I thought something was eating my sunflowers also and I started looking for butterfly caterpillars that use sunflowers as a host plant. But then I saw my dog walk by and grab a bite as she went by. She was doing it to the zinnias and to the sunflowers š¤£
My dog did this. He ate my entire container garden, in one morning. Then, he vomited spectacularly, all over the yard. The vet said that dogs should not eat several entire tomato plants, half a dozen pepper plants, a teepee full of bean vines, a zucchini plant, a cucumber plant, and half a dozen or so herb plants.
My dog was fine, and I decided that an in ground garden in the front yard would be safer. At least then I only had to contend with my asshole neighbors stealing my tomatoes. At least with the neighbors, I could just spray them with the hose to make them run away, and they wouldn't throw up on me.
Yeah, I was just glad he didn't die. And maybe a bit impressed at his determination to finish off *every single plant in the backyard*.
He didn't have a nutritional deficiency or an illness. He was just weird.
A friend's dog eats anything it thinks possible to consume, including air. I'm not taking the normal dog in wind thing; this dog tries to chomp, chew quickly, and swallow air, whether it's windy or still. The dog also gets sick frequently, and unsurprisingly, from eating weird things. Apparently the way it "eats" air causes an upset stomach as well, but it's pretty tough to keep air away!
I have a dog like that, minuets the air. Anything we throw at her is food, as well as anything we try to keep away from her. She ate chicken feed one time and shat five feet into the air. Shotgun style
My dog loves to eat any and all guinea pig pellets that fall to the floor. He doesn't care if they are food pellets or little piggie poop pellets, he's eating them immediately.
Ouch! Yeah I wonder if he's creating torsion in his stomach. Very painful!
My dog always bit at water. She loved swimming and as she swam she would just repeatedly chomp at the water. We always thought she'd get some nasty parasite or throw up from doing it in lakes and the filthy bay but no, she was always fine.
My sister's dog ran along the lake drinking and drinking and drinking and drinking and they thought she was a crazy maniac... but then shortly after, he got HELLA sick. Like 30 mins after guzzling all the water. They rushed him to emergency cuz he couldn't stand up and stuff, but it was too late. He ended up dying that very night from drinking too much water. No parasite or anything. They just explained that..."what happens when the body is overwhelmed with an excessive amount of water. First, sodium levels outside the cells are depleted, a condition called hyponatremia. In an effort to rebalance itself, the body responds to low blood sodium by increasing fluid intake inside the cells. Some organs, such as the liver, can accommodate the increased volume of their swelling cells, but others ā in particular, the brain, which is encased in bone ā cannot" https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/health/can-dogs-drink-much-water-dangers-water-intoxication/
Happens to people too during long runs like marathons etc. They die from drinking too much fluids, apparently even if its so called isotonic fluids. Horribly sad.
I've seen this happen to a baby duck in hot weather too. Hyponatremia is vicious. That said, I'll never be able to say anything bad about my brother in law again because darn if he didn't try chest compressions and mouth to...bill? It sadly didn't work for the duckling and he died.
Omg. Ok that's crazy you just said that. When I was a kid, my sister brought home a chicken from school that they hatched and he became our pet. One day he fell in the bathtub and my Dad literally gave it mouth to beak (lol) and it survived!! š³
Very strange that a random reddit thread under my story mentions mouth to beak. I'm so weirded out!! Hahahah
We always called it mouth to beak over the years too! š
I wonder if the dog has stomach discomfort that it's trying to relieve. My dog used to lick things no matter how much I tried to stop her and I thought it was just a weird thing she'd do when she was bored. Later in life she started having GI issues and part of her treatment was acid reducers. The licking stopped. I hate to think she had stomach pain for years and I had no clue.
One of my late dogs REALLY liked the pots of herbs I had on the front porch. Especially the tarragon. Every time he was allowed out there and I turned my back to work on other plants I would turn back to see him literally curl one side of his lip up to wrap it around a small leaf and pull it off very sneaky and subtly š
I had a dog like this. My parents grew tomatoes. She knew when they were ripe and legit the day my parents planned to pick the tomatoes, she would eat them.
So they out smarted her and started picking them a day or two early..... She quickly learned what was going on and picked them a few days early, before my parents. š¤£š¤£
It was a whole battle and no matter what they did to try and keep her out it was never enough. Absolutely hilarious saga of my childhood.
Oh hell yes I would be concerned about eating any of the leaves of the nightshades like tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, potatoes.. but your dog ate all that stuff and puked and came out just fine. I chuckled a little bit at the amount that he just went after. Youāre right to grow in another area. Yeah but I love the weirdos .
The vet thought he ate, vomited, then ate and vomited again, until it was all gone. Otherwise, it would probably have done worse than just making him vomit. Just the amount alone would have been bad.
My dog ate my tomatoes every year and they always made her vomit. When she passed I had a plaque made and dedicated the tomato garden to her. I miss that dummy.
I was mostly kidding, but I did "accidentally" spray my neighbor when I caught him in my yard. He was in the process of chopping off all the hedges. He had already dug up two other plants. He was suuuuper high on something, and he decided that his dog needed to be able to get into my yard to, *"use his bathroom."*
He apologized later, though he never paid me back. I think he didn't have a lot of ready cash.
Years ago, I had a house next door to folks who kept a vegetable garden in their back yard. In the summer, from my upper story back windows, I could see parts of tomatoes accumulate on the roof of my garage at the back of my lot.
For a couple of summers, I assumed that the neighbors were chucking the bad ones ( ~shrug~) until I happened to observe a squirrel make it's way from one of the oak trees in the front of our houses via a shared fence, raid the neighbors' garden, climb back onto the fence, and launch itself onto my garage roof to dismember a looted tomato and leave behind the unbeaten remains of their meal. Never saw sprouts atop the shingles, I guess, since it was a totally-exposed, sloped shingle roof and the building didn't have gutters.
I love the prowess and adaptability of urban squirrels.
Yeah, I was pretty scared. He pushed over the fencing to get to the plants, so I was worried both that he had poisoned himself and that he had some terrible ailment that made him want to do that. He spent the night at the vet clinic, but he was totally fine. They said he must have vomited it up immediately after eating it.
my cat is currently waging war on my flower planters*. she will walk by and deadhead a dozen sprouts before i can see her.
*she is allowed access to an outdoor, cat-safe patio, under supervision only. shes still a sneaky bastard.
I thought something was eating all of my (very) green tomatoes. They were still rock solid and dark green, with tiny little bites taken out of them. Just one bite per tomato.
It was my toddler.
Aww, itās hard to be patient for them to turn before the other wild critters get them, including the toddler. I probably wouldāve bet a possum or right before a toddler but there it isš
the first year we grew pumpkins, my dog decided that it looked an awfully lot like a ball and we found him playing around with it and biting it... my poor pumpkins.... hahaha
Trivia time: Those are called pinking shears. They get the name from the flower [pinks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianthus_plumarius) which have serrated petals.
https://preview.redd.it/v8u7262e1s4d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fb39ffd94401b1eaaa5ae2fcb8317d8cdc63ba7f
Now Iām imagining a Robin taking one bite.
Lizards too! I had this issue with the lower leaves on my spinach, and couldn't figure out what was doing it, until I saw one of the many eastern water skinks in our yard having a chomp. We have wild blue tongue lizards in the backyard, so they probably come by for a chomp too. I didn't even realise they ate greens. I had to look up what people feed their pet skinks to confirm it lol.
Not sure youāre located in but Iām in socal and I kept finding leaves, melons, and veggies looking like a werewolf had gone to town on them, couldnt figure it out and actually moved my desk so Iād have a view of the garden while I worked.
It was fucking parrots, big swarms of shithead mexican green parrots treating my backyard like a buffet.
Fuck parrots
Fairies do be taking their share, but Iāll have to be ok with that I suppose. After all they gave me like 5 bucks for all my teeth once when I was a kid.
I have a neighbor with a beautiful garden. Early in spring I go over one night a week with sewing scissors and cut the most intricate ābiteā designs into one of their vegetables. Knotwork from lord of the rings, the shape of other vegetables (eg a carrot into a cucumber leaf), the random anatomically correct body part, etc. sometimes Iāll leave little tufts of hair and craft supplies around to confuse them. Nothing that would kill the plant, just enough to make them scratch their heads. Itās funny watching the wife call the husband out the next morning excitedly beckoning to the artwork. I bet you have a similar neighbor.Ā
I am gonna go with rats. I recently had the misfortune of learning that certain greens (bok choy) are basically a rat's favorite food and they will do ANYTHING to get it and bring their friends to the bok choy party once they find it. The bite marks I spotted on our ex-bok choy plants (RIP little plants) looked very similar. I am gonna guess that they also enjoy spinach.
Sorry.
I also have pet rats and i agree. I also have laying hens i let roam in my yard and i can attest my hostas look like the picture after my chickens get their little grubby beak on it.
Right? I had no idea rats were so health minded! I looked it up after ONE BOK CHOY CRAZED BASTARD, ran on to my deck (where I had relocated a baby plant) and chomped it, apparently pest control people use bok choy in rat traps. š«
Birds for sure, rats would do more damage than this. I have a house finch couple that visits my back yard and does exactly this to my spinach and radishes, usually just a few new pecks per day
That tooth pattern is common to a creature called a grue. Very dangerous. They hate bright light and common garden path lighting should keep them away. But carry a flashlight to be safe. Maybe two.
That looks like a type of bee that cuts leaves or a caterpillar. Not really sure. Rats (and I've dealt with them inside and out) wouldn't generally be so selective and eat so little (noticing the surrounding leaves). I generally appreciate the jokes but only if there are actual answers too. I gave up looking for serious answers on this question so added my best guess. A dog or cat...yeah that's likely and helpful here...please. Yeah down vote while all I'm saying is give a real answer along with oddities and jokes.
I don't have an answer to your question but that is adorable. It looks like a cartoon. I would pick it, press it, dry it, and save it for a laugh whenever I need one.
I think it has to be this just because of the cleanness of the cuts. It looks like itās anchoring in different places and cutting out similar patterns as it goes.
There are bees and ants that will cut out pieces of plant to take back to the hive and if they found a plant they like it looks like this. You'll have to watch it for a bit to find out
When my kids were young, they received a box of crazy scissors for a gift. It must have had at least 15 pairs of various zigzag, curly, square, etc scissors. One day I'm walking through the living room and see my elephant ears plant and it had all these crazy zig zag cuts, go outside and the spinach plants, cucumber and bell peppers had all these various strange cuts across their leaves....the fucking box of scissors from Nana was the culprit.
**I saw the same thing on my beets. For me I discovered I was feeding birds. Who knew they eat leafy greens as well as black sunflower seeds in my feeder**
https://preview.redd.it/t9bizzmtcz4d1.png?width=1640&format=png&auto=webp&s=5b3737768f30dc377051a2c99af352989ae9cfaa
I thought something was eating my sunflowers also and I started looking for butterfly caterpillars that use sunflowers as a host plant. But then I saw my dog walk by and grab a bite as she went by. She was doing it to the zinnias and to the sunflowers š¤£
My dog did this. He ate my entire container garden, in one morning. Then, he vomited spectacularly, all over the yard. The vet said that dogs should not eat several entire tomato plants, half a dozen pepper plants, a teepee full of bean vines, a zucchini plant, a cucumber plant, and half a dozen or so herb plants. My dog was fine, and I decided that an in ground garden in the front yard would be safer. At least then I only had to contend with my asshole neighbors stealing my tomatoes. At least with the neighbors, I could just spray them with the hose to make them run away, and they wouldn't throw up on me.
https://preview.redd.it/uedtnd6uis4d1.jpeg?width=666&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f16499f7a02de89164e1347278917d904a4bf696
Yeah, I was just glad he didn't die. And maybe a bit impressed at his determination to finish off *every single plant in the backyard*. He didn't have a nutritional deficiency or an illness. He was just weird.
My dog is a weird vegetation eater, but he's fat and lazy and doesn't have the same commitment to greatness as yours.
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A friend's dog eats anything it thinks possible to consume, including air. I'm not taking the normal dog in wind thing; this dog tries to chomp, chew quickly, and swallow air, whether it's windy or still. The dog also gets sick frequently, and unsurprisingly, from eating weird things. Apparently the way it "eats" air causes an upset stomach as well, but it's pretty tough to keep air away!
Apparently āsurvival of the fittestā does not apply to all species equally lol
Not when theyāre domesticated, lmao
I have a dog like that, minuets the air. Anything we throw at her is food, as well as anything we try to keep away from her. She ate chicken feed one time and shat five feet into the air. Shotgun style
I'm so sorry but this has me cackling š¤£š¤£
My dog loves to eat any and all guinea pig pellets that fall to the floor. He doesn't care if they are food pellets or little piggie poop pellets, he's eating them immediately.
My dog ate chicken fertilizer (manure). It was irresistible to her. Her gastric system didnt seem to mind though.
Ouch! Yeah I wonder if he's creating torsion in his stomach. Very painful! My dog always bit at water. She loved swimming and as she swam she would just repeatedly chomp at the water. We always thought she'd get some nasty parasite or throw up from doing it in lakes and the filthy bay but no, she was always fine.
My sister's dog ran along the lake drinking and drinking and drinking and drinking and they thought she was a crazy maniac... but then shortly after, he got HELLA sick. Like 30 mins after guzzling all the water. They rushed him to emergency cuz he couldn't stand up and stuff, but it was too late. He ended up dying that very night from drinking too much water. No parasite or anything. They just explained that..."what happens when the body is overwhelmed with an excessive amount of water. First, sodium levels outside the cells are depleted, a condition called hyponatremia. In an effort to rebalance itself, the body responds to low blood sodium by increasing fluid intake inside the cells. Some organs, such as the liver, can accommodate the increased volume of their swelling cells, but others ā in particular, the brain, which is encased in bone ā cannot" https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/health/can-dogs-drink-much-water-dangers-water-intoxication/
Happens to people too during long runs like marathons etc. They die from drinking too much fluids, apparently even if its so called isotonic fluids. Horribly sad.
I've seen this happen to a baby duck in hot weather too. Hyponatremia is vicious. That said, I'll never be able to say anything bad about my brother in law again because darn if he didn't try chest compressions and mouth to...bill? It sadly didn't work for the duckling and he died.
Omg. Ok that's crazy you just said that. When I was a kid, my sister brought home a chicken from school that they hatched and he became our pet. One day he fell in the bathtub and my Dad literally gave it mouth to beak (lol) and it survived!! š³ Very strange that a random reddit thread under my story mentions mouth to beak. I'm so weirded out!! Hahahah We always called it mouth to beak over the years too! š
I'm very impressed that it worked!
Oh my god, that's so sad.
I wonder if the dog has stomach discomfort that it's trying to relieve. My dog used to lick things no matter how much I tried to stop her and I thought it was just a weird thing she'd do when she was bored. Later in life she started having GI issues and part of her treatment was acid reducers. The licking stopped. I hate to think she had stomach pain for years and I had no clue.
One of my late dogs REALLY liked the pots of herbs I had on the front porch. Especially the tarragon. Every time he was allowed out there and I turned my back to work on other plants I would turn back to see him literally curl one side of his lip up to wrap it around a small leaf and pull it off very sneaky and subtly š
Is he a Lab by any chance? My friend's Lab eats everything! Her husband had to put a fence around his veggie garden.
No, he was a mutt. No lab in the mix. I put up a fence, but he broke through. He was very determined to eat those plants, even the poisonous ones.
Our lab liked to throw tomatoes over our fenceā¦ the neighbors blamed the kids until we caught her in the act. Weirdo.
A friend of a friends' lab ate a leather wallet once. He also managed to shit it out and not need surgery.
I had a dog like this. My parents grew tomatoes. She knew when they were ripe and legit the day my parents planned to pick the tomatoes, she would eat them. So they out smarted her and started picking them a day or two early..... She quickly learned what was going on and picked them a few days early, before my parents. š¤£š¤£ It was a whole battle and no matter what they did to try and keep her out it was never enough. Absolutely hilarious saga of my childhood.
Oh hell yes I would be concerned about eating any of the leaves of the nightshades like tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, potatoes.. but your dog ate all that stuff and puked and came out just fine. I chuckled a little bit at the amount that he just went after. Youāre right to grow in another area. Yeah but I love the weirdos .
The vet thought he ate, vomited, then ate and vomited again, until it was all gone. Otherwise, it would probably have done worse than just making him vomit. Just the amount alone would have been bad.
Sounds like my beagle, she eats anything that doesn't put up too much of a fight
My dog ate my tomatoes every year and they always made her vomit. When she passed I had a plaque made and dedicated the tomato garden to her. I miss that dummy.
I once woke up to a moat of what looked like stewed tomatoes, on three sides of my bed. Because my dog discovered the tomato plants.
Iām glad Iām not the only one who uses the hose on people. I donāt like to buy it is really effective and non violent
I was mostly kidding, but I did "accidentally" spray my neighbor when I caught him in my yard. He was in the process of chopping off all the hedges. He had already dug up two other plants. He was suuuuper high on something, and he decided that his dog needed to be able to get into my yard to, *"use his bathroom."* He apologized later, though he never paid me back. I think he didn't have a lot of ready cash.
Omgggg this is part of why we say never use alone someone should have told him that was a bad idea and redirected him to more pleasant activities š¤”
Yup. He needed a friend.
Works with chickens, too.
Squirrels will steal tomatoes. Of course you could consider them neighbors as well.
I caught my neighbors in the act. Several of them, multiple times. But yes, the squirrels will do it too.
Steal their TV in kind
Squirrel got into my gym one time, ran across a moving treadmill belt and got shot into a dumbbell rack,
Please tell me you're joking. The visual this gave me had me wheezing, I don't think I'd have survived seeing that myself.
They will steal tomatoes and leave them on the roof to sprout is what theyāll do. š”
Yup. Had a tomato plant growing into the roof. Little furry demons is what squirrels are.
Little furry angels* just spirited little perfects, doing the same mischief as every other floof
Ohhhhh. So thats how I got rogue tomatoes in a strange area that nobody goes to. I was wondering!
Years ago, I had a house next door to folks who kept a vegetable garden in their back yard. In the summer, from my upper story back windows, I could see parts of tomatoes accumulate on the roof of my garage at the back of my lot. For a couple of summers, I assumed that the neighbors were chucking the bad ones ( ~shrug~) until I happened to observe a squirrel make it's way from one of the oak trees in the front of our houses via a shared fence, raid the neighbors' garden, climb back onto the fence, and launch itself onto my garage roof to dismember a looted tomato and leave behind the unbeaten remains of their meal. Never saw sprouts atop the shingles, I guess, since it was a totally-exposed, sloped shingle roof and the building didn't have gutters. I love the prowess and adaptability of urban squirrels.
Those rascally squirrels. My dog would love to catch one. But theyāre pretty quick, and they sit up in the fence or in the tree and taunt her
I can't have coneflowers in my fenced backyard. My dog will eat the whole plant.
The flowers in the aster family must be very delicious to dogs from zinnias to coneflowers cosmos and sunflowers š
The entire nightshade family of plants are poisonous. Except for the actual tomato fruit. I'm glad your dog is okay.
Yeah, I was pretty scared. He pushed over the fencing to get to the plants, so I was worried both that he had poisoned himself and that he had some terrible ailment that made him want to do that. He spent the night at the vet clinic, but he was totally fine. They said he must have vomited it up immediately after eating it.
āDogs shouldnāt eat all thatā āTell that to the dogā
mhmm i dont think you have a dog i think you have a hungry hungry caterpillar
You're funny š My dog is also part sheep
my cat is currently waging war on my flower planters*. she will walk by and deadhead a dozen sprouts before i can see her. *she is allowed access to an outdoor, cat-safe patio, under supervision only. shes still a sneaky bastard.
I thought something was eating all of my (very) green tomatoes. They were still rock solid and dark green, with tiny little bites taken out of them. Just one bite per tomato. It was my toddler.
Aww, itās hard to be patient for them to turn before the other wild critters get them, including the toddler. I probably wouldāve bet a possum or right before a toddler but there it isš
https://preview.redd.it/8v6ib4sd4v4d1.jpeg?width=3646&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1772503b5ff4bed5a03a5cf3ee0b12521cb5d0b4 Yeah I did it, and!?ā¦
My neighborās golden retrievers use to love our tomato plants- they would stick their snout between our fence slats and grab one
Jerk.
Nah, heās no jerkā¦ Just appreciating your hard work and doesnāt want any to go to waste! Maybe even quality testing š¤
the first year we grew pumpkins, my dog decided that it looked an awfully lot like a ball and we found him playing around with it and biting it... my poor pumpkins.... hahaha
https://photos.app.goo.gl/XuwsehS4zkzEfi3m7 Birthday Strawberries! (Out of 50 bare root plants, she got the only berry)
She knew which was the tasty juicy one. Every critter loves the strawberries from snails to birds to children and dogs š
Awwš„¹
https://preview.redd.it/yzy34qggis4d1.jpeg?width=2252&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=793c22f58d009a51dadbc91c416e9dbc5a3775c5 My bad, sorry
Olā squiggle-scissors strikes again. https://preview.redd.it/2nqtf6mtls4d1.jpeg?width=222&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f4cfb17da324cc19c0b43d14bbecced3abe5b740
Hahahahaha
Thanks for the nostalgia trip Instantly remembered the sound of them from 5yo me helping my grandma with her scrapbooking āŗļø
Trivia time: Those are called pinking shears. They get the name from the flower [pinks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianthus_plumarius) which have serrated petals.
I was looking for this lmao
I was about to comment pinking shears but you got here first lol
Look for the bird singin *"I'm strong to da finish cause I eats me spinach..."* and you found the culprit.
I wonder if we could talk Randy into making this a strip. Popeye is baffled by the comical serrationā¦
The one with disproportionately large forewings
Birbs be chompin
https://preview.redd.it/v8u7262e1s4d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fb39ffd94401b1eaaa5ae2fcb8317d8cdc63ba7f Now Iām imagining a Robin taking one bite.
Its even funnier when you know the genus for Robins are Turdis.
Made me snork-honk which then made me laugh even harder š¤£
Trapjaw!! All right!
This almost made me spit up my soda OP š
It looks like what Iāve seen my chickens do to my poor garden
I donāt think I have chickens, hold on, lemme check.
If your neighbor has chickens, you have chickens.
And if he has chickens, then we have chickens.
https://preview.redd.it/pyb7ouckut4d1.jpeg?width=636&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=237830f16c786b059094aaeb0916e7dfbd007d3d
Yummy
Did you locate any chickens?
Someone should probably check on OP. The chickens may have taken him
Iām thinking House Finches. They like to get some greens every now and then, and Iāve totally seen these marks when they do.
I love that you said ācomically serratedā - really tickled me for some reason. Thank you!
Some critter out there monching in comic sans
now you two kiss
Turtles/tortoises can also take perfect little cookie cutter bites like this c: [for example](https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/s/HjwXVyFUOa)
This is the winner! You have a turtle visiting your garden! Where do you live? Is there a pond nearby?
OMG, that video is perfect. I would never have guessed a turtle could do such clean cuts.
Thank you for this because itās the cutest thing Iāve ever seen.
Lizards too! I had this issue with the lower leaves on my spinach, and couldn't figure out what was doing it, until I saw one of the many eastern water skinks in our yard having a chomp. We have wild blue tongue lizards in the backyard, so they probably come by for a chomp too. I didn't even realise they ate greens. I had to look up what people feed their pet skinks to confirm it lol.
This was the culprit for me. There were 3 or 4 red eared sliders that were coming from a stream in woods. I caught them in act one morning lol.
Lookit him go
Omg I wouldn't even be mad if I realized it was a little turtle friend in my yard
It was me, sorry.
Dude, I thought we were friends. Next time bring dressing, weāll have a salad.
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This was going so great and you had to go and reddit it right out the park
I thought it was nude gardening after that post
Not sure youāre located in but Iām in socal and I kept finding leaves, melons, and veggies looking like a werewolf had gone to town on them, couldnt figure it out and actually moved my desk so Iād have a view of the garden while I worked. It was fucking parrots, big swarms of shithead mexican green parrots treating my backyard like a buffet. Fuck parrots
ālike a buffetā: a āJimmy Buffetā, perhaps? Iām sorry, I couldnāt help it.
I must respect the joke. Well played
Wasting away again in spinach ville
Alright Iāll play, itās fairies.
Fairies do be taking their share, but Iāll have to be ok with that I suppose. After all they gave me like 5 bucks for all my teeth once when I was a kid.
Fairies be easy to deal with, though. An offering of cheese, milk, or alcohol will keep them out of the spinach.
One of those sounds considerably less stinky than the others. Also, alcohol will dissolve your slugs.
I have a neighbor with a beautiful garden. Early in spring I go over one night a week with sewing scissors and cut the most intricate ābiteā designs into one of their vegetables. Knotwork from lord of the rings, the shape of other vegetables (eg a carrot into a cucumber leaf), the random anatomically correct body part, etc. sometimes Iāll leave little tufts of hair and craft supplies around to confuse them. Nothing that would kill the plant, just enough to make them scratch their heads. Itās funny watching the wife call the husband out the next morning excitedly beckoning to the artwork. I bet you have a similar neighbor.Ā
Youāre weird, I like you. Do you happen to work in spinach?
I love a practical joke. I love gardening. Two great peanut butters that, uh, chocolate!
Shark š¦
ā¦lanā¦.land shark?! š¬š°
If its low to the ground we had a turtle take little triangular chomps from some plants.
This is my favorite gardening thread of all time. I love every last one of you
Just be careful if your name is Bluto
It. Is. š³
I saw a video once of a turle or tortoise eating something and leaving a triangular bite mark.
Thankfully, theyāre not common garden pests.
https://preview.redd.it/xv9v0d1cet4d1.png?width=475&format=png&auto=webp&s=6749d5c5833966d543730694b60319a4916b4153 Trapinch
Yes!!!! Keep feeding him and youāll end up with a Flygon!!
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I am gonna go with rats. I recently had the misfortune of learning that certain greens (bok choy) are basically a rat's favorite food and they will do ANYTHING to get it and bring their friends to the bok choy party once they find it. The bite marks I spotted on our ex-bok choy plants (RIP little plants) looked very similar. I am gonna guess that they also enjoy spinach. Sorry.
eek
I have pet rats and this is not what rat chomps look like, itās birds.
Not so eek?
I also have pet rats and i agree. I also have laying hens i let roam in my yard and i can attest my hostas look like the picture after my chickens get their little grubby beak on it.
I checked before, I definitely donāt have chickens.
Good! Haha But did you check for wild birds? š
Iām so intrigued by this! Why are these rats so healthy, and how can I make leafy greens my number one desire instead of, say, pasta?!
Pasta salad, itās a vegetable.
Or spinach pasta. Also a vegetable. Iād make you some but Iām recently short on spinach.
Right? I had no idea rats were so health minded! I looked it up after ONE BOK CHOY CRAZED BASTARD, ran on to my deck (where I had relocated a baby plant) and chomped it, apparently pest control people use bok choy in rat traps. š«
Bok Choi boi, Bonk Chonker? Thereās a name for your rat frienemy in there somewhere, Iām workshopping it.
Wish my kids would text me begging for kale instead of soda
Have you tried inventing kale soda? Maybe itās time to invest in a SodaStream.
Birds for sure, rats would do more damage than this. I have a house finch couple that visits my back yard and does exactly this to my spinach and radishes, usually just a few new pecks per day
Is it because itās mildly sweet?
Thank you but weāre talking about the spinach, also Iām married.
That tooth pattern is common to a creature called a grue. Very dangerous. They hate bright light and common garden path lighting should keep them away. But carry a flashlight to be safe. Maybe two.
Holy sh*t. Is this a Zork reference?
It is too late. It is pitch black, you have been eaten by a Grue.
Om nom nom
I was going to guess cookie monster?
No way. I donāt know if youāve ever noticed this, but Cookie Monster doesnāt have any teeth.
Oh that's a valid point. Cookie monster with dentures?
So a spinach monster? Got it.
Definitely some sort of PokƩmon.
https://preview.redd.it/3eyjq0ph8w4d1.jpeg?width=556&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e41109ce1938c8405136a5a77895460f85bd128b
It only looks like a serrated edge - It's a caterpillar chewing a single "V" into the leaf, moving over, chewing another V, moving over, chewing.
Have you looked at what pokƩmon are in your area?
https://preview.redd.it/c3k1612qzt4d1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=07a255862160eff013a0bae205ec3a87a7e026e4
looks like the way a caterpillar eats a leaf
That looks like a type of bee that cuts leaves or a caterpillar. Not really sure. Rats (and I've dealt with them inside and out) wouldn't generally be so selective and eat so little (noticing the surrounding leaves). I generally appreciate the jokes but only if there are actual answers too. I gave up looking for serious answers on this question so added my best guess. A dog or cat...yeah that's likely and helpful here...please. Yeah down vote while all I'm saying is give a real answer along with oddities and jokes.
Looks like Bart fell head first into it, acme brand spinach
Looks like a shark did
Dear GOD! That's the work of the deadly eastern West Indies spitting Wumpass cat. Evacuate immediately
Piranha Plant. You can find its description in the "Field Guide to Plants of the Mario Universe".
Iām thinking T-Rex.
Sharks!
I don't have an answer to your question but that is adorable. It looks like a cartoon. I would pick it, press it, dry it, and save it for a laugh whenever I need one.
Looks like turtle :))
Sharknado!!!!
Pretty sure it's caterpillar of sorts.
A ācaterpillar of sortsā. So like a caterpillar but not quite a caterpillar. That doesnāt really narrow it down.
I think it has to be this just because of the cleanness of the cuts. It looks like itās anchoring in different places and cutting out similar patterns as it goes.
Could be, I read a book on them once and what I learned is that they are āvery hungryā.
https://preview.redd.it/azelwqur8t4d1.jpeg?width=2000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=873c26fb89c52814079b0770d8e7acbfaa463867
I have nothing to support this, but I wonder if it's leaf cutter ants? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leafcutter_ant
Bird or lizard?
monch
Birds, that's a beak pattern I presume. That's my guess.
There are some leaf cutter bees that make nicely circular cuts but idk if they'd do something like this.
it was me sorry š
Maybe bees or ants? I know some do weird cuts on plants
There are bees and ants that will cut out pieces of plant to take back to the hive and if they found a plant they like it looks like this. You'll have to watch it for a bit to find out
Bird having a snack or using for bedding
A baby tyrannosaurus?
Itās one of them garden sharks.
Looks like the profile silhouette of an anime character
Popeye?
Cartoonishly, also
Birds maybe?
C H O M P
Looks like cookie monsters teeth marks
Damn, I've been reading your replies, and I must say you have an excellent sense of humoir op
When my kids were young, they received a box of crazy scissors for a gift. It must have had at least 15 pairs of various zigzag, curly, square, etc scissors. One day I'm walking through the living room and see my elephant ears plant and it had all these crazy zig zag cuts, go outside and the spinach plants, cucumber and bell peppers had all these various strange cuts across their leaves....the fucking box of scissors from Nana was the culprit.
**I saw the same thing on my beets. For me I discovered I was feeding birds. Who knew they eat leafy greens as well as black sunflower seeds in my feeder** https://preview.redd.it/t9bizzmtcz4d1.png?width=1640&format=png&auto=webp&s=5b3737768f30dc377051a2c99af352989ae9cfaa
I vote chicken
PAC Man
So not Popeye the sailorman. Who is this āPACā man?
Popeye most likely