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YouTube: Tomato Hack – Rescue Tomatoes From Critters

Are critters snagging your tomatoes before they’re ripe? The tomato hack in our latest YouTube video will help you rescue all your tomatoes before critters can get them.

This quick tomato hack is simple and easy to do. We give you hints to know what to look for and how to get ripe tomatoes in no time.

Tomato Hack

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rats eating tomatoes
Rats are active in the garden despite multiple traps. We pick a little early around here to keep them for ourselves.

Resources

Why this trick different than icky store-bought tomatoes? – See why home grown is way better than store bought, even when picked early. Here’s the dish on ethylene gas.

Newspaper – if you want to use newspaper to ripen your tomatoes, here’s how.

Striped roman tomatoes

Be selfish, keep all your tomatoes for yourself (and your friends). Keep rats from stealing all your prized orbs, and use the tomato hack in our video to do it. You’ll be pleased as punch and up to your ears in abundance if you do.

This Post Has 2 Comments

  1. Heidi Keller

    Wish I knew this a year or two ago!! Thanks

    1. Christy

      You know what they say: never too late!

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