Question
I have recently built and implemented a square foot garden in an 8x5 raised bed. I have used this bed for the last 5 years for organic tomatoes only, but this year have added in a multitude of vegetables.  In preparing the soil for this experiment/project, I amended my mostly clay "soil" (Virginia) with organic humus/cow manure and soil conditioner. I am two months into the garden with all vegetables growing beautifully; however I've begun to notice that many of my plants are suddenly showing problems. The okra's bottom leaves are turning yellow with brown spots, the chocolate pepper's leaves are spotting white and today started curling in on themselves; the tomato leaves are beginning to yellow w/brown edges; the Japanese eggplant is looking a little wilty; and my Yellow Pear tomato suddenly started dying from the bottom leaves and is moving up. At first I suspected too much nitrogen, as they all started out with small spotting, but now I think these must all be different issues.  This has sprung up so fast that I am VERY nervous about the health of my little "babies"!  The kicker is that before I planted any of my seeds or seedlings, I used the same soil for an apple seed growing indoors.  That plant has now also begun to have white spotty leaves at the bottom.

Am I over-watering?  Is there an organic remedy to these problems?  Please tell me that I am not too late!

Desperately and with much gratitude,
Christina

Answer
Test your soil right away, to eliminate the possibility of an unbalanced soil.  It may be too rich. It could be flea beetles (easily cured by Rotonone which should be used only at night to prevent the killing of beneficial insects, the sun will render it harmless very shortly during the day) but they make a hole in the leaves, so it is probably fungal.  I would do a search for organic fungicides and get some, and spray them quickly.