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HELP!!! Who is eating my Cucumber plants!!!
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Posted: Jul/02/2008 2:22 PM PST
Hi; I am new to the forum, but I have been vegeable gardening for about 40 years...Some years are great, some are fine and some are so-so. This is a so-so one  We live about a mile and a half as the crow flies from the Pacific ocean; it never freezes here, and we geta nice breeze most afternoons. It gets warm, but our home is not air conditioned (yet!). Most years, I grow enough cucumbers that friends and neighbors avoid me because I give so many away. I usually grow Burpees Straight 8 or burpless, and they have always done well. This year, I moved my trellis to the edge of the garden and was very happy when the seedlings came up. A week later they were gone. So I replanted, put down some Sevin and some snail bait and watched the new crop come up, then disappear. I went to the garden center and bought two six packs of established plants, planted them with both dry and liquid snail bait and a combination of malathion and sevin. These lasted about 4 days. Last week, I planted about 16 4" tall Burpees. I covered them with a nylon netting, used snail bait and killer and applied chili powder from the kitchen spice rack. These lasted until yesterday after the automatic sprinkler went off and washed the chili powder off of the leaves. I am heading to the garden center again today. I think that I will cut the bottoms out of the plastic pots and sow then directly into the soil, and then apply a layer of vaseline up the sides of the containers. I am truly at a loss. I don't think that we have any deer in our canyon as I know we have coyotes. I also know that we have squirrels, norway rats, racoons, and possums. Again, I don't think that the coyotes would allow a rabbit population to exist here very long. Anyone have any good ideas for me other than buy cukes at the market??? |
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Posted: Jul/02/2008 2:54 PM PST
WOW Thadd, you have been gardening much longer than myself. Sounds like you are on the right track. Wonder what moving the crop to a different area had to do with it. Is it really moist in that area? and do you have a problem with slugs? Keep trying something has got to work. Linda B from Sc Welcome to GG, if you haven't already, do go to the Introduction Forum and let everyone know you are here. 
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Posted: Jul/03/2008 2:36 AM PST
Could it be cutworms? When we had a problem with them, we put a collar around the base of the plant cut from a styrofoam cup. That stopped that. |
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Posted: Jul/03/2008 10:29 AM PST
Witt...I thought that the Sevin would control cut worms, but I am going to try collars on the plants that I buy today...I also noticed that someone has gone after the foliage on my bush beans. I usually grow pole beans, but what can you do with 50 or 60 pounds of beans when there is just the two of you and the neighbors hide when they see me coming 
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Posted: Jul/03/2008 12:15 PM PST
I don't know if Sevin has an effect on cutworms or not. It was a technique that I had learned years ago and it seems to work. I know what you mean. Around here it's too many squash, but I've never had TOO many. This year we aren't growing any and I do appreciate my friends dropping some by. YUM. |
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Posted: Jul/03/2008 5:59 PM PST
Have you tried planting herbs around the area to repel animals. I used to plant cat nip to attract cats. They tend to leave there mark and that keeps the small furrys away. We use beer to get rid of slugs. It dose a great job of killing them but i am not sure if it will help. |
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Posted: Jul/03/2008 6:12 PM PST
Quote: Originally posted by Thadd I usually grow pole beans, but what can you do with 50 or 60 pounds of beans when there is just the two of you and the neighbors hide when they see me comingDon't plant pole beans. Oh, that's what you did. Mm. Smart. |
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Posted: Jul/03/2008 8:18 PM PST
could it be rabbits? |
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Posted: Jul/05/2008 3:33 PM PST
Rat traps, that's it put extra large rat traps w/ peanut butter all around and maybe what ever is getting you plants will get the SNAP!!!!!
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