I'm picking tomatoes green, to ripen on windowsills again. Not because it's cold outside, but so I can eat them and not the critters.
Most of the large tomatoes in my garden get holes in them, and then start rotting. If I pick 'em quick enough, I can cut out the bad spots. It looks bigger than damage a bug would do- chipmunk or squirrel? bird? (I've
seen a bird stabbing its beak in one).
However, this plant that I still think is a wild reverted coleus, now overwhelming one end of the tomato bed,
has also nicely protected a few tomatoes. I found several of the large ones hidden under its leaves, ripened and completely untouched.
View from the back side, through screen. An unexpected bonus of letting this plant grow!
It might be shiso
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