Insects vs. Me

Written, yesterday.
I've gotten almost all the tomatoes transplanted. Only 3 more to find places for. 3 out of the 26 I started out with this morning. *sheesh* I sure hope some of these eventually make tomatoes. I also 'discovered' some insect eggs on the underside of one of the tomato leaves.

First instinct: Get rid of them!

But I remembered the ladybug eggs, so I left them there. I finished transplanting the seedling.
Then I washed my hands and reached for my laptop. Internet searching...reading...searching...reading...searching...
No luck. However, I did find the British Tomato Growers' Association. So I called them, described the eggs and the woman told me she wasn't a technical expert but they sounded like a bad insect not a good one.

I tried to wipe them off with a wet tissue and they all peeled off as one sticky bunch. AND it turns out they were really hard. REALLY. HARD. That confirmed it for me. I had read about something that lays eggs with sticky stuff to attract even more bugs. Good GRIEF! I flushed them and went on transplanting the rest of the tomatoes.

THEN I noticed a dead leaf on my mint plant and reached to take it off. IT. MOVED!!!!!!! It was big. It looked exactly like a dying leaf. I went for the camera. After I got a few images I took the pot to the outside trash bin and "relocated" it into it.
Interesting, huh? If anyone reads this and knows what it is please leave a comment telling me what it is? thanks.


What else I've gotten done:
* transplanted all the salad lettuces and parsley into a window box. I'm keeping them inside for a while.

* transplanted the cucumbers and planted a few more seeds into the big pot of soil my neighbor has left for me. It's outside.

* planted a few more okra seeds, outside and in. I just stuck some seeds into the pots outside.

* put all the pots of transplanted tomatoes on the shelves outside with the others.

Now, having finished all that, I'm going off to an organized protest and march to the Chinese Embassy.