Love Mortgage Lifter..Unfortunately, so do the squirrels and chipmunks...If you, or anyone else has tips to discourage them from taking a bite or two from each of my tomatoes, I would appreciate it...They are the bane of my gardening existence—Rodents and squash bugs!!!
They are probably looking for water. Put shallow pan out located a distance away from the tomatoes and hopefully that will keep them from taking a bite or two from your tomatoes.
If there is no easy way to get rid of the squirrels, you can feed them nuts at another end of the yard. This has helped us keep the squirrels from taking one bite of each orange and thus ruining the treeful.