I'm planning to bring a tray or two of tomato seedlings to the Los Altos plant exchange tomorrow, and I'll have a lot left over. They oldest ones are 7 weeks old, and I had a lot of late germinators that are younger. They are all much smaller than the ones you'd buy in a nursery. I have Aunt Ruby's German Green, Bonny Best, Camp Joy, Caspian Pink, Cherokee Purple, Druzba, KB(X?), Orange Strawberry, Paul Robeson, Russian 117, Cherry Roma, and Pineapple. I may also have one or two (very small) Black Brandywine, Brown Berry, Anna Russian, Black Cherry, Chocolate Cherry, Earl's Faux, and Toedebusch Pink. Send me a PM with your e-mail address if you're interested in specific ones. Otherwise, see you at the plant exchange!

Hi Donna, do you still have some of these? I started everything BUT tomatoes in a timely manner this year - I'd be interested in brandywine and/or cherokee. Are you looking for anything? I have some baby blackberries potted, some extra nasturtium seedlings and I suspect I have rather more monarda than I need.

Okiebaker, Aw, c'mon now, tomato fever panic never cured anything, so relax and repeat after me "Growing tomatoes is fun and relaxing". Good. Now say it again. Take a deep breath. Feel better yet? Daconil is an anti-fungal agent. It coats the leaves and prevents fungal spores from attaching. It is not effective on bacterial infections. Copper spray is a fungicide/bactericide and is what you use for bacterial diseases on your tomato plants, whether you have bacterial speck or bacterial spot. The label of the product you purchase will give you the proper dilution rates and spray intervals. You can purchase copper products at nurseries, garden centers, big box stores or online. Be careful not to overuse copper because heavy overuse can cause copper to build up to toxic levels in your soil. Also, copper is toxic to earthworms and to aquatic life, so try not to develop an overdependence on it. Whether or not to remove the infected branch is a matter of choice. I tend to do it, but some folks don't. Be careful when removing it and do not touch anything else with your hands or your pruners until you've washed both or you could spreadthe bacteria to everything you or the pruning shears touch. Also, it is a judgement call in terms of removing a disease branch and how many to remove. If you remove too many, the plant will suffer a serious setback and developing fruit may lost its sun protection and develop sunscald. Most plants bounce back from bacterial speck and bacterial spot with minimal treatment. In future years, you should rotate your tomato plantings to another part of the garden or yard. If you repeatedly plant them in the same place, they'll have bacterial problems every year because it will build up in the soil. A 3-year or 4-year rotation is best, but even a 2-year rotation is better than nothing. Good luck, Dawn

I have two earthboxes and a topsy-turvy with Black Krim tomatoes. I looked at my topsy turvy today, and noticed clusters of these black beetles on the leaves. They are not flea beetles. Does anyone have any ideas? Image link: