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Jul. 24th, 2009 04:27 pmOkay, I know there are a few gardening types on my f-list, so I'll pose this query here.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but generally all of a tomato plant, except for the ripe fruit, is poisonous. That's what you get for being related to nightshade and all. That would therefore imply that except for the ripe fruit, you generally don't want to go snacking on tomato plants.
With that in mind, I'd love to know why I've had a squirrel breaking off (and I'm assuming chewing) tomato leaves from the garden. And while I don't have positive proof, I think it may be eating the unripe fruit too. On the other hand, it's entirely possible I'm not seeing the same squirrel every time. Hm.
On a different note, we apparently had a GINORMOUS storm last night, with massive, explosion-like thunderclaps. I say 'apparently' because I slept through it. >_> Although I did have some rather distressing dreams involving explosions. It seems like even though I can be very sound sensitive, especially when I'm trying to fall asleep, when it comes to huge sounds in the middle of the night, I sleep right through them. I slept through Hurricane Fran when it came barreling through the area over a decade ago, killing power(which we were without for a week) and knocking down trees, some of which were in our backyard. Well, I should qualify that. I did wake up once--long enough to think to myself "Oh, it's raining", and then rolling over and going back to sleep. ^_^;
Correct me if I'm wrong, but generally all of a tomato plant, except for the ripe fruit, is poisonous. That's what you get for being related to nightshade and all. That would therefore imply that except for the ripe fruit, you generally don't want to go snacking on tomato plants.
With that in mind, I'd love to know why I've had a squirrel breaking off (and I'm assuming chewing) tomato leaves from the garden. And while I don't have positive proof, I think it may be eating the unripe fruit too. On the other hand, it's entirely possible I'm not seeing the same squirrel every time. Hm.
On a different note, we apparently had a GINORMOUS storm last night, with massive, explosion-like thunderclaps. I say 'apparently' because I slept through it. >_> Although I did have some rather distressing dreams involving explosions. It seems like even though I can be very sound sensitive, especially when I'm trying to fall asleep, when it comes to huge sounds in the middle of the night, I sleep right through them. I slept through Hurricane Fran when it came barreling through the area over a decade ago, killing power(which we were without for a week) and knocking down trees, some of which were in our backyard. Well, I should qualify that. I did wake up once--long enough to think to myself "Oh, it's raining", and then rolling over and going back to sleep. ^_^;
