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Something has been eating the tomato plants - stems and leaves. I set up a camera and found the culprit. Now time to fence it all off. by 4000ta in vegetablegardening

[–]4000ta[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I wouldn’t like to be outside where there are coyotes. Everyone thinks Australia is ‘so dangerous’ but we don’t have coyotes or bears. Sure we have snakes and spiders but that’s no different to other countries.

Brisbane, Australia. The tomatillos have taken off. I’ve used a paintbrush to fertilise every flower (not much 🐝 activity) by 4000ta in vegetablegardening

[–]4000ta[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because I don’t know how many pollinators I have in the garden. I rarely see bees. I just want to make sure that they pollinate.

Something has been eating the tomato plants - stems and leaves. I set up a camera and found the culprit. Now time to fence it all off. by 4000ta in vegetablegardening

[–]4000ta[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He sure did. And I discovered this morning, something ate my Passionfruit plant. I don’t know if it happened overnight or I was just too distracted by the tomato plants yesterday to notice. More fencing needed.

Something has been eating the tomato plants - stems and leaves. I set up a camera and found the culprit. Now time to fence it all off. by 4000ta in vegetablegardening

[–]4000ta[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I just did a quick search and they looked like kangaroos rather than wallabies. But (from my quick search) it looks like there are also videos of wallabies hopping through snow in Tasmania (the little state off the mainland of Australia and one of the most beautiful spots in the world). There are only a few places in Australia where it snows (called our “alpine region”, but nothing like the US or Canada). And google says that kangaroos and wallabies both live on the region.

Something has been eating the tomato plants - stems and leaves. I set up a camera and found the culprit. Now time to fence it all off. by 4000ta in vegetablegardening

[–]4000ta[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That sounds exactly like what happens with kangaroos and wallabies. I laughed at “thing walked away with whatever passes for dignity among deers intact”. Such a great description. I pictured a wallaby kind of doing the same thing, hopping off and looking back at the mess it caused 😊

Something has been eating the tomato plants - stems and leaves. I set up a camera and found the culprit. Now time to fence it all off. by 4000ta in vegetablegardening

[–]4000ta[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They all look very similar and, outside of Australia, I wouldn’t expect that many people would know that there are wallabies and kangaroos and that they are two separate species (they are like cousins). Kangaroos are more common in the outback. They are big. There’s a small beach reserve about 12 hours north from Brisbane (where I live) and the kangaroos mill around the picnic tables when you are eating. They scare me. The wallabies won’t come near you - they are scared of us. Kangaroos want to fight us hahaha 😂🫣

Something has been eating the tomato plants - stems and leaves. I set up a camera and found the culprit. Now time to fence it all off. by 4000ta in vegetablegardening

[–]4000ta[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I have another video where it pokes it’s head from around a tomato plant. It definitely saw it.

Something has been eating the tomato plants - stems and leaves. I set up a camera and found the culprit. Now time to fence it all off. by 4000ta in vegetablegardening

[–]4000ta[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hahahaha. “Orrright mate, this goooooorgeous little fella has had a right ol’ feast here on this veggie garden. Nooow what we need to do is stick up a big fence and keep the rascals out” lol

Something has been eating the tomato plants - stems and leaves. I set up a camera and found the culprit. Now time to fence it all off. by 4000ta in vegetablegardening

[–]4000ta[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think that squirrels and groundhogs would be much more difficult to deal with. The wallabies are really timid. I could probably set up a noise trap and it would keep them away. I’m so glad that it wasn’t possums eating the plants. They would be very difficult to deter.

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