Celery needs to be mounded up the sides of the growing stalks to keep them from getting too green. This is called blanching. Try cardboard or some other creative way if pulling soil is too difficult.
Tomatoes: Once they are up and growing, be aware of potential insect problems, especially the tomato horn worm. You might want to read up on the dastardly devil. Keep the fruit off the ground, least it rots. Keep the soil evenly moist least you get blossom end rot. Realize there are two types of tomatoes: determinate that grow to a certain size and then start setting fruit all at once and indeterminate which continue to grow and set fruit. Many of your little tomatoes are indeterminate and can be monsters by the end of the summer.
Cabbage worms......did you notice little white moths fluttering around? Their worms are eating. Use Bt spray.......bacillus thuringensis spray.....it only kills caterpillars. Perfect for cabbage worms.......but get to it ASAP while you still have plants.
Beets and lettuce are cool season plants, not hot summer plants. They prefer a cooler soil. If you sowed in a line, try mulching along the line to see if that will cool the soil enough. Otherwise retry in a few weeks when things cool down.
Beans sick? Could be a soil fungus or virus. Pull up a sick plant and slit the stem open. If you see purplish discolor inside or even along the outer stem, you've got a problem in the soil.
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