On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 02:29:55 -0400, "Somebody"
> wrote:

>I was coming down the driveway this afternoon and the damn squirrel ran past
>me, with a green tomato in it's mouth. One of my tomatoes... Anyone ever
>built a tomato cage to keep squirrels out? I think that is the only hope...
>I have tried: chicken wire, wolf urine, plastic snakes, tin foil on string.
>Nothing keeps the evil vermin away.
>
>I read somewhere last year, the only fool proof thing is a cage over the
>plant with a lid that can be opened and clasped closed. I love fresh
>tomatoes and am not growing them for some very rude squirrels. If I can't
>have them, I will take the plants out.
>

Years ago my father made chicken wire chimneys to protect his tom,atos
from maurading squirrels and it worked wonderfully! He made hooks out
of the chicken wire to keep the cylindrical chimneys closed and he'd
unhook then to open the chimney abnd harvest the tomatos. We had a
prodigeous amount of non-squirrel-eaten-on tomatoes that year!

John Kuthe...