[Dailydrool] Tomato Battles

[Kate Lawson]

Lucy eats my tomatoes when they are green. She loves them ripe also but knows that if she waits too long I may get them. She takes no chances. The last 2 years I have managed to get none. Each year I try again with a different protection scheme. This year will be worse because Lucy will teach the puppy, Daisy, to eat them. I have two large containers with bird netting around each of the tomato frames and then an exercise pen around the two containers. So far it is keeping them from eating the (fertilized) dirt, yumm, but I won't bet on the fruits when they get bigger.
I learned last year that snakes will get tangled in the bird netting and become a howling good time for the hounds. The pack ruckus is so bad that I actually feel sorry for the snake. It has already happened once this season. However, I must have my tomatoes.

Kate, Hamlet, Lucy, Daisy