I wanna cry
By BarBaraPrz
@BarBaraPrz (50602)
St. Catharines, Ontario
August 12, 2025 4:54pm CST
Yesterday, I had two lovely ears of corn on the stalks in my garden. I thought I'd leave them for one more day,
Today, nothing!
Something got them.
I don't know if someone came in my yard and took them or if it was the work of killer ants... because there was a swarm of them at the site of one missing ear.
At least I was able to pick some green beans and cucumbers for my dinner.
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@LadyDuck (486346)
• Italy
13 Aug
@BarBaraPrz I remember when one of my pumpkins grew by the other side of my fence and disappeared.
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@MarieCoyle (50373)
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14 Aug
Oh, I am sure sorry. I was waiting on several lovely large tomatoes to get riper before picking--and they disappeared! No one has ever stolen any of my garden produce before. Do I blame the geese? They have never eaten the tomatoes, either. But more are coming on so I am hopeful.
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@BarBaraPrz (50602)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
14 Aug
Oh my! If they were cherry tomatoes, I'd suspect birds or squirrels , but large ones? Sonethig with large hands...
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@BarBaraPrz (50602)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
14 Aug
@MarieCoyle Yes, you didn't put in all that work just for the heck of it: you wanted to eat fresh tomatoes.
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@MarieCoyle (50373)
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14 Aug
@BarBaraPrz
Yes, I think so as well...and someone with only two feet, not four. I have never had anything stolen from my yard or garden here. But I guess someone really, really wanted my pretty tomatoes. Whoever it was, has not returned for more, and that's a good thing. I want my tomatoes for my son and I to enjoy!!
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@allknowing (154166)
• India
13 Aug
Such tragedies are a regular in our garden - It is the birds that commit the crime. 
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@BarBaraPrz (50602)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
13 Aug
The birds kept getting the mulberries, then pooping purple poo all over, so I cut down the tree last summer.
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@allknowing (154166)
• India
13 Aug
@BarBaraPrz I do not mind birds eating the fruits but not the vegetables such as chilies.
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@LeaPea2417 (38647)
• Toccoa, Georgia
13 Aug
I'm sorry. Do you know what has happened to me for the first time ever this Season? It has nothing to do with garden vegetables. It has to do with growing sunflowers. In the past, I was able to grow sunflowers. This year, I grew some, but after some bloomed really nice, all of a sudden, I would go out to look and some creature would have bitten the heads off them! I was shocked. I am thinking squirrels may have done it.
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@BarBaraPrz (50602)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
14 Aug
Yup, squirrels ate mine last year.
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@DaddyEvil (160815)
• United States
13 Aug
We have a fat little squirrel that kept stealing the veggies I was growing on our front porch. I'm sorry something took your corn.
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@BarBaraPrz (50602)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
13 Aug
@DaddyEvil Mostly chestnut trees here.
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@BarBaraPrz (50602)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
13 Aug
Thanks. The squirrels around here like to plant things in my pots.
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@DaddyEvil (160815)
• United States
13 Aug
@BarBaraPrz You're welcome.
The squirrels do that here, too. I pull up walnut trees all the time.
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@AmbiePam (105504)
• United States
12 Aug
Oh, no. I am so sorry. I would bet it’s definitely animal related. My stepmom had some lovely corn, and she saw a crow get one, and something else got the other one because it was a clean “break”. A human couldn’t have gotten in her back yard to do it.
I’m glad your green beans and cucumbers made it. My great grandma grew the absolute best green beans; I imagine yours would stand up there with hers.
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@BarBaraPrz (50602)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
13 Aug
They could use some rain, though.
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@Traceyjayne (6202)
• United Kingdom
13 Aug
Oh dear, what a disappointment ! At least you got to pick green beans and cucumbers.
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@BarBaraPrz (50602)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
13 Aug
Years ago, I saw a squirrel take down the entire stalk, and there's lots of them around here, so you may be correct, Sherlock.
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@jefferson126 (3648)
• Shenzhen, China
13 Aug
Sorry about you lost ears of corn,maybe you should pick them yesterday.If someone took them away,they were terrible.
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