BT, works great on the cabbage worms. They will tear up brassica. There's a white moth that lays the eggs. I was so close to getting a salt gun to shoot the bastards last year. I'd see them in the afternoons, they are territorial I've read. But as soon as I killed one, another would come by. Row covers work if you get them in soon enough. I will be trying. that this year as well as the BT.
I had a really bad blister beetle infestation on my Romas mostly last year. Persistence, and Dawn detergent in a spray bottle eventually beat them into extinction. But once again aphids destroyed my cabbage, broccoli and Brussels sprouts. I'm done trying to grow them.
I know what you mean. I am hoping to get my plants in the ground next week. We have had a couple frosts here in my part of PA recently. Somehow I started my plants inside way to early this year. Pepper plants are coming along nicely, tomatoes are very viney. Not sure if they will do well or not.
You can plant tomatoes deep with their stems either straight down or even sideways. They'll root along it. Afterwards, you'll want to trim the lowest branches to avoid rain splash which transmits disease from the soil. They are very resilient to trimming so the sooner the better (not immediately of course).
They always seem to do this to me prior to getting the ripe tomatoes I need for salsa.
haha! Exactly what happened here.
