I am seriously considering putting in a garden cam. I need something. I have seen this bird cams that you can buy (not cheaply, either!) and sit by a nest and it’s activated by movement. Well, I need something that I can put in front of my tomato plants to see who is picking my tomatoes! I have placed a number of “barriers”, fencing no less, around my tomato plants that are in the flowerbed. I figure I can pretty much kiss any possible patio tomatoes goodbye. I have lost the one and only tomato from one of those plants already!
Well, I had two tomatoes that were growing pretty well, still green though, and they disappeared in the past few days. I checked the ground around them….no evidence of dog activity. I would assume that Lucy or Boris got them, but I can’t figure out how they got into that bed without disturbing anything else! Would a squirrel pick tomatoes? I doubt it, but I guess it could be possible. Also, I can’t imagine what kind of critter could make it in the yard and past Boris. Remember the dead oppossum I came home to lying next to his toy? Jeez! What a hunter. Anyway, I’m now considering getting some bird netting to put around my tomato plants. What a nuisance. I want some homegrown tomatoes, man!
Oh, one more mystery happened in my yard last week. I went to fill up one of my bird feeders in the back of the yard. I was wondering where the base went! It was gone, but was there the night before. This base fits onto the bottom of my Droll Yankees feeder and it attaches with a plug screw. The plug screws into the base of the feeder and is larger than the base (where the birds can perch and eat) so there is NO feasible way it can become unattached unless the plug is unscrewed. Well, the plug was still in there and the base was lying six feet away in the grass! Weird. I told my mom that someone came in there and took the base off and screwed the plug back in. LOL. I must have a ghost. THAT I cannot blame on Boris.
Well, keep your fingers crossed that I can get some beautiful and delicious tomatoes this year! I have 9 plants, 5 of which are in the flowerbed. I think the flowerbed plants are my best bet. I’ll keep you posted!
