One of Lyman's funniest trials keeping a tomato garden is squirrels stealing his string. For many years, he would keep a roll of jute twine on a nail on a post handy for tying up indeterminate tomato plants (not a bush variety).

Then the squirrels started taking off with his string to build nests. We found one roll next to a pine tree, with the string going up as far as we could see.