Overboard by Chip Dunham for August 25, 2010
August 24, 2010
August 26, 2010
Transcript:
jonas: day three. I am deep in the jingle now... ...probably near the very center... ...and the dreaded 'blossom end rot's has only claimed several victims that I can see. Charley: how are the tomatoes looking, jonas? Jonas: not bad, charley. Ive been on expeditions where I had to report back far greater tragedies believe me.
COWBOY7 over 13 years ago
Glad all is well, Jonas! LOL
Good Morning, Crew!
JP Steve Premium Member over 13 years ago
Is that Indiana Jonas, the famous Archaeobotanist?
Morning crewmates!
WoodEye over 13 years ago
Yar Mates! I wonder how Jonas would stand up to a large tomato worm?
Lyons Group, Inc. over 13 years ago
Interesting, Sheik. I’ll look this lava up on Wikipedia.
lightenup Premium Member over 13 years ago
About time they did something helpful. Now if they could come up with a trap for those rabbits…
Good morning, Crew!
Dry and Dusty Premium Member over 13 years ago
Sheik I think they are beautiful caterpillars, destructive as all get out, but very pretty. I pick them off and throw them far away from my garden. I don’t like to kill them! Yeah, I’m nuts, I know! LOL!
Morning Crew!
DolphinGirl78 over 13 years ago
Dry: By throwing them away, I would assume they die on the landing anyhow…
Good Hump Day Crew!!!
instigator20 over 13 years ago
Good Morning Crew,
Must be the RAF (Rodent Air Force) could not get the photos it needed, Now we have the REF (Rodent Expeditionary Force) on the ground. I see this escalating. Oh the Humanity of it all.
Have a GREAT DAY MATIE’S
GROG Premium Member over 13 years ago
They might do better by trying to find the homing device the rabbits planted.
Good Morning, Crew
Dry and Dusty Premium Member over 13 years ago
Tanya Bad choice of words, I lay them elsewhere!
Trebor39 over 13 years ago
The tomato horned worms camouflage so well with tomato leaves that you can stare right at them and not see them.
Dry and Dusty Premium Member over 13 years ago
Trebor true! I find it a challenge to follow their “trail” (skat) and locate them and pick them off! (I DO HAVE A LIFE, BTW, ROFLMAO!)
Dry and Dusty Premium Member over 13 years ago
Burgandy2 I have on occasion used shears and cut the leaf off and CARRY leaf and all up back out of the way.
I must not be the only gardner here, with all the talk of hornworms. Shall we start on blossom end rot next? :-D
Dry and Dusty Premium Member over 13 years ago
Burgundy2 after all this time, I just NOW noticed that’s a u in your name and not an a! Sorry about that!
GrimmaTheNome over 13 years ago
Eeek! lots of things are bigger in the US than in the UK and that includes your caterpillars. I don’t think my toms suffer from any predators, actually - just blossom end rot (ruined them all last year - this year touch wood doing ok.)
Dry and Dusty Premium Member over 13 years ago
GrimmaTheNome! One or two tomatoes have it, but so far so good!
lin4869 over 13 years ago
A couple of years ago, my tomato plant on the deck had 5 of those worms. I was angry because they did so much damage and I plucked them off while wearing my garden gloves, but I could feel them writhing right through the glove. (Yikes!) I confess I threw them into some high grass and weeds in hopes they’d find something else tasty.
natashalee over 13 years ago
Tomato Hornworms are the larva of a huge moth called five-spotted hawkmoth. Approximate size of the moth is around the size of a hummingbird so you can’t miss them. The hawkmoth is gray-brown with yellow spots on the sides of their body. See picture here: http://tdserver1.fnal.gov/peterson/tom/moths/sphingidae/sphingidae-pages/fivespottedhawkmoth.html