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Re: cucumbers

Stephanie D Green wrote:
>
> Our cucumber plants are blooming and I need to know since I'm a first
> year gardener if cucumber self pollinates or if you must do it by hand
> like squash with male and female blooms.  Can anyone help me?  I posted
> this a few days ago and got no response whatsoever!  Also, our container
> tomatoes don't seem to be setting fruit while the ones in the square foot
> plots are doing wonderfully--is this some deficiency due to the
> containers and if so, what should we add to help them out?
>
        Cucumbers are not self pollenating as far as I know. I have to
pollenate my squash by hand but not my cukes because there are enough
flowers on a cuke to attract insect pollenators.
        As for tomatos setting fruit, I have been told that it is a mineral
deficiency, but the particular mineral names varies... no hard
information either way, I still use Tomato Set spray...
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