Unwelcome Guest

While I love to extend hospitality, I do have my limits! Look who we found in the tomatoes!



If you are having trouble spotting the little invader, start with the tomato that looks like a large animal has been eating it, that thing attached is not a leaf..... (Enlarging the pictures helps too!) That thing is actually a tobacco hornworm, and if left unchecked will mow through the tomatoes.

Needless to say the tomato went in the compost and the the worm in the garbage. Although he was so attached to the tomato plant and refusing to let go so we clipped the whole branch end off!

That's what he gets for not asking first.....

At least he was polite enough to eat the green ones and not the nice juicy red ones....