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- From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Cucumbers
- Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:19:37 -0500
On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:31:15 -0500, you wrote:
>For those growing cukes vertically, are you able to cover the plants with
>fabric to keep the cucumber beetles away until the plants start to flower?
>
We live in a relatively cool-summer area, in the Appalachian Mountains, in
Pennsylvania's Northern Tier.
It seems that a whole lot of insects don't get up into these mountains -
there are no Mexican bean beetles here, for example (knock on wood! I've
grown beans for 8 years here, and I've not seen one single Mexican bean
beetle - although we do have Japanese beetles, but they don't really seem
to like beans, they just nibble a bit now and then.)
We had no 17-year cicadas here either when most of Pennsylvania had them.
And I have never, ever seen a tick here (this has been confirmed by local
friends who have lived here much longer than I have).
Anyway, the point of all this is that I haven't had any cucumber beetles.
In fact, I don't even know what they look like.
Before everyone starts to envy our relatively insect-free status - we have
a serious gardening enemy here: cold. Short frost-free season, cool
nights all summer - down into the 40s routinely in July and August,
sometimes even into the 30s, and there have been very occasional frosts in
July. (I have a terrible struggle with blight on tomatoes.) So you pays
your money and you takes your choice.....
Cheers,
Pat
--
In Pennsylvania's Northern Tier, northeastern USA.
Website: www.meadows.pair.com/articleindex.html
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide
what kind of difference you want to make. - Jane Goodall
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Re: [Market-farming] Cucumbers
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Re: [Market-farming] Cucumbers,
Allan Balliett, 12/23/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Cucumbers,
Bill Bradshaw, 12/23/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Trellising Cucumbers,
Leigh Mae Friedline, 12/26/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Trellising Cucumbers,
breck, 12/26/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Trellising Cucumbers,
Glen Eco Farm, 12/26/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Trellising Cucumbers, Sharon and Steve, 12/26/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Trellising Cucumbers, breck, 12/26/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Trellising Cucumbers, Marc Winterburn, 12/27/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Trellising Cucumbers, Square Ft Gardening, 12/28/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Trellising Cucumbers,
Glen Eco Farm, 12/26/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Trellising Cucumbers,
breck, 12/26/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Trellising Cucumbers,
Leigh Mae Friedline, 12/26/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Cucumbers,
Bill Bradshaw, 12/23/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Cucumbers,
Allan Balliett, 12/23/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Cucumbers, Pat Meadows, 12/24/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Cucumbers,
Kate Halstead, 12/23/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Cucumbers,
Garth & Kim Travis, 12/23/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Cucumbers,
Allan Balliett, 12/24/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Cucumbers,
Garth & Kim Travis, 12/25/2008
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[Market-farming] where to buy things,
Beth Spaugh, 12/25/2008
- [Market-farming] Peat as animal bedding., Sharon and Steve, 12/25/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Peat as animal bedding., Beth Spaugh, 12/25/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] where to buy things, Allan Balliett, 12/25/2008
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[Market-farming] where to buy things,
Beth Spaugh, 12/25/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Cucumbers,
Garth & Kim Travis, 12/25/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Cucumbers, Pat Meadows, 12/25/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Cucumbers,
Allan Balliett, 12/24/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Cucumbers,
Garth & Kim Travis, 12/23/2008
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