sockiescat said:



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

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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