two dozen green plum tomatoes blasting
away on the plants.
Thursday morning I went out - and they were all GONE. “
Many years ago, when we were still living in the mts. of western PA, I went out one morning to start picking my tomatoes to can. As I got closer, I was shocked to see that my entire patch, about 40 plants was - gone! On closer inspection, the wood stakes were laying around haphazardly, either pulled from the ground or broken off at ground level and about an inch of stalk left. The vines and all- GONE! The rest of the garden was untouched.???
In talking with the neighbors,we figured out we had a bear with selective taste. He got my tomatoes, another’s bean patch and another’s sweet corn. LOL!
Years ago I had a small patch of pink beans, black beans and pinto beans
in the back corner of the yard.
Driving up in front of the house one day I noticed a deer,
a young buck, munching down on my bean plants.
I went back there and tried to shoo him away.
He just ignored me until I became a nuisance.
Then he just stood there - glaring at me - while huffing
and puffing and stomping his front hooves.
He was making it clear that those delicious bean plants
were HIS and he was not going to stand for any of my
interference.
So I gave up - and decided to NOT have the neighbors call the
police on me for discharging a firearm in close proximity
to neighbors houses. Nor did I want to risk getting kicked
from swatting the deer on it's behind.
That buck ate those bean plants - stems and all - down to
flush with the ground. They must have been pretty good.