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Re: Intro RE: raised bed construction

At 05:01 PM 3/7/97 -0800, you wrote:
>Last year I had somekind of wilt affect my cucumbers and squash plants,
>though the cucumber did a lot of production prior to deleveloping the wilt.

Cucumbers often (usually? always?) die of a bacterial wilt spread by
cucumber beetles. I must rely on the wisdom of others, as i have not solved
the problem yet. One solution is to cover the plants with a fine screening.
Unfortunately, this keeps the bees out as well as the beetles, so you must
hand pollinate. Another solution is to plant a second crop of cucumbers, so
that when the first planting croaks, you'll have a second coming along
behind it. Been there, done that, second crop died too. :-(

Squash, it could be the cucumber wilt or the squash vine borer.

>My tomatoes weren't doing anything until I heard about the lack of bees
>and started hand pollinating, even so the fruit never got bigger than a
>tennis ball, however I really enjoyed the flavor, and there were plenty
>on two plants.

What cultivar did you use? Some varieties don't get bigger than tennis balls.

>The corn did not develop
>heads with a full amount of kernals, ...

This is a pollination problem. Were there enough corn plants in close
proximity to insure pollination? Was site windy enough to spread the pollen?

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