We have used the old slug control method. A small cup slightly buried so the rim is near soil level near the plant. Fill it with beer. Slugs like the beer, go in the cup and drown.
I am in teh suburbs. Skunks eat lugs so there are lots of anti slug pellets in places like Home Depot, but I also don’t want to adversely affect other outdoor critters.
I do suspect that teh squirrels have tasted the beer along with the peanuts we put out for them
Vandal_A
I’ve never come home to find my vegetables have picked and rinsed themselves
Aldiirk
I see you’re also overrun by yellow pear tomatoes. I have a stupid amount from literally one plant (~250-400 yellow pears per week). The vines grow like weeds and are literally covered in tomatoes. They’ve bent my steel-cored pole (!) under their weight and snapped the string I used to tie them up. They’re crawling through my garden paths and spreading through my rabbit fence. The whole plant probably weighs 200 lbs (90 kg). “Vigorous grower” on the seed packet is an understatement. This thing is a weed that just happens to make fruit.
I just got inside after picking another 10.5 lbs (4.7 kg) of the damn things. I don’t even know what to do with them anymore–my freezer is completely filled, I have more than 2000 dried, and my neighbors and coworkers are sick of them too. I think I’m going to pretend they’re sauce tomatoes and can them as tomato sauce.
My brandywines complain if the temperature is too hot, or too cold, or too humid, or too dry. This thing doesn’t care. 100F+ (40C+)? Fruiting time. 40F (4C)? Fruiting time. Drought? Fruiting time. Torrential spring downpours for weeks on end? Believe it or not, fruiting time.
Oh, and I know I’m going to get 10,000 volunteers next spring growing in my yard, because I can’t count the number I’ve found randomly lying in the dirt or stepped on.
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I think I harvested about 3 lbs altogether. Such a successful first year attempt for me.
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Send help…I harvested (estimated) 30-40 lbs in a week…
Is this a method to mature tomatoes? I’ve neevr heard of this and I have a bunch that would definitely benefit from this treatment.
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Another angle of the unripe ones.
Do you pull them when green to avoid pests?
We have used the old slug control method. A small cup slightly buried so the rim is near soil level near the plant. Fill it with beer. Slugs like the beer, go in the cup and drown.
I am in teh suburbs. Skunks eat lugs so there are lots of anti slug pellets in places like Home Depot, but I also don’t want to adversely affect other outdoor critters.
I do suspect that teh squirrels have tasted the beer along with the peanuts we put out for them
I’ve never come home to find my vegetables have picked and rinsed themselves
I see you’re also overrun by yellow pear tomatoes. I have a stupid amount from literally one plant (~250-400 yellow pears per week). The vines grow like weeds and are literally covered in tomatoes. They’ve bent my steel-cored pole (!) under their weight and snapped the string I used to tie them up. They’re crawling through my garden paths and spreading through my rabbit fence. The whole plant probably weighs 200 lbs (90 kg). “Vigorous grower” on the seed packet is an understatement. This thing is a weed that just happens to make fruit.
I just got inside after picking another 10.5 lbs (4.7 kg) of the damn things. I don’t even know what to do with them anymore–my freezer is completely filled, I have more than 2000 dried, and my neighbors and coworkers are sick of them too. I think I’m going to pretend they’re sauce tomatoes and can them as tomato sauce.
My brandywines complain if the temperature is too hot, or too cold, or too humid, or too dry. This thing doesn’t care. 100F+ (40C+)? Fruiting time. 40F (4C)? Fruiting time. Drought? Fruiting time. Torrential spring downpours for weeks on end? Believe it or not, fruiting time.
Oh, and I know I’m going to get 10,000 volunteers next spring growing in my yard, because I can’t count the number I’ve found randomly lying in the dirt or stepped on.