Garden Pests

Leaf hoppers mostly.  I've been picking them off individually each day for the past three days.  They've decided my potato plants are tasty.  The potato plants are still doing well despite the minor infestation, however, and I see little yellow eggs on the underside of some of the leaves which I /think/ are lady bug eggs.  I'm keeping an eye on them to see if I'm right.  If they are, that's a good thing for those plants.  If not, I may need to eradicate them depending on what they are.

The spinach is doing awesome things.  It's sparse in its insect plagues, a healthy green colour, and getting bushier and fuller every day.

The tomato plants are riddled with holes, hardly growing if at all, and overall I just don't see them making it.  Carrots finally look like they have true "tops" albeit teensy ones.  Peppers finally sprouted but are not looking healthy enough for me to be excited.  And the green onions are kinda washed out looking.  They don't look happy, but are still growing.  I wonder if their section had too much lime?  Possible, as that's the corner the big pile was in.  Maybe a little manure this fall will help the soil for next year's crops.

Inside, I've got a couple surviving sprigs of coriander that are very nice, growing tall and strong.  I planted one of my last tomato seedlings in with them along with the sweet marjoram seedlings.  Then I put the basil and the remaining green onion seedling in with the inside green onions, which are thickening some and looking like they need a trim.  A third box is going to get started for the remainder of the tomato seedlings.  I can't imagine that they'll survive and produce inside, but even if they just grow bigger, they'll look nicer than the poor little things outside.

The Orange Mint is still in its pot.  I need to get it transplanted but worry I'll kill it.  LOL

Oh!  And I saw a mottled tortoise beetle on a potato plant the other day but didn't manage to get a good photo of it over the two days it was there.  I went out later to work on that, but it had disappeared.  The one photo I do have is just clear enough for me to have found out what it was online.  Oh, well.  I want to know when I can start eating the spinach!!

~w