Cucumber

Avoid touching cucurbit plants at all when the leaves are wet from rain or morning dew, so you don’t help spread the spores. Wait until… Read More »Can You Touch Cucumber Leaves?

Some birds will peck at cucumbers on the vine. However, typically, they will do so not for the nutrients and sustenance cucumber can provide, but… Read More »Will Birds Eat My Cucumber Plants?

Rabbits, Voles, Woodchucks, Deer, Chipmunks, Squirrels. All eat leaves or fruits of plants in vegetable gardens. What will eat cucumber leaves? If you happen to… Read More »What Animals Eat Cucumber Leaves?

How to Protect Your Plants from Chipmunks Cover shrubs and other large plants with mesh bird netting. Cover all freshly dug soil you create, placing… Read More »How Do I Protect My Cucumbers From Chipmunks?

Though apple and cucumber are too big for them to eat, but you can’t stop the chipmunks from any of them. As they are omnivorous,… Read More »Will Chipmunks Eat Cucumbers?

Baking soda on plants causes no apparent harm and may help prevent the bloom of fungal spores in some cases. It is most effective on… Read More »Can I Use Baking Soda On My Cucumber Plants?

Gummy stem blight is a stem and leaf disease of cucumber, cantaloupe, pumpkin, and watermelon caused by the fungus Didymella bryoniae. This fungus also causes… Read More »How Do Cucumbers Control Pest And Diseases?

Use yellow sticky traps to catch cucumber beetles and other pests. Knock beetles to the ground and catch them with a piece of cardboard placed… Read More »How Do You Get Rid Of Cucumber Beetles?

‘Blue Hubbard‘ is an excellent trap crop because it can produce high amounts of this compound as early as two weeks of age. As ‘Blue… Read More »What Is A Trap Crop For Cucumber Beetles?

Cucumber beetle larvae (immature forms) feed on the roots and bore into both roots and stems of cucumber plants. Striped cucumber beetle (Acalymma vittatum). The… Read More »What Insect Bores Holes In Cucumbers?