LOL loved your ending!

Yeah we're using cages right now, the kind you showed and also the square type which hooks to itself. Next year I think I'll use what I saw at my friend's landlord's this past weekend! Of course then netting becomes more difficult, but we've got time to figure something out. :)

Perhaps netting would keep both birds and walking critters out?

The chewed ones are green, both the one with a bite that I saw today, and also the three we've found on the ground.

We have some extra chicken wire, so I could put that around the tomato plants -- they're all at the beginning of the garden, first four or so plants in the right-most three rows, so I could surround them without using too much fencing. But now something is attacking our pepper plants! Removing leaves and flowers but I didn't see any missing peppers. So I need a solution to that as well, which just might be that A24 trap I haven't returned yet...

Yeah I've been seeing bees hard at work on the squash, and we have several now developing and took one zucchini last week for a salad!

I'm actually following @finian, I recognized the name -- but I haven't seen much from him. I don't like the feed, I've followed too many I guess... :) I'd like the ability to make categories for those I'm following, e.g. "close friends", "liberty-related", "gardening", "abstract art", etc, and then have each of those categories appear in the top menu, e.g. "home new hot trending promoted" would have the extra groups I create, to the right. That'd give me much better interacting capabilities, and interacting is why we're here, right? :)

I liked the hand pollinating article -- it didn't mention that after removing the male blossom to pollinate the female with it, you can bring it inside and fry it up! :)

Neat to see your artwork on finnian's post!

I just took some time to read some of the #steemgigs, and found a disabled graphic designer in the Phillipines who I most likely will have do an intro for my videos! https://steemit.com/steemgigs/@oppaniayu/my-first-steemgigs-offering-logo-animation-services-for-video-intros-or-openers-for-vlogging-dtube-youtube-and-more

Just joined Steemit.Chat, and said hi on the channel (but nobody was there it seems :) ). Now I can't seem to get back into that room; I have three, that one, and "general" and "postpromotion". Any idea? I just see a blank page to the right, when I click either #libertyprofessionals, or the link in your comment above -- do I need to be approved, or something? Here's a screencap:

Thanks for your help and friendship.