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Sun, May 26, 13 at 10:56
| Tomatoes have been in the ground for a couple weeks now, they are starting to look sickly. Please see pics. We also have these tiny brown bugs eating the plants, I believe they are flea beetles, as the jump away when you get close to them. Have been spraying with insecticidal soap, I read that the soap can burn the leaves, is this possible? It has also been cool and wet lately. Also having problems with a bell pepper plant. Thank you.
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| Looks like it is all just environmental damage to me - weird weather, maybe too early planting for this year, the spraying, etc. Many folks in zone 5 and 6 are finding they planted out way too early this year. As to flea beetles, the spray can do more potential damage than flea beetles do. Most of us just ignore them as they pose no real threat to the plants. Dave |
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| Thanks for your reply Dave. I think this year we planted way too early too. We got some real nice warm weather early, went to home depot and they had beautiful plants, I guess I got to excited lol. I tried those green water surrounds for the tomato plants for the first time this year, maybe I took them off to early, it's only been in the 60's during the day, down to 40's at night, and wet. |
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| The flea beetles, if it was them, did lot's of damage to my zucchini plant, as to why I started spraying everything. Almost lost the plant. |
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