Good morning folks. I was out here working on my tomatoes today and I
noticed something that I don't see that often. I thought I would bring it to your attention. This is a row of Juliet's. They're doing quite well, except all of a
sudden I see, if you can see this, guess what? The leaves are stripped off. Quite a
few of them. And then I saw something I've never seen before. Something has
bored some holes into this plant. Anyway, when I see leaves gone I automatically
think about the tomato hornworm. And now this has been clipped off completely
This fence, my garden is enclosed. There's no, there's no animals coming in
here and snipping off these tomato leaves. But I did, so I've been looking
for the tomato hornworm. I'm thinking where is it? They're usually really large, you know, and the ants are more big chunky worms. You can't miss them. You can
just grab them and step on them or throw them out. I did find, I did find
one little worm in here and, oh never mind, there's a better one. So what do we
have here? We've got ourselves a worm just feasting in here on the tomato too
Okay, there's one and then there's another small one here. Where is he in
the camera? Let me just back out a second here. Oh there he is. And by the way, when you see this little stuff, kind of on some
leaves, that's poop. That's some sort of insect poop. It's around here. So these
little clues, just pay attention to them. I'm going to probably have to put out
some insecticide, which I almost never do on tomatoes. But when it's called for
it's called for. So that's the story today. Missing leaves, holes in the plant
and a board in tomato. So time for some insecticide and hope you have a good day
Hope you don't see this in your garden. You know, happy gardening. Bye-bye