Some serendipity was involved, but it seems to have worked for me. :-)

I noticed tiny round "shot holes" on the lower leaves of a couple of my tomato plants. Subsequently I saw a tiny black bug that jumped away when I reached for it. These are the classic symptoms of the flea beetle. I was debating whether or not to spray with insecticidal soap.

In the interim of deciding what to do, I planted two eggplant plants. A couple of days later I checked on the eggplants to see how they were doing. Well, I guess flea beetles really like and prefer eggplant because there must have been 50 of them on each plant. My dilema was over. I broke out the insecticidal soap and gave both the eggplants and some of the tomato plants which had been affected a treatment.

This morning when I checked I couldn't find any flea beetles on the eggplants and only 1 on one tomato plant. I didn't have time to do a thorough search but things look good now.

Interesting how that worked out isn't it? :-)

Comments? Should I also post this on the tomato growing forum?