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Taber, Alberta

I share my farm patch with a friend of mine. My plants are still in their hoophouses and are fine. The problem is, the tomatoes and peppers have had their leaves stripped. The stalks are still there and the leaves are coming back, but they then get eaten again. The potatoes have had leaves stripped off, but not eaten, as well as some of the flowers. Again, no damage to the stalks, just the leaves taken off. We can't find any sign of bugs around and there's no footprints in the soil to follow. Never seen a rabbit or squirrel nearby, although there's lots of birds.
Any ideas before they take out my pumpkin plants?
Alan

6/9/2007 3:49:00 PM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

Get some sticky traps out there ASAP.

6/9/2007 6:13:40 PM

Mill Bay, British Columbia

What do you think it is?

6/9/2007 7:08:25 PM

Taber, Alberta

I personally have no clue. The local greenhouse said today it may be some type of bug. This patch is 3 miles from my house and I've never had these problems with any of my plants at home. It's odd, it hasn't touched the corn, beans, squash, cucumbers or forbid...the pumpkins. But potatos, peppers, tomatoes and now snapdragons are getting it. No sign of bugs anywhere...but I haven't done the sticky traps yet, Wal-Mart was closed by the time I got to it.
I pulled the Kozy-Koat off my watermelon plant and stuck it in the middle of the tomato row last week. The 5 tomato plants on the south side have not been touched. The 10 on the north side...stripped bare. This part has me baffled.

6/10/2007 12:14:46 AM