hotwired's Cucumber: Pickling (90 seeds) x 1 Harvesting
Plant: Cucumber (Cucumis sativus) | Variety: Smart Pickle
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hotwired's Cucumber: Pickling (90 seeds) Care Instructions
Try for a seed spacing of at approx. 11.7 inches (30.0 cm) and sow at a depth of around 0.47 inches (1.2 cm) if planning to sow direct.
Ensure you have enough space in your garden for this plant - Cucumber 'Smart Pickle' is known for growing to a height of approximately 30.0 cm (that's 11.7 inches in imperial).
Your garden has full sun light which is ideal for Cucumber 'Smart Pickle'.
Remember to water often.
Your garden's USDA Hardiness Zone (5b) is within the ideal range for Cucumber 'Smart Pickle'. The recommended range is between Zone 3 and 14.
Try to keep the ph of your soil between the range of 5.5 and 6.8 as Cucumber 'Smart Pickle' likes to be in acidic soil.
Common Cucumber problems include Aphids, Powdery Mildew, and Cucumber Mosaic Virus, so keep a close eye out for any developing symptoms.
More information about Cucumber: Pickling (90 seeds) is available in the Folia gardener's wiki. All Cucumber: Pickling (90 seeds) Care Instructions have been kindly provided by our members.
Harvest Tally
Milestones
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15 Jul 2010
Harvesting day 42 Almost in a pickle here.
10.0 x item
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15 Jun 2010
Under Attack day 12
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03 Jun 2010
Sown day 0
Comments
grovespirit wrote:
Hotwired, your Cuke beetle photo looks like the Striped Cucumber Beetle Acalymma vittata. A nasty pest not just cause it eats Cukes and other cucurbits. To make matters worse these beetles often harbor and transmit bacterial wilt, mosaic viruses, powdery mildew, and other such diseases to your plants.
Delaying cucurbit plantings until the last week of June and using heavy seeding rates can help assure that plant stands survive. Floating row covers can also be used to exclude the beetles from the plants, but must be removed by bloom to allow bees to pollinate the crop. Planting on black plastic mulch reduces the survival of this beetles’ larvae by up to 50%.
The tachinid fly, Celatoria diabrioticae, parasitizes both spotted and striped cucumber beetles, so maybe you can buy some tachinids and release them, or figure out what to interplant that will attract them.
Beneficial Nematodes (Steinernema riobravis) can provide partial control of SCB larvae.
Kaolin clay (Surround) is an organic insect repellent that suppresses light populations of cucumber beetles.
And the insecticidal soap will probably help, too!
Info source:
http://www.hort.uconn.edu/ipm/veg/htms/cukbtltcrop.htm
Posted on 15 Jun 10 (almost 3 years ago)
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