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Re: brown spots on cukes

HawB333@aol.com wrote:
> i have 4 cucumber plants and they all have the same problem: on their lower
> leaves the get yellow/brown spots then the leaves turn yellow and fall off.
> the plant still puts off fruit futher up the vine, but if there is any fruit
> where the leaves die it dies too.

(All together now...)

Sounds like your cukes have got a bacterial infection spread by the cucumber beetle.  Sorry, there's no treatment and no cure.  In the future you will
need to control the beetles.  They are about 1/4" long, yellow, with either black spots or black longitudinal stripes.  Someone else will have to tell
you how to control them, because i (temporarily :-) gave up on them before i learned how.

If it doesn't frost too early in your zone, there might be time to start a new crop, but you won't get any fruit until September.
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