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  • From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
  • To: "Tom Circle" <tcircle AT ckt.net>, "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Spotted Cucumber Bettles
  • Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 07:58:11 -0500

Tom
 
I wish there was but I don't think there is any resistance available for bacterial wilt in cucumbers.
 
Bill Shoemaker, Sr Research Specialist - Food Crops
University of Illinois - St Charles Horticulture Research Center
www.nres.uiuc.edu/faculty/directory/shoemaker_wh.html
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Circle <tcircle AT ckt.net>
To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 9:04 PM
Subject: [Market-farming] Spotted Cucumber Bettles

We are growing Asian burpless cucumbers in a high tunnel.  Yields have been great but are having what I guess is bacterial wilt. At least the plants are wilting and are gone in a couple of days. Are there any burpless cucumbers that are resistant to bacterial wilt?  I have sprayed but the little buggers ( cucumber beetles ) are tough to get.    
 
Thanks,  Tom Circle
zone 6 SE Kansas



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