My experience with tomato theft.

[Vince]

Well I have read postings about tomatoes being stolen, and now I can join the club of victims. I have a Heat wave plant that was planted in july, and it is completely loaded with Toms. I was looking forward to picking the first two ripe tomatoes from it today or tommorow. This morning I realized that the two large Heavily blushing tomatoes were gone, just vanished without a trace. Where I live animals usually leave some trace of their attacks, so I assume it was a human animal. It is not supprising that somebody would steal tomatoes from my yard because it is totally unfenced and there is a lot of foot traffic next to my house every day. On the Bright side during the summer in prime tomato time, none of my better tomatoes(Brandywines, Big Beef, Beef Steak) were molested. Well my fall Brandywines and Brandy boys are a ways off from harvest, so they are probably safe for the moment. I put a sighn on a stake near the plant in question reading(Take a tomato and I'll give you some Buck shot in your a....). Just Kidding, the sighn reads lease do not take any tomatoes if you ask me I will gladly share. If this problem continues I will just have to avoid vine ripening and pick at the sighn of first blush. Good luck everybody.

Vince