hi Sarah, yes, please add some woodchips

It’s a lesser colorado potatoe beetle. Do you have potatoe plants?

Wow!!!!

We are coming !!!

crunch crunch !!

they look ok to me. you may want to remove the flowers this year and have no fruit. next year, your plants will be more mature and stronger thus more productive

I will try to spray my tomato plants early with BAKING SODA (3 tbsp/gallon with little olive oil and drops of detergent) as a preventive measure to avoid blight ! thanks for the youtube links Cleide !

A few of my tomato plants have similar looking lower leaves--speckled brown dots. I dont think its blight. Blight occurs later in the season (when leaves are abundant). What aggravates blight is overcrowding with leaves, thus limited airflow. I read that one way to avoid blight is to make sure the lower third of your plant has ample airflow---this can be done by removing lower sets of leaves as your plant grows. Also this will lower chance of splashing spores onto the leaves when you water. Hope this is helpful. I am interested in organic ways to avoid also what to do when you have blight later. Thanks !!!!

what a great idea !we 'll be there