cucumber frustration :(

 


i tried growing cucumbers last yr and again this yr but got nabbed by a
virus
both
yrs, so frustrating :(. i checked to see if they were blight resistant
and virus
resistant as well so it just adds to the frustration of
things.
anyone else have problems




--
sockiescat

 



I don't have virus problems, but my cucumber seedlings kept getting eaten by
earwigs.  I finally planted seeds in peat pellets and set the pellets right
up on the ground surrounded by cardboard, and some of them finally grew, but
they are only about a foot high at this point in mid-August!  Slow year for
me, definitely.
--S.

 

sockiescat said:

Mine always succumb to bacterial wilt.  

 For a while, I was growing them under screening, to exclude the
beetles that carry bacterial wilt.  So then they started dying of fungus
(no real air circulation under the screen).

So I skipped a couple of years.  This year, no screening, the seedlings
were mercilessly attacked by earwigs, overcame that to start setting
some fruit, then died of wilt.  I got two cucumbers.

I used to be able to buy an insecticide specific for cucumber beetles
(encapsulated bait made with cucurbitacin).  I used to grow such nice
melons and cukes.  Not anymore.

--
Pat in Plymouth MI
    
"Vegetables are like bombs packed tight with all kinds of important
nutrients..."     --Largo Potter, Valkyria  Chronicles
 
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wrote:


We have basically the same problem here. Haven't had a decent crop of
pickling cucumbers or muskmelons for years.

Ross.

 

On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:45:29 -0400, Ross wrote:


I'm having a great year for cucumbers, in fact I'm about to start
pickling them because I've saturated on eating fresh cumcumbers. I've
also have a million tomatoes, the pumpkins are doing well and I did OK
with peas. I only had blueberries for a couple of weeks this year as did
the strawberries. Last year I got no cucumbers, no peas, and hardly any
tomatoes but I had blueberries from the spring through the fall. The
difference was that last year was cold and wet which killed all of my
vegetables but was great for my fruit, this year is hot and dry which is
great for the vegetables and sucks for the fruit.