> SP> > exhuberant dogs break off major branches chasing cats through the
 > tomato patch, but as for eating them - nah.
 > JF> Well you've never met my dog!  We've caught her stealing pears
 > off the  neighbors tree!!!  And she was the one who ate my only tomato 
ust
 > a few weeks  ago!!!  And she's been seen picking loquats and she also eats
 > JF>ripe oranges!!!
 > That sounds about right - you'll notice it's not the plants, but the
 > fruit she craves. I sniggered when my first dog delicately stripped
 > all the raspberries off their vines. But I kinda got peeved
 > when she started sharing our strawberries, too. :-(
        Ha ha!  How rude!    '-)
 > The grey things sound suspiciously like cutworms, which will chop very
 > tender or tiny seedlings off just above soil level. I foil them with
 > cardboard or paper collars placed around my tomato seedlings.
        Oooohhh!  I've heard of this!!!  I got it off the internet and it 
said to do that... wrap newspaper around the seedlings just below the leaves 
"to prevent cutworms"... I thought this meant that something bad would happen 
to the parts that you cut the lower leaves off of... Geez!  What do I know?
                                        :-)
 > If you find yellow egg masses on the undersides of your
 > nightshade family plants, don't let them hatch to see what
 > kind they are - squish on sight! :-)
        Thanks for the advice Sandra!
                                                Chat with ya later!
                                                Janis  :)
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