I have planted a garden for the first time in many years this year. Hubby made me two raised beds ( 4X8) and we had 4 tons of dirt delivered It was not the best but not the worst either. Got some peat moss and coffee grounds worked into it and that really helped. Any way I planted a number of tomato plants that we started which bugs immediatly began to eat.
I also planted some purchased tomato plants which the bugs did not even touch!
Anyway, my tip is this, we cut the tops and bottoms off of 16 oz water bottles and used the resulting sleeves to protect our ( replanted) seedlings, and they worked GREAT. Nothing ate them, and they grew really well. When they got big enough, we just slid the collars off of them. I saved them in a bag hanging from basement rafters for next season. Now that our garden is growing great guns, we have had to fence it, the bugs have found other things appealing in there. They manage to pull the radishes up nightly, not to eat, just to pull up and lay in rows. It is the oddest thing I have ever seen, they are pulled and neatly laid in a row just as they grew! Ay guesses what is doing it? I think it is a squirrel, or rabbits.
