hi all,

hopefully someone here can help me. let me first state that i'm a gardening newbie.

6 days ago i planted my tomato, pepper and eggplant plants into my virgin raised bed filled with store-bought soil and compost. they all seem fine except for my ichiban eggplant. i should mention that possibly the day before the planting, i noticed that one of the leaves was kind of wilty. i didn't worry at first. well, for the past 6 days, the leaf has still been wilty-looking, but it didn't seem to get worse. last night we had heavy rain, and today (this afternoon) i noticed the plant looked really sickly. i think a leaf is gone, and there are some holes in a leaf AND there's a dusty-looking substance at the top of the stem. any ideas? it seems like muliple things are going on here. pest and disease?

and while i'm here, my early girl has always been a bit limp, and i found one of its leaves on the ground beside it. i assume it's some kind of pest. i will search the rest of the forums for chemical-free removal of pests because i'm sure there's loads of info on that.

thanks!

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