It wasn't hardened off first nearly well enough so is sun burned and wind burned. Plants cannot go from indoors straight to the garden.

It "might" recover if it can adjust to the conditions quickly enough but cut off the 3 worst of the damaged leaves to reduce stress.

Dave

Sun/Wind burn. nothing you can do about it now. if that one is the worst of them, i think they will be fine. going to set them back quite a bit though. Not sure where your located, but i would either direct seed or restart some backups. you can always just keep the stronger plant.

Cut the 2 leaves off that are a lost cause. They are just sucking resources and nutrients from th new leaves trying to grow oh and chop off th 3rd one I just noticed on th ground in the shad

In most cases, although it might seem that damaged leaves are 'sucking resources', in fact some nutrients are mobile within plants and are moved to where they are needed most. When a leaf is too damaged to act as a solar collector, the plant will first extract the mobile nutrients, then the moisture, then it will seal off the leaf, eventually leading to the leaf dropping off. So, unless damaged or dying leaves are diseased, in danger of contracting a disease, or shading healthy leaves, there is no good reason to remove them - the plant itself will do that at the proper time.

I would cut off the worst leaves (anything really floppy - I see two on the ground). Water well, and rig up some shade if you can. Just place a bucket or watering can beside each plant to cast a shadow, or place a laundry basket (with holes in it) over a plant or two (with a brick on top).

Linda

Ditto on sunburn from insufficient hardening off. However, the two newest leaves look like they are developing normally, so the plant should recover on its own with no action required. I'm in agreement with rgreen48, let the plant drop the damaged leaves on its own.