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Originally Posted by GoDawgs
Squirrels! This is exactly how my tomatoes have been decimated. We've had to pick them semi ripe and let them finish ripening indoors. Then the squirrels started in on the green ones.
Now they're starting in on the half ripe muscadine grapes, leaving skins all over the ground. Unlike tomatoes, the grapes can't be picked early. There probably won't be any muscadine jelly put up this year.
Time for depopulation with no regrets.
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I've had trouble with squirrels too eating some of my tomatoes. They have definite preferences for specific types. Last year it was the big yellow-orange ones they picked on (Mr Stripey or Solar Flare), but after I lost a few early in the season, I started picking them just when they turned from green and let them ripen inside, and that solved the problem for me; they didn't go for the green ones.