amy99s
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what is eating my tomatoes (picture included)

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I keep finding tomatoes that look like this but I have gone out at night to look for hornworms and never see any

amy99s
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Also I started picking them earlier as soon as I started to see red thinking that would stop it and today I found a really green one with the same eating pattern on it

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Possibly birds. But possibly nothing. Have you had a bunch of rain lately?

Sometimes if the tomatoes have not been well watered and then they get a whole bunch of water (e.g. big rain storm) all at once, they can't expand quickly enough to accomodate all the water they take in and they just split.

The good news is your plant is looking really healthy! :)

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I water them daily but we did get a lot of rain yesterday... would it split like that? Maybe you are right about birds, I guess I need to get my net back over the garden area

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And yes my plants are doing AMAZING other than I keep losing tomatoes every morning (I did pick off 9 the other day that had just started turning red and they ripened really well in my kitchen)

This is my first year growing plants and its all SO exciting !!!



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