{"id":7713,"date":"2015-07-16T15:15:49","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T22:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/?p=7713"},"modified":"2015-07-16T15:15:49","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T22:15:49","slug":"the-tomato-fiasco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/the-tomato-fiasco\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tomato Fiasco"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember that crazy tomato plant that just popped up 3 years ago, uninvited,\u00a0in my rose garden? The one that produced over 8,000 delicious big cherry tomatoes? Well it came back this year and was going along beautifully, and quickly. I could tell it was going to be huge.<\/p>\n

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I even got a few sweet, delicious, red, vine-ripened, organic tomatoes… until THEY showed up.<\/p>\n

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The nasty\u00a0squirrels started coming by every day and they and ate every red tomato – not only that – they ate the green ones too so there was no chance of any tomatoes for us. This was a lot of squirrels. They brought their families, probably renting \u00a0motorhomes and minivans to bus everybody\u00a0in. The battle was no longer worth fighting. It was time to end it, like a bad breakup. If I can’t have you, nobody will. About 3 weeks ago, I went out at night and took out the plant, including the roots so it could never come back.<\/p>\n

The next morning, the squirrels were pissed, running around like the world was going to end.<\/p>\n

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They even came up to the window to express their anger, knowing I had just ruined their entire summer. Too bad, you mangy, rat-faced, no-good, low-life, beady-eyed, scum-sucking, tomato-stealing squirrels \u00a0because the tomato plant is gone. And don’t come looking for it again because it’s never coming back.<\/p>\n

That was 3 weeks ago. Look what I found\u00a0this morning.<\/p>\n

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Twenty-three tomato plants just popped up in 3 different locations. What now?????<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember that crazy tomato plant that just popped up 3 years ago, uninvited,\u00a0in my rose garden? The one that produced over 8,000 delicious big cherry tomatoes? Well it came back this year and was going along beautifully, and quickly. I could tell it was going to be huge. I even got a few sweet, delicious, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-backyard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t