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Re: flea beetles

Your description sounds just like flea beetles .. a serious pest of
eggplant.

I start my eggplant off under floating row covers and do not remove the
cover until the blossoms are ready for polination. By then the plants
are mature enough to withstand a lot of flea beetle dammage and still
produce a good crop.

Some years, however, the beetles are so numerous that I use a pyrethrum
and soap spray a few times after the cover is removed.

Although floating row covers are not suppposed to need suppport, I find
that my eggplant does better if I prop up the cover and form a sort of "
green house" over them. I save a batch of used beer cans (I use beer for
slugs) and prop them up on sticks to support the row cover. Old tennis
balls on sticks also works well.

Good luck    Ed  Flynn   Maryland   zone 6-7

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