The Leaping Dachshund Farms Tomato Cam is up

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Last year I had some pesky critters that kept grabbing my most prized tomatoes just as they ripened in the middle of the night. After a number of failed attempts to catch and rid myself of the problem I set up a WiFi security camera with inferred night vision to try and figure out what was eating them. It opened my eyes to a whole new world of crazy things that were going on in my little urban garden at night. Cats that I'd never seen around before, Possums, rats lots of moths and all sorts of stuff. Even one of my smart aleck running buddies got caught swiping one in the early morning. I think the garden got more traffic through it at night than during the day.

Anyway as things are just starting to ripen I set up the camera again last night and left it out today. I'll be moving it around the garden to get different vantage points and I thought I'd share some of the images here. It's a bit over kill but it did help me pinpoint that rats were doing most of the damage. I was able to catch and relocate them into a burlap submarine and solve the problem.

I present the Leaping Dachshund Farms Tomato Cam and I'll post some updates as things progress.