This is not my first time growing cucumbers. Last year, even with poor weather and floods I had so many I was giving them away!
This year I have a truly wonderful garden. Soil is great, composted, nourished with bone meal. When I say every other plant I have in my garden is flourishing and producing fruit like mad, I mean it. Even my eggplants are flourishing and they are picky plants.
But my cuckes are awful! The plants are in great shape with big dark leaves and there are baby cukes and flowers all over the place. The plants are huge too. No bug damage. But all of the cuckes are either dying when small, or curling, or taste so bad and bitter you can't eat them.
What is wrong? I've never had a problem with the cukes. I don't understand.
2007-06-27 07:26:50 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Cukes need plenty of water. Never let them dry out. Those that are dying when small are probably not pollenated. No bees this year could be part of the problem.
2007-06-27 10:37:54 · answer #1 · answered by renpen 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That particular plant may have had a disease when it was a starter....you should get them out of your garden before it destroys other plants.
2007-06-27 14:30:58 · answer #2 · answered by TextnQueen 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I would guess a bad strain of seeds. Everything else sounds OK.
2007-06-27 14:34:33 · answer #3 · answered by bugear001 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋