Daily Photo: The Foul-Mouthed Gardener

I check on my vegetable garden every other day to ensure adequate water, harvest where appropriate and troubleshoot.  Today I noticed that one of my bok choy plants had been decimated and a few chunks had been taken out of a few tomato leaves.  This is significant because I have the entire thing covered with mosquito netting.  There are very few ways bugs can get in.  But get in they did.

I fumed as I unfastened and lifted the netting to investigate.  I pruned the injured leaves and watered heavily, looking for and suspecting beetles.  Nothing.  Then, out of the corner of my eye, curled up just next to another bok choy plant: a fat caterpillar.

 
The nerve! It thought it wouldn't be found, blending in with the wet soil and the leaves. "What the!?!"  It is a good thing no one was around.  As I launched it like a rocket across the yard, I let it rip. "Bite me! Son of a biscuit!"

And then.  And then?  I found another one clinging to one of the tomato plants.

"Motherfudgecake! Frickety Frick!" and that one went flying too.

And I felt better.