Drats! Hornworms... things had been going well...

[Hondo_Lane]

I was several weeks late planting this year due to the weather but since then things have been going pretty well. I have thirty pretty nice tomato plants growing and everything is doing well.

This morning I was just planning on sitting in the garden a while and enjoying a cigar as the sun came up. However I happened to notice a recently munched on tomato! I knew what caused it and immediately started the search. It took just a few minutes and I found him and he was pretty large, I got lucky seeing the damage so early and getting him out of there. Spent a couple more hours searching every plant and found two more, one of which was very small.

I'll spend some time today researching how to best deal with these worms. I'm leaving on Wednesday for the Kentucky Nascar Race and sure would hate to come home to find a lot of damage!