What zone are you gardening in?

SE Florida

maybe i should add that i have spider webs all over my property...

Spiders don't eat leaves. They eat the things that eat leaves. You'll have to go out at night to catch the culprits. It looks like slugs, but they can be hard to find. I see your pot is sitting on bricks. Slugs hide under bricks and concrete and come out at night to eat. Not all of them leaves trails, I've found, but look for a trail anyway. You have to put the bait inbetween where they live and the plant, like if they are hiding under the brick walkway, you put it from the edge where they come out at night to the pot and surround the pot with the pellets.

Beetles like to hide i mulch, and they can eat stuff up too.

could this be from white flies? i notice that when i shake the leaves, lots of tiny tiny little white bugs fly off of them.

Little tiny things don't eat big holes.

Vegetable gardening season is pretty much done for this season in S FL. I pull everything up by Mid May. Summers are too hot and humid for most veggies and it's now the height of bug season. With as much rain as we've had, it could be any of a number of pests. You can spray and try to maintain them, but I suggest you start again in the fall. USF has a number of good vegetable gardening guides online that are specific to the three growing zones in Florida. You'll find appropriate planting times and recommended varieties. There are some southern vegetables that you can plant for summer, I only try sweet potatoes, but I've heard okra and malabar spinach will produce too.

We're at least as hot and humid as you are, and certainly tomatoes are almost done, but everything else will be going gangbusters here. Melons, cukes, squash, peppers, eggplant, etc. etc. But maybe your bugs are worse?

Not sure it's just bugs, but lots of fungal disease. All of the farmer's markets are shut down, no commercial production. Not sure how the weather is different, but it's pretty tough to grow much here in the summer.

Interesting. Now, our temps are often well over 100F. Maybe that just kills all the fungus? Soil tops dry quickly, and I'm sure that helps.

I was going to suggest the possibility of it being caterpillars, slugs, flea beetles, or grasshoppers. I doubt if slugs would do so many holes on the same leaf as is seen on one of the leaves (same for caterpillars, though), but I suppose either is still possible. I know peppers in my greenhouse have a bunch of immature grasshoppers on them that do similar damage (I've seen them eating the holes), if not quite as heavily. Let me go get a picture. BRB

Here they are (I guess they like basil and okra—not pictured—too, but they don't seem to eat the melons):

Here's one of the grasshoppers:

I'm not trying to control the grasshopper issue. It'll disappear when I transplant, and it's about time. Yes, those peppers have been overwatered in the recent past.

Even though it looks similar to grasshopper damage, you'd probably have seen them by now.

Another alternative is pill bugs. The other year, I saw a bunch eating some pepper leaves (on just one plant) in the morning, maybe at 10 am. I don't remember what the damage looked like, though.

Whiteflies are sucking insects; I've never heard of them chewing holes. They do damage, however, and can spread disease. So if you have white flies, you may still want to do something about them.

Looks very much like the damage leaf notchers have been doing to some of my veggies and other plants as well. They are small whitish oval shaped insects that look like a weevil. Very good at hiding underneath leaves, they drop off and fly away when disturbed. Like grasshoppers and katydids, they make ragged edged holes like that.

sonnit, this is actually the season to grow hot peppers. Bell peppers are grown in the fall, but hot peppers love our summer heat. There are a lot of veggies you can grow in the summer here, if you include the tropical veggies.

I will say tho, that peppers appreciate filtered shade in the hottest part of the day, IMPE.

Please help! Can anyone tell me what plant this is? I found 4 of these in my raised garden bed.

midwesther, It looks kind of like a watermelon, but I'd guess that it's some kind of wild nightshade, especially if it has spines (probably in the Solanum genus). What do the cotyledons (the seed leaves) look like?

Hi Shule, thanks for the response. When it was new sprout they looked like young tomato plant. And yes they have spines (thorny). I decided to get rid of them and replaced it with eggplants. Happy Sunday! :)

Not watermelon, I think. Looks more like soda apple, which is a solanum considered a noxious weed.