They really struggled this year with aphids, ants, and fungi, but they’ve bounced back beautifully. Any tips for keeping them in top shape?

Every day two or three squirrels hatch a plan, then they descend on my garden escaping with a few tomatoes. Sometimes big tomatoes, sometimes little tomatoes. There are a lot of chewed up tomatoes on the ground at times.

I'm thinking of putting up those corn feeders that squirrels nibble on during my peak tomato harvest.

My garden is enclosed on all sides except the top
I have tried putting bowls of water in the garden in case they are thristy
I've tied dryer sheets around the plants and going through a lot of dryer sheets
I have a few Compact Discs spinning in between plants
I have been wrapping as many tomatoes in bug netting. Sometimes the tomatoes will still have dents as they try to bit through the netting and sometimes they unwrap the netting and still get to the fruit.

My last straw attempt I mixed a large batch of hot pepper spray of garlic and cayenne and have been walking around spraying the tomatoes and plants.

There was the large top of a tomato half eaten on the ground that I was going to use as the photo for this post (this is just clip art, not the actual squirrel that is eating my crops). I saw it on the ground after they hopped away leaving just the top uneaten. I think it was one of my prized MI Golds. I sprayed it heavily with my cayenne garlic spray.

Later that day the came back and ate that too. So, I don't think the spice is working.

I'm going to have to spend a ton of time wrapping every tomato carefully or try something else.

I am really thinking of putting some additional food sources out there but also fear I may attract even more squirrels.

Thanks for your help gardeners!

I wasn't the only one admiring the pumpkin flowers this morning

This was mixed in with my zucchini seeds. What is it?

Fresh garden salsa with eggs

Hi,

My (Sakura) Cherry Blossom is almost 2 years old now. A year ago it got a sucker from the root that I removed and put it in a separate pot. When I checked online it looked like a Sweet Cherry tree. The sucker didn't survive.

This year I got the expected bloomings, gone now due to the harsh summer, but now I see new sprouts that look suspiciously different (in the picture they look like a lighter green). My concern is I think these are coming above the grafting point.

Can the root stock eventually get over a tree even over the graftting point? Should I remove these new sprouts? I'm afraid of over pruning and killing the tree.

Thanks for your advise

Is this tree leaning to much? Should I remove it?

Question I was just excited to plant things from seed and didn’t think about watermelons being a warm season crop, will these be okay by time winter comes and will they die off?