I planted a bunch of really pretty tulips last fall and I think it's a mole or vole came along underground and ate all but two of them. UGH. What can I do to prevent this from happening again?

Never saw a hornworm in 26 years growing tomatoes, that is until year 27. Didn't even know what one looked like and had never heard of them before either. Year 27 was last year and anyone who wonders how quickly they can destroy a tomato plant, trust me, it doesn't take very long. This was a tiny tim on Monday. 14 inches tall. It rained all day Tuesday, so was not outside to check anything or even see anything that was going on. Same tiny tim 9AM Wednesday morning. There was nothing but a few stems left and a couple of tomatoes. Luckily though, there was enough left in the season, half of August and all of Sept. for regrowth and toms before the frost set in. regrowing tiny tim This was on the other side of the yard, so none of the other tomato plants where affected, but trust me, i was going through those plants with a flashlight several times a day looking for any sign of them and found none. By the way, those hornworms measured 4 inches long and there where 2 of them on that poor little plant. So far this year no sign of them. A question though. My grandparents had a summer veggie and flower farm and my grandfather always swore by companion planting of marigolds and tomato plants. He always had marigolds surrounding his tom plants. and he had at least 150 tomato plants. I've always done the same thing when I plant them in the ground and when I use pots for the toms, I always plant a small growing marigold in the pot, right at the edge of the plant. I've never had an insect problem before in now 28 years of growing my toms, until last year. That one tiny tim didn't have a marigold in the pot with it, all the others had marigolds surrounding them and in pots with them and they never got any hornworms. Does anyone think that the marigolds help to keep the hornworm away or was last year just a coincidence and I've just been lucky all these years? Fran

It is an adolescent wood chuck! I suspected as much and so set a Han-a -hart trap for him but the only animal that took the bait (lettuce) was one of my dogs. He must be able to climb over a f foot high rabbit fence to get into the garden. The two kinds of repellent I have used are useless. Is there a better bait I can use? Is there a better way to keep him out of my garden? (Build a 6 ft fence (and have him or Mexico pay for it?)

There are lots of variations on this kind of wasp trap: https://www.bobvila.com/articles/homemade-wasp-trap/ I made several that I hung in my fruit trees, using not two-liter bottles but plain 20 oz ones. Punched holes in the top of the sides, and ran a big nail through to keep the trap together, then used wire around that nail to make a loop for use in hanging the traps in my trees. When the traps fill up I can remove the nail (I use barn nails, they're about 6" long, maybe you have other comparable materials handy), disassemble, clean, and refill. Wasps love Coke, and it smells enough to bring them in fast. But plain old sugar water like you'd use in a hummingbird feeder will do just fine. Lots of people mention cider vinegar, banana peel (huh??!), etc. Wasps are always after me when I have either red or white wine in the back yard, at certain times of year. I have to cover my glass when I put it down. There's no absolute rule about what bait to use. The point is to make it sweet and if convenient fragrant, and drown the nasties. I hung one of these in each of my apple trees and presto, no more fruit damage.