I have similar damage to my radish greens, they are very tiny green caterpillars that hide during the day. I find them early in the morning and they actually try to run from me. They cause alot of damage in a short amount of time for their size. I also had damage to my brocolli plants that turned out to be a big black caterpillar that hid during the day in a bit of straw I had by them that the ladybugs came in. I knew it was a caterpillar cause of the large scat everywhere.

heres pics of my radish greens and the villian!
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I had problems with tiny slugs (as well as larger ones) eating my lettuces. They can eat holes in the middle of a leaf like that. Some of the slugs were only about 3 or 4mm long. Tiny. They didn't leave slime trails. I went out to look for them early in the morning and found them still on the plants, before they had hidden for the day. When the tiny ones realized they were caught and scrunched up into a ball, they looked like a tiny pebble. It would have been hard to find them if they hadn't still been on the leaf.

The photo above looks very similar to the damage I have. Except some of mine have multiple small holes also. I looked last evening with a flashlight and found nothing. Also this morning. I'll go out early tomorrow morning and see what I can find.

Still cannot figure how to upload a photo on here. I don't even see any function. I'm obviously missing something obvious.

type this in your message on its own line
src =" ">
Put your image location inbetween the quotes.
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs425.ash1/23523_1381322449303_1119198678_1191223_2834782_n.jpg
it needs to be http and not www. Also check the photo size when you preview the message. badabing badabang youve got it!

Well I found some flea beetles this evening. That explains the multiple small holes. Not sure it explains the large holes and eaten edges.
I picked up some insecticidal soap to try. I really hate to try anything harsher, such as sevin at this point. Especially on leaves we will be ingesting.

organicislandfarmer...not sure I understand your image uploading instructions. You type that line and between the quotation marks you put the location(?) of your photo. Do you mean an url location, like photobucket, shutterfly or webshots? You cannot upload a photo from your own computer? I've been on numerous discussion forums etc and never seen anything like this.

yes I use face book, Go to the Growing Tomatoes forum and look at the 2010 tomato part 4 post. It does a better job of describing it. Every time I type the code it shows the picture instead of the example code. It is an url location in between the quotes. maybe if you email me I can type it better.

Here is a link that might be useful: facebook page

Let's try this to see if this will upload photos of the damaged leaves:

Bigtrout -

Almost.

You need a space between img and src. Otherwise, it looks like it would have worked.

Something is wrong with the file location. If you right click on the image and select 'properties' then you can copy if from there and paste it right between the two quote marks.

The last time i planted mesclun i put a piece of nylon tulle loosely over the seeds and anchored the edges by placing a short length of rebar across the edge of the fabric. Voila!, perfect mesclun.

i don't have a great picture-the leeks obscure the rebar edges-but maybe you can get the idea from this?

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After a few clippings the plants grew larger and threw the covers off. By then they were better able to fend for themselves. i am still clipping a few leaves here and there.

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