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

On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 07:09:50 -0400, Pat Kiewicz
wrote:

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.

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

Ross.

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.