Tomato thief capture and punished!

[Baldy]

I've lost 5% or so of my Tom's to some thieving git. Caught em at it today!


It's a green caterpillar with a thin yellow stripe. Anyone ID it?

As punishment I've tied it down on the edge of the lawn where it will meet it's fate at the hands/beaks of the BLACK BIRD OF FINALITY

[veggiechicken]

bright line Brown eye/Tomato moth caterpillar - so well named

http://www.wildlifeinsight.com/the-b...ea-bf-no-2160/

[the big lebowski]

i was expecting to see somone tied to a tree ,tarred and feathered

[veggiechicken]

^^^ That will be Baldy when the Caterpillars fight back.

[Baldy]

i was expecting to see somone tied to a tree ,tarred and feathered

In my mind's eye - everything is a bit 'Games of Thrones' / War of the Roses

[robbra]

I had my best Ananas go missing over the weekend, only one suspect, four legs, waggy tail. It was pears last week. Found him at it again yesterday, caught in the act, Ildi and Alisa Craig, pleaded guilty but those big brown eyes. Sentence served by way of time in custody. I'll just have to keep an eye on him and hope he doesn't get a taste for dwarf french beans.

[Snoop Puss]

^I have similar problems. I'm going to fence in part of my patch and grow everything that a dog might find tempting inside. And possibly not bother growing potatoes. I can't fence in a large enough area to included tatties and they're more trouble than they're worth for the few that we manage to eat.

Never had any problem with the dogs eating beans, but peas, toms, peppers, melons, squash, courgettes and, of course, potatoes. One of our dogs will climb into trees for fruit. I keep reading articles about things dogs are not supposed to eat, but ours clearly haven't been paying attention.

[Craig_C]

Took our four collies into the Woods for a tramp yesterday.
We didn't find one, but funnily enough, they were eating Brambles straight from the bush which I hadn't seen dogs do before.

[veggiechicken]

My dogs pick their own blackberries, raspberries, tomatoes, beans and cabbage/kale. They pick up windfall apples to play Fetch and the apple gets smaller with every throw until they expect me to throw a bit of core!
They don't seem to have noticed the courgettes yet. Don't know why - they've been hard to miss this year.

[robbra]

I'm thinking if he finds the newly emerging chillies it might put him off helping himself.