There we were enjoying the deliciously juicy cherry tomatoes from our garden; making tomato soup, tomato salads, tomato sauces, more tomato soup and then what happens? The caterpillars strike! Large pale green ones, big furry black ones and sickly looking yellow ones all over the tomato plants, helping themselves to all our delectable fruit. The cheek!
It has to be said that we were struggling to keep up with all the tomatoes our plants were generously producing. We also bought a variety of tomato suitable for hanging baskets but then didn't have enough hanging baskets to plant them in and so planted them in the ground which wasn't the best solution as they are not the easiest variety to tie to sticks and bamboo. No matter what they give in to gravity and keep hanging down. So there were dozens and dozens of deliciously ripe juicy tomatoes trailing along the ground in our greenhouse and the caterpillars probably thought well if you aren't making the most of these we happily will, thanks very much. All very well if they eat a whole tomato here and there but no they have a little bit of a nibble here and a nibble there and eat some leaves and some stems while they're at it and before you know it the leaves are turning yellow, all your fruit is rotting and your plant is dying.
What to do?!
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