Re: Phantom cucumber plant

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• To: Kristine Furner <f*@oak.cats.ohiou.edu>
• Subject: Re: Phantom cucumber plant
• From: K* K* <k*@home.com>
• Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 01:24:31 -0700
• References: <3.0.5.32.19990628080040.007c8b40@oak.cats.ohiou.edu>

Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html

This happened to me too, but I'm in the suburbs - definitely not country
around here.  I had planted three dwarf sunflowers in a large pot that I
was growing for my mom.  I watered them and then the next day noticed
that one of the plants was completely missing - no trace at all!  Do
small birds like mockingbirds steal seedlings too?  These were fairly
large, 5" high and fairly stocky.

Kim
Laguna Hills, So CAL  zone 9b

Kristine Furner wrote:
> 
> Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
> 
> Okay, I am completely baffled.
> 
> I have three cuke plants.  Two were planted early and we have been
> harvesting from them, the third plant is much smaller with vines only about
> 12" long. However, to my horror and surprise Sun eve, the third plant was
> GONE!!!!   There was one broken leaf on the ground but no other traces of
> the plant.  I dug down in the dirt and found some of the root system there,
> but all in all it just disappeared.  Nothing else in the garden was
> touched, no footprints of any type in the beds, nothing.  I have no idea
> what may have happened to it.  I checked my planting guides to make sure I
> hadn't lost my mind and there really did used to be a cucumber plant there
> (plus I had just seen it Sat eve when I was training it up the trellis).
> 
> Does anyone know of anything (other than the two-legged, upright standing
> ones) that would take an entire fairly mature plant right out of the ground
> leaving no traces?  We live in the country with hardly no people around us
> so I'm hesitant to believe that another person did this.
> 
> Kristine
> SE Ohio, Zone 5b
> 
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