Damned Squirrels Left Me One Tomato All Summer!

Netting couldn’t keep the suckers out

I think I’ve spawned a new species of squirrel in my backyard over the past five years: a species that can thrive on nothing but green tomatoes supplemented by an occasional snack of garbage.

I’ve grown tomatoes in my backyard in Philadelphia for about eight years now and in the early years, I harvested tomatoes by the hundreds. This year I planted 10 or 12 tomatoes–early girls, big boys, lemon boys, a Cherokee purple, etc.—and all that the squirrels left me was one lousy tomato no bigger than twice the size of a buffalo nickel.

I tried many ways to stave them off: fencing, netting, row cover wrapping tomato clusters like mummies, even a rat trap (which finished the summer 1 out of about 100 snaps). A feral cat that roamed the neighborhood and regularly passed through my backyard on her hunting rounds, kept the squirrels up in the trees when she was on patrol. But when she was away, the squirrels played, freely taking my tomatoes, when they had grown to medium-size and were far from ripe, just a few tomatoes a day, so that you hardly notice, until you realize none are ever getting ripe.

In the end, nothing stopped squirrels from getting every last one of my backyard tomatoes this summer.
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Next summer, I will either construct a fully enclosed, heavy-gauge chicken-wire cage for my plants, or I’ll give up trying to grow tomatoes in my backyard garden altogether.

Unless anybody can comment here about another way…

feral cat kept squirrels in trees . . .until she left