Beetles, Blight, and Bonnaroo

So I have seriously neglected my blogging duties. The good news is that although I haven't been writing about it, I have not neglected my garden and it's doing pretty well. In the last month already busy due to finishing up the school year, a trip to Tennessee for the Bonnaroo music festival , and beginning to train for a fundraising marathon, there have been a few issues in the garden. On a side note, I have to say my experience at Bonnaroo was fabulous. Four days of camping, great shows, and a huge crowd of laid-back people turned out to be even more fun than I expected. My lovely neighbor was kind enough to watch the dogs and the plants while we were gone. In late May before we left, my cucumbers and squash were plagued by stripped cucumber beetles. My tomatoes came down with a case of early blight that they are still recovering from. On my step-father-in-law's recommendation, I purchased some insecticidal soap, which seems to be getting rid of the bugs better than the garlic-cayenne pepper concoction I was trying. It's still organic. With help at one of the friendly local gardening stores, my tomatoes were diagnosed with early blight (a fungus) and I have been treating them with a a copper/zinc spray. One of the chemicals used in the spray happens to be similar to the dimethylzinc molecule Ryan was researching for his dissertation. The spray is organic and I was told it was the most natural thing I could use, but today I was mixing up a new batch and actually read the whole pamphlet and it's really toxic. I knew I needed to wait five days after spraying for harvest, but I'm also supposed to wear long sleeves/pants/washable gloves while spraying and wash them all separate from other clothes. I think I'm going to start covering my basil with plastic when I do my weekly anti-fungicide so that I can harvest it as often as I want without worry. I'd like to stop using the spray, but the blight is still there even with it and I've already lost a ton of the bottom leaves on all my plants. So far the fruit haven't been affected by the blight and I have harvested two tomatoes from my Pink Beauty and a handful of Black Cherry Tomatoes. My other tomato plants each have a full sized fruit but are still green. The tomatoes are taller than I am and I need to figure out something to support them since they have long outgrown their cages. (Photo 1 &4 shots of the garden, #2 the yellowed tomato leaves, # 3a closeup of my bell pepper, which will probably never turn orange since the tomatoes are hogging all the sunlight!)