I'm planting mine tonight. I have a raised bed about 8 x 4 so nothing too huge but enough for me. Here's what
is going in...

4 tomato plants ( 2 are grape sized, I can get names and post later)
3 heads of lettuce ( 2 green and one red )
1 green pepper plant
1 red pepper plant
1 jalapeno plant

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We over planted the pepper and tomato plants last years so we are looking to simplify.

1 Tomato
2 Pepper
1 Onion
1 Jalepeno
1 Strawberry's

We shall see how it rocks and rolls.

I think I did 6 tomato plants last year and it was way too much. 4 is probably too much but I give a lot away.
I mostly plant for something to do.

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I don't have a garden. But I rent a tiller from Home Depot every year and do my grandparents, aunt and parents gardens. I planted at my parent's house:

8 tomato plants (like t-bone I'll get there names)
2 habanero peppers
1 cayenne hybrid pepper
2 bell peppers
4 basil
2 rows of mixed green lettuce

I'll also plant two rows of cucumbers.

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doesn't matter how many tomato plants I plant, the mice, chipmunks, and squirrels get them all anyway.

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You have to wage war.

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Cherry tomatoes only!

never liked them. Always pick them off the salad.

Past summer, built a rooftop kitchen for a guy, spent a couple of weeks up there and I think I ate 2 or 3 bushes (BuuuuhhYE CRACKY!), had to come clean to the guy too, it was too obvious!

So this summer 4 of them in my expansive city yarden.

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“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Cherry and plum tomatoes are the way to go. You don't have to wait until September to harvest.

For variety in the salad do one plant yellow cherry.

We do 3 tomatoes, 5 herbs (no clue which ones but the wife uses them), basil, and mint (for smuggling Mojitos to Arlington!)

3 tomatoes is plenty.

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One year I planted 60 tomato plants. I think the chipmunks got them all. This year we have 16....right near the apricot trees which the squirrels love. Those are down from the cherry trees that the birds love.

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Lowes has a ton of traps and deterrents you can buy.

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1 x large bucket

1x ramp to bucket

1x fill bucket with water and sun flower seeds

Laugh maniacally.

Chipmunks are assholes. They take small bites out of every ripe tomato they find.

Set rat traps, baited with the very tomatoes that they have fouled. Two summers ago, I killed 17 chipmunks, and two mice.

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This does work. I don't want to drown them, just snap their necks in an instant.

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Use dried blood? I've heard that works.

Yeah, I don’t like to make any animal suffer. But I have no problem ending them. Especially insects.

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You like to do harm to things I see, you are spreading it across threads.

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Tomatoes
2 cherry
1 small fry
1 yellow grape
2 Red Brandywine
4 Mortgage Lifter
4 Cherokee Purple


3 jalapeno plants
2 troughs of basil
2 troughs of chives

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That's a pretty bold statement for a prey animal such as yourself, don't you think?

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Ah... I don't want to kill the little bastards. I'm used to seeing my dreams evaporate before my eyes.

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Have NSJ's fox family move into your yard. They will take care of any rodent or small child who happens to wander into your garden.

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Any Columbian gold?

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What did the guy say when you fessed up to the tomato thieving?

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Seriously, they do have some deterrents out there too. It would just keep them away. I'm sure there are homemade recipes too.

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Are you kidding? With my crazy neighbor, not a chance.

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Will you just kill that bitch and get it over with? She's ruining your life.

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Note to self: Just be internet friends with Leash, never meet him in public.

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My mother's cooking would deter them, but I don't want her hanging around.

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She called the cops on me the other day. I had my wife's car parked in the street, with the flashers on, right in front of the house. The car wasn't there more than three minutes, while I loaded up the trunk, and put my older son in his car seat. Two minutes after I left, my wife texted me, and said the cops drove by the house.

It would be a real shame if somebody spelled Caller Bob on her lawn, with some fertilizer.

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
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