Was reminded again today that it's much easier to stake up tomato plants if you do it when they're small. As opposed to waiting until they're big and sprawling all over the garden. Still I think I did an okay job with most of them. And I gotta say for as much as we've neglected them the last month, there are a ton of tomatoes out there. Now the race is on to see if we get to eat them or if the squirrel or rabbit or whatever the hell it is out there will get 'em first. While I was staking them up this afternoon I saw an almost ripe tomato on the ground about 5 feet from the raised bed. I suppose it might have fallen off while I was messing with the stakes or with the soaker hose. But there were obvious teeth marks on it so even if the varmint didn't pull it off the vine, it was definitely trying to eat it. I tried to impress on our dog Jane that she needs to do a better job of running off critters that are trying to mess with my tomato plants. But I don't think she was really grasping the concept.