Most likely culprit are slugs/snails. I'd go out at night as others have mentioned and pull them off your plants and anywhere around the garden where you see them. Drop 'em in a bowl of soapy water. If you have boards or rocks as edging, they like to hide under those as well. Look under them and pick the slugs off and throw them in soapy water as well. Water only in the morning to allow the soil to dry out a bit before night. Slugs thrive in cool, high moisture conditions. I would also make use of beer traps as well. They aren't quite as effective as just physically killing them, but they still work, which is great since you can't be guarding your garden from slugs all the time. I'm dealing with a similar problem in my own garden. I expect to dramatically reduce the slug population by following these three practices as much as possible. Here is a link that might be useful: Slug control

Hoosier, I think you know where GD came from but if you've forgotten here's a wee tomato history of it. I saved seeds from Galina's Yellow which I'm sure you know, PL with deep gold cherries and I like it very much. Saved seeds gave rise to no plants with PL foliage but plants which each had different colored cherries such as red, pink, yellow, salmon and one I called ivory. This all happened shortly after Bill McDorman brought back Galina's and all the other Siberian ones and offered them at his website. At the same time my friend Steve Draper who lived in Utah was also seeing genetic instability with Galina and asked me to send him the best of what I had which is the one I called ivory b'c it was a very vigorous plant and the fruits had some of that grest taste of Galina. He liked it very much, named it Dr. Carolyn without telling me and I first found out that when I got my SSE YEarbook that year. At first it was throwing some red fruited plants but that stopped fairly soon. it also threw some pink fruited plants and an SSE member sent me seeds for what he called Dr. Carolyn Pink, which Darrel says he likes a lot as do some others. Dr. Carolyn mutated spontaneously to a green when ripe in Amy Goldman's Garden. I found that hard to believe and asked keith how that could happen and I still have the PM's he sent me which showed that it could happen. As to wild tomato genes in it? There are two scientists at the Geneva USDA station/Cornell who have been doing DNA sequencing on many different varieties and have found snippets of wild sequences in all of them. Esther Van der Knapp at OSU has found the same and I know you tracked her down at one point, this was after Scientific American had a cover picture of tomatoes and discussed the changes that lead to differences in fruit shape and size as part of the evolution of our domestic tomato.If you want to check their publications their names are Angela Baldi and Joanne, and I can't remember her last name without looking it up. So yes, I'm sure there are some wild species snips in Green Doctors, just as there are in all the other varieties that Joanne and Angela and Esther have found. QED. I've met both two times b'c Joanne has relatives in Glens Falls, which is near me, and they've stopped by on those trips, brought some of their publications as well as a huge poster board that had beem used at a conference. I first met Angela through Garden Web where she was searching for folks who had grown lots of OP heirlooms and that led to Craig LeHoullier and I both being listed as Consultants on their grant proposals to the Feds. To this day I have no idea whatsoever to explain the original genetic instability that both Steve and I saw with Galina that then led to the variety Dr. Carolyn that then led to Dr. Carolyn Pink that then led to Green Doctors and now Green Doctors Frosted which is a clear epidermis mutation from GD found independently by Neil Lockhart who is listing it in the 2010 SSE Yearbook and Jeff Casey in Canada who is listing it at his website with all his other tomato seeds for sale. Both Neil and Jeff were kind enough to send me a few seeds of GD Frosted which I offered in my annual seed offer elsewhere, now closed. While Tom Wagner has developed a couple of clear skinned GW ripes, I trialed Verde Claro for him back in the mid-90's, he's never formally released them and asked me if I would please not share seeds of Verde Claro except with Craig who was also supposed to trial all the varieties Tom sent, but didn't. So GD Frosted appears to be the first clear skinned variety GWR that has been made available to the public thru Neil Lockhart in the YEarbook, Jeff Casey at his website and the seeds I'm distributing thru my seed offer. Carolyn

Now, about that free psychoanalysis you promised me a few weeks back ... ******* I don't remember offering you any FREE consultation, but if I did the offer is still there. But, my fee for a standard 50 min hour is based on the number of tomato varieties a person is growing in any one year, such that it's a sliding scale and I know you'd qualify for a low rate. So you've got my e-mail addy and any time you want a shoulder or two to bolster you up and let it all hang out I'm here for you Bill. ( smile) Carolyn, who wonders if she could make a business out of this as long as tomatoes and associated issues were the sole topic allowed. LOL

At least it didn't get as hot as predicted. If we didn't need the rain so desperately it would have been near perfect the last couple of days. Around 30C with a light breeze, my ideal temps. Too good to be indoors. Now for some of that rain (without the cold) Got my fence up and spread several barrow loads of compost, tidied up the kids vegie gardens, fed and topped up mulch on various vegies, strawberries, pumpkins, etc and set up a watering system for some of the vegies. As for reading material, I like "who done its" and similar mystery types. Just finished Jonathon Kellerman's Therapy Saturday night. Not bad but a little slow. Have some more Kellerman to read yet, hopefully they're at least as good. I don't mind Kathy Reichs but Jeffery Deaver would have to be my favourite at the moment.