Cucumber problem

[BartJY]

Hi Folks,

My Cucumbers are dying. The stems are rotting at the soil line. What could be causing this? How do I fix it? Last year they grew like gangbusters..

Bart

[imafan26]

Hi Bart can you update your profile with your location and zone and upload a picture so we can see what is happening to the plants.

[KitchenGardener]

So not fair when things like this happen! Anyway, two fungal diseases you might want to read about: Fusarium wilt and Verticulum wilt. I certainly hope that's not what you have as I've never managed to salvage any cucurbits of mine once it was infected...

[catgrass]

Where are you located? Have you had a lot of rain? Re-plant, it's still early.

[BartJY]

About four weeks of rain early on in Spring, but normal rain fall since I planted them. I reseeded the plants that failed. The plants that failed were all store bought.

[gumbo2176]

I find cucumbers are one of those plants that love to be direct sown into the ground by seed and not transplanted. Plus, for under $2 you can get all the seed you could possibly need for a backyard garden and have some left over for an early fall planting if you live in an area of mild weathered falls.

[BartJY]

Last year, a bumper crop year, were all seed grown. Next year I'll plant the seeds myself....

[jal_ut]

You should still be fine to plant cukes from seed. They like warm weather.