John, Thanks for the reply. That .pdf looks like a really nice resource. I have several species of spiders all over the garden, nothing specifically targeting pinworms. I am pretty sure that the most common variety I have is a yellow sac spider. The spiders may not be helpful with pinworms that have buried themselves inside the plant or fruit, but they do a nice job of killing off the adult moths and random traveling pinworms. The spiders combined with diligent human search and destroy techniques (targeting pinworms with minimal leaf removal) have worked well for my small kitchen garden (~9 tomato plants, ~25 plants overall). -Chris

For your tomato, it looks like Flea Beetles, you can actually see one in the bottom-most picture you posted and the damage is typical of them. Treatment for Flea Beetles depends on your personal preference. For the non-organic route, I believe you can use Sevin insecticide - provided they are listed on the bottle, which I believe they are. Organic pesticides, on the other hand, I don't know of any for killing Flea Beetles - I'll defer to those with experience on the matter. I don't use any pesticides really, but if I had them, I'd just squish as many as I could find :) For your Basil, it kind of looks like it's got sunburn / windburn. Was it hardened off before putting it in full sun? For the cucumber... I'm guessing it's probably not warm enough yet for it to really take-off growing. It looks fine and pretty much like most of my seedlings. They always start-off slow and then try to conquer the garden in a matter of weeks. Good luck.

Are these older leaves from the bottom of the plant or new top growth? If older leaves it could just be natural death of the lower leaves as always happens. Otherwise given all the yellowing, likely some over-watering, perhaps some nutrient deficiency, even some early blight. Your location/zone info on your post would help as it would at least give us a hint as to old the plants are and what your weather has been like - all of which contribute to problems. Also need to know if they are in containers or in the ground? Dave

"I planted a 5 gallon trashcan next to this plant and two others, buried 1/3 of the can, with holes drilled in bottom, to provide slow subsurface irrigation. I feed 1x per week with compost and heirloom tomato fertilizer added to the irrigation can." In addition to all the other points made about lack of any nutrients and water, I will add that set-ups such as you describe are very prone to plugging up the holes and restricting water. Plus compost left to stand in such an environments can easily turn anaerobic. Such an approach isn't nearly as ideal as it may sound. Dave