Chipmunks in the garden may be cute at first sight, but when they start to eat your tomatoes, they are nothing but a pest. Chipmunks can destroy your tomato crop by eating the fruits right off the vine, and the tomatoes that they do not consume are often spoiled by the rodents' excrement.

How do I keep squirrels and chipmunks from eating my tomatoes?

Wrap individual fruits on tomato, eggplant, or other vegetable plants in small pieces of bird netting. Squirrels seem to be most interested in stealing tomatoes just as they ripen, so wrap the mature fruits and ignore the green ones.

Are tomatoes good for chipmunks?

Ripe tomatoes are a good incentive. Typically they eat the bottom out of the tomatoes closest to the ground, but will work higher up when necessary. The solution I found were 2 small Have-a-Heart traps (wire cages with trapdoor at each end) baited with chunks of tomatoes from the damaged ones.