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Pastimes : Gardening and Especially Tomato Growing -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: EL KABONG!!! who wrote (420)	7/25/1998 12:01:00 AM
From: MSB	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3495

You're quite the informative fellow, Kerry. Thank you for the very informative post. Ya know, I planted marigolds around my tomatoes this year because I've heard that the scent of the flowers keeps away unwanted visitors, but I've not noticed them to be very effective in that regard. Today, in the as yet unfinished cage above a raised bed where our tomatoes are growing, I noticed with angst that one of the plants had been stripped of its quite immature fruit. Squirrels. I'm not the type that believes much in critter removal by death, but this is about the last year I care to put up with those little tree nesting thieves. I wish I could find an alternative to building some type of expensive structure ($60 and counting) to repel what I once thought was a nice part of the wildlife kingdom. Target practice is becoming more and more of a real alternative and perhaps even a stress reduction tool. These moths which lay the eggs and look similar to a hummingbird, are they mostly nocturnal? Have seen them rarely during the day. Thanks again for the hornworm info.