Outdoor pests!

[Tyga]

Im assuming pic 1 is from catipilars or slugs?... No clue whats going on in pic 2. I have been spraying them down with Bioneem, Magic green one a week so far. Using ortho slug repellant on the surface of the soil also.

 

[Al Botross]

if you can afford it mulch with ceder chips up to 5 ft out from trunk and tie a panty hose sock filled with mothballs around the trunk

 

[Granger2]

tyga,
This is definitely NOT caterpillers, nor slugs, nor snails. They eat from the edge inward. They eat/consume the tissue. They don't blemish it. I don't know what this is, just what it ain't. Good luck. -granger

 

[Granger2]

tyga,
This is definitely NOT caterpillers, nor slugs, nor snails. They eat from the edge inward. They eat/consume the tissue. They don't blemish it. I don't know what this is, just what it ain't. Good luck. -granger

 

[Tyga]

tyga,
This is definitely NOT caterpillers, nor slugs, nor snails. They eat from the edge inward. They eat/consume the tissue. They don't blemish it. I don't know what this is, just what it ain't. Good luck. -granger

Thanks man, then i have no clue! Def looks like pests and not Ph or anything... Not all plants have this going on though either.

 

[SeaMaiden]

I've never seen anything like that, but I'm thinking barrier methods might be your best bet here. Horticultural oil, Neem, stuff like that. I'm sure it's a pest, not disease, although in the 2nd pic it looks like whatever's been eating on the plants has shat all over them, too.

I see spit-bug foam on one of the stems in the background. I bet that's part of your problem.

Also, this year has been the Year For the Mulch Lesson. My mulch lesson is this--keep it away from tasty plants because it hides the things that eat them up! How was this lesson learned? By wood chips and straw bales compared to an unmulched bed and my beans.

I love beans, so I grow a lot of them. Bugs love beans! So I lose a lot of them. But I've lost NO beans in the bed with no mulch. The straw bale and wood chipped beans are practically decimated.

That blot of foam is telling, or suggesting, at the very least.

 

[Granger2]

Looks like a sucking insect. Pierces, sucks, leaves a blemish that then turns brown. Maybe that'll help in your research. -granger

 

[Sparrow707]

Maybe a bacterial spot infection? Organicide should do the trick

 

[Tyga]

Heres another recent pic... have been spraying with bioneem and organicide... Still not sure whats going on...

 

[Granger2]

Tyga,
I seem to recall that there is a nocturnal flying ant that does this type of damage. Can't remember the name. Very hard to control. Check out GardenWeb.com Good luck. -granger