What Are Those Red Things In Our Garden?

All summer long, Howard and I have watched our burgeoning chipmunk

population dine on tomatoes.

Ripe tomatoes, unripe tomatoes, big tomatoes, small tomatoes . . .

no tomato escaped their ravenous tiny selves.

Really.  We were able to salvage one tomato from 4 plants.

So imagine my surprise to check out the mixed border along the stone wall behind the house,

and find tomatoes hanging on the vines.  Unmolested tomatoes.  Loads of them.  Proof:

 

Even in the shaded lower portion of the border, there are tomatoes.  And weeds, too.

My crop of weeds this summer was spectacular.

Peek-A-Boo!  These are the prolific heirloom tomatoes.  The chipmunks loved them.

So . . . what's up with the chipmunks?  They are still scurrying around, still in and out of the stone wall

and their little holes they've dug in the lawn.  Makes me wonder . . .  

As much as I am looking forward to having fresh tomatoes -- finally! -- is there something

about these round red guys that the chipmunks know,  and we don't? 

Visit Susan at A Southern Daydreamer for Outdoor Wednesday.  Click!

And buzz on over to Sue and It's A Very Cherry World for Wednesday Is Rednesday.  Click!

See you on Thursday! -- Cass