[murraysmom]

When I lived in Virginia many years ago, I always had a big vegetable garden with 25-30 tomato plants because I canned. One day in July just before the tomatoes were ready to pick,my lab Buddy got into the garden and spent several hours walking up and down the rows of tomatoes taking exactly one little bite out of each tomato within his reach- he must have gotten at least 40!

We also had a line of blackberry bushes along the woods, and we would watch him carefully nibble the berries trying to avoid the thorns.

That dog really loved produce!

 

[murraysmom]

..... in Lola's tummy....

No strawberries this year I guess, and by next year, we'll have to find a way to plant them in such a way that she can't reach them [/b]

Try draping Garden Netting over the plants- it is fine,light-weight plastic mesh that is black so virtually invisible- it's the only thing I've found to keep the squirrels, chipmunks and rabbits from destroying plants. If you wrap it around the base of bushes in the early spring, it stops the rabbits from eating the new shoots. I get it at our local hardware store for about $5 for a big package- ( I also plant bulbs using this: I make a little sack and plant the bulbs inside it. Until I started doing this, the squirrels would dig up every bulb I planted. I love Garden Netting!)