Ugh, please tell me I can fix this! (Update p.2)

[insiderart]

I think it's just from your environmental conditions. It should clear up as soon as the weather warms and the sun comes out.

Could be that all the rain has limited some nutrient uptake. I'd just wait it out. Doesn't look like disease or pests to me.

 

[GrowinVeggiesInSC]

Victory shall be mine! Look what I found in my search this morning!

I'm fairly sure this is a cucumber beetle larvae. I only found this one, so I am going to wait and see if this problem gets worse. Today is our first sunny day in forever, so I will have the time and motivation to go visit my plants and check up during the day. I'll see what else I can find out there.

On a positive note, I did see many green lacewings - hurray!

 

[vfem]

That is one stroke of luck to have caught it in the act... being so tiny and appearing to be the only one out at the time!!!

Now you found the issue you can solve it... I'm so happy for you.

Thanks you to you, I'm going out to search for what have been at my strawberries.... however, I'm pretty sure I know. So off to DE against those darn slugs. (They are my own worst enemy around here.)

 

[GrowinVeggiesInSC]

Good luck with the strawberry-eating slugs!
:bun

 

[GrowinVeggiesInSC]

Eeek! I saw two or three actual cucumber beetles in my yard today. I stumpled across this site that gives some helpful tips on how to get rid of the little buggers.
http://www.ghorganics.com/CucumberBeetles.htm
I think I might try making sticky traps.

 

[vfem]

Thank you for that link, I just LOVE that website... I use it for its companion planting methods as well. I came across 2 cuke beetles yesterday, but they were in my front garden hanging out on my tickseed plant?! Strange!

I planted the french marigolds in my veggie garden though... and several things of basil and thyme... I'm also adding dill in pots soon.

So far, the majority of the pests I've come across have been in my front yard garden. All I've battled in my veggie garden have been slugs!? (And chickens and ducks! LOL )

Fight them off girl... try some tansy or marigold in pots and lump them together in sections to see if that helps while you treat for them. It may help stop them from returning after to make a good kill off of the population.

 

[GrowinVeggiesInSC]

Yup, that's what I plan on doing. Pots of marigolds all around. Tansy, too, if I can find it. I already have basil seedlings growing in a different part of the yard, I will transplant them into pots and move them to the garden.
I am going to make the smart move and wait until tomorrow. I don't know how this works in other towns, but here in Charleston, EVERYONE flocks to the garden centers on holidays. Since I am still job-hunting, I can go during the week when everyone else is at work. (As Caroline Ingalls says in the Litte House books, "there is no great loss without some small gain." Though I've hated being unemployed, it does come with a few perks.)

By the way, I have slugs, too. Sofar I've just been ignoring them, I haven't really seen any damage from them... I bet I just jinxed myself though!

 

[vfem]

By the way, I have slugs, too. Sofar I've just been ignoring them, I haven't really seen any damage from them... I bet I just jinxed myself though!

CAREFUL! So far they have stunted the growth of more then 1/2 my peas from eating so much of their leaves.... they have also made small snacks of my strawberries... BUT they never mess with the berry until the night before I decide to harvest them. Like I look at this gorgeous red berry, and I say "tomorrow is the perfect day to pick that one" then the next day its half eaten and fallen off of the plant on the ground covered in slug slime!!! ARGH!!!!

Just one of those things!

Worst part, I tried DE but its been raining a little here and there... so everything is wet and moist so the slugs are not detered. BLAH. :/

Don't worry with the job thing... there is a great plan for you... I never thought that before, but from last years layoffs in this family. We were grateful for everything that came with the layoff. Things aren't the best ever, but we all noticed after the change we've all been happier. Like, no one liked their jobs before... and no one was paid enough to even pretend they liked them!? So my dad started his own business, said the worst that would happen is he fail and have to go back to job searching (which he was getting good at), my husband got to build so many things he wanted to and was putting off... he also got LOTS of time with his daughter he's never had before. Then he got a better job then previously that he's happy to get up and go too! My sister ended up with a better job, plus she got some extra time with her boys she had wished she got more of. It can suck sometimes, but like you said... it has its perks!!!

 

[GrowinVeggiesInSC]

Don't worry with the job thing... there is a great plan for you... I never thought that before, but from last years layoffs in this family. We were grateful for everything that came with the layoff. Things aren't the best ever, but we all noticed after the change we've all been happier. Like, no one liked their jobs before... and no one was paid enough to even pretend they liked them!? So my dad started his own business, said the worst that would happen is he fail and have to go back to job searching (which he was getting good at), my husband got to build so many things he wanted to and was putting off... he also got LOTS of time with his daughter he's never had before. Then he got a better job then previously that he's happy to get up and go too! My sister ended up with a better job, plus she got some extra time with her boys she had wished she got more of. It can suck sometimes, but like you said... it has its perks!!!

Thanks. It's definitely been an eye-opener.
I had a very stable, fun job at the beginning of the year. I had been there for a long time and although I loved it, there were many times that I just felt like I had outgrown it. I was bored and frustrated many a time. So, being the planner I am, I started job hunting at the end of last year. I found the *perfect* job - it was exactly what I wanted to do, AND I was going to be making more money and working a better schedule. Unbelievable! Well, I took that new job and left my comfortable, easy old job (and the steady paycheck) behind.
I soon realized that the new job was everything I hoped it would be - except one thing - the person I worked for was a very unreasonable microanager who had to have things go her way (or else). I was also working hourly, so while I was making more money per hour, there were times when I worked less hours and ended up making about the same as the last place. Well, after two months I was told it "wasn't working out," and that they couldn't afford to keep me. And that was that.
I have always been kind of panicky about money. If there was an extra opportunity to work, I took it. I hardly ever spent money on myself. The only thing I spent money on was the garden and the house, and even that I did with utmost spendthrift. I grew up very well-to-do, but I think I had an understanding early in DH's and my relationship that we would probably never be that comforable financially. I mean, we're not living in a cardboard box by any means, we have a large house, two cars and a boat, but I grew up with SO much - it seems like there was always money when one needed it.
Well the past few weeks have been interesting. I've been without work for almost a month now, and we've managed to pull through somehow.
My husband has been so understanding and sweet about it, but I hate that I am not contributing. It would be different if I could afford to stay home all the time, but in reality, that's never going to happen.
The worst part about all of it is that I had to make a decision at the beginning of the year: Take the new job or stay with the old one and start a family? I chose the new job and decided to put off the family thing for another year. I wanted to get established at the new place, have insurance, make sure I wanted to stay there long-term, etc. If I had stayed at my old job, we would have been trying for baby #1 right now. That's the part that hurts me the most, because I feel like now I have to start all over and add another year onto that plan. It makes me sad.

Sorry for the vent, but it's been really depressing being cooped up and hearing, "no, we're not hiring right now," over and over.
On the bright side, I may have a job for the end of the summer. I'm waiting to hear this week.