McKennaugh Kelley

The only fertilizer I used was composted manure, though. And I have 55 plants, & all are doing good, except these two. My main concern was over the possibility of tobacco mosaic virus, because that would be highly contagious to the rest of the plants. The dots are getting bigger, turning into little patches, and becoming just slightly yellow on some branches.
I appreciate you all taking your time to try and help me.

Also, I'm Pennsylvania, if that helps:)

Hello,
Has anyone had anything similar on their plants, & if so, do you know what it is? Started on one plant & is spreading a bit. Started on bottom "tomato suckers." Plants seem healthy enough, bottom leaves curling slightly. I pay more attention than most, though, someone else might not even really notice.
The light green speckling is my concern.
Thanks in advance.
McKennaugh

Hundreds of blueish aphids on our top corn tassels. We want to use a cayenne pepper spray that we know works for aphids (worked great on our apple trees) however it totally killed our grapevine buds and leaves (whoops!!!) does anybody use these ingredients on corn--OK or NO? We don't want our corn to be a learning experience like the grapevines! lol!
SO THE QUESTION IS:
Can you spray corn with cayenne pepper/garlic/onion/bio soap spray for aphids?
Or other kitchen remedies that are great for killing blue corn aphids? Anybody got a safe one?
(I've heard neem oil, etc., but I'm looking for something I've got on hand.)
Thanks a bunch!!

Hi!
This is my first year growing potatoes.
I planted them May 23, I think, so they are about a month and a half old. I'm in Pennsylvania, if that helps for disease ID.
They started laying down, but I thought that was just natural (aka getting a bit tall for themselves) they still looked super.
They looked happy and healthy and then this morning 2 of them were wilted BAD--obviously dying.
I decided to remove them. Their roots were basically gone. Soggy rot. It HAS been raining a lot. Leaves also yellowed and browned a bit. The healthy ones have a bit of brown, too, not much...Japanese beetles have been chewing  a little.
Please help me identify what's wrong!!
Mostly, I'm worried about my small potato patch spreading a bad disease to my HUGE tomato patch nearby, & eggplants & peppers:0

My "seed potatoes" were a grocery store bag or organic eating potatoes. I realize this could be why they have disease.
Also, I recently (week or 2 ago) heavily hill-ed them with composted manure dirt.

Thanks everybody (in advance!!),
--McKennaugh

Thank you all so much for taking the time to respond. I guess we have some decisions to make:(
Lee's peach tree story gives me hope, though!! Thanks, Lee!

Grafting is a good idea, I've never tried grafting anything before, but most of you make it sound easy. Anyone ever graft onto WILD APPLE trees? Although I wouldn't want to make our wild apples sick.

Or grafting onto any other wild trees--does anyone do this? Kinds? (We're Pennsylvania.)

Thank you all again. Any more advice is greatly appreciated!!

--McKennaugh

We need help!!
It's kind of a along story, but we have 11 semi-dwarf apple trees, about 10 years old, who keep on being uprooted from one place to another, and not being properly planted. We are at last trying to clear a final spot for these poor trees and discovered that their stumps are rotten, and almost all have large "borer holes."

I figure that most "experts" would say to just let the lot go and start over, but these trees sort of have sentimental value, so we'd love to save them. Attached are pictures, can you help us identify which borer this would be causing the damage? (Note: We live in Pennsylvania.) And being that we're organic gardeners, is there a natural way to help control this? (There are small just-under-bark "tunnel scars," too--is this from the borer as well?!?)

Also, I read that if you plant a semi-dwarf DEEPER than the rootstock grafting it will send out roots ABOVE the graft and become a full-sized tree. Being that our trees' stumps and thus rootstock are weakened due to rot (from the bore-ing) if we planted them deep--would they root higher and thus be saved? Thanks for taking time for our strange questions!! We really love our trees and feel super sad that our lack of space and care has caused them to be so ill:( Thank you again! --McKennaugh