Whatever it was burrows, I think. Today I went out there and whatever it was did the same thing, just above where I had built the dirt up. Next to the plant was a half inch in diameter hole and I am going to assume that is what is causing me problems. I have a pic but I haven't figured our how to post it yet :)

If you do a search on here or google aphids there is allot of info out there. I got one infected plant as well and in doing my research there are beneficital incects you can add like Lady bugs that eat aphids. I went the incecticidle soap I think the name was concern or something like that but it was organic. I filled up a sprayer and sprayed the heck out of the under sides of the leaves and stems. Note be sure to check there to as I had leaf curl and thought it was too much water and it ended up being aphids.

Hi Yennie. I had a similar problem this last year with the three tomato plants that I tried to grow in the ground instead of in containers. Something, and I never saw what, ate completely through their stems. Whatever it was never touched the leaves. I would just come out in the morning and an otherwise healthy looking plant would be on the ground with its stem chewed through. I've never seen a slug here, but have had problems with cutworms. But if cutworms were to blame, you'd think some leaves would be damaged as well. Anyhow, I think there are a few posts about it on my garden blog linked below. Here is a link that might be useful: Container Gardening in the Desert

joy: I hardened off my tomato plants in a covered porch. If they stayed in a covered porch the whole time, they weren't really hardened off. Hardening off requires a gradual exposure to full sunlight, wind, etc., starting with a day in full shade outdoors (covered porch works well for this) but then progressing to exposure to direct sun, from an hour or so of morning light increasing over the course of about a week to spending all day out in the sun. At any rate, the marks on your leaves are classic for sunscald. Since the damage is not too extensive, they should recover OK. joy: I fed my tomato plants with worm castings, bone meal and epsom salts. None of these things are fertilizers, really. Bone meal is, sort of, if your soil lacks P, but if it doesn't, excessive P can cause problems. Epsom salts are a source of Mg, but, once again, if you don't have a deficiency in your soil, it can do more harm than good. It's easy to create an imbalance by using these nutrient-specific products without getting proper soil testing done and if you don't have a lot of experience with soil and plant nutrition. N, P, and K to a plant are like protein, fat, and carbohydrates for us--the basic building blocks of our nutritional requirements. What you're doing now is like feeding a kid only fat and vitamins and not providing any protein or carbohydrates. Obviously, that's not a recipe for thriving. Worm castings are terrific and contribute to good tilth, add good microorganisms, etc., so keep using it, but it's not really food. It's a common myth that using fertilizer is somehow "bad" and true organic gardening relies only on compost. That's probably why we see so many people who use compost and various home remedies then show up on here wondering why their plants look so poorly. To not use fertilizer at all, you have to put time and effort into a long-term and constant soil-building program that has been going on for many years. In the quantities that most people use compost, i.e., a few handfuls in the planting hole and then top- or side-dressed a few times over a season, certain greens and herbs may be happy, but it's not going to cut it for fruiting plants. Right now, your plants need N, so I would feed them a general plant fertilizer that will be relatively higher in N. Once they start flowering and fruiting, switch to a tomato-specific fertilizer, which will be lower in N than in P or K. I hope you didn't add large amounts of bone meal, as that would mean you'd have to customize your fertilizer application more instead of being able to rely on commonly available pre-mixed products.