Mary’s Mini Munch Cukes, to come...

[Shawn]

Looking nice

[MaryL]

Taken December 31. Leaves are getting spotty again, but I’ve got cukes!

Right side plant







Left side plant







Full garden

[Shawn]

Your cucumbers look so healthy.

[MaryL]

The rest are coming along but I fear I let the nutes get too low for a bit.





But here’s s the inaugural cuke from this garden







Which I enjoyed last night along with a Gypsy sweet pepper from outside

[Shawn]

Look at those great cukes and that plate looks so good!  How did you like the taste.

Yay Mary!  Your culinary presentation always looks great! I bet you are a great cook!

[MaryL]

Thanks guys!  I loved the taste of it. I should’ve picked it earlier so there are a few seeds, but it still wasn’t bitter at all which is usually the bigger problem. So I’m very happy with the taste!

[MaryL]

My cukes got spotty again. This was taken February 8.





Someone said it was a form of mildew and to use a fungicide. So I bought a copper fungicide and sprayed it. This was taken February 24. Looks the same as the February 8 photo.





And yesterday it still looked bad (actually worse!) after 2 or 3 applications, but there was a sign of new growth without spots.













So I cut off all the affected leaves and sprayed again. Here we are with the new growth only. I am cautiously optimistic.

[Shawn]

That new growth looks great!  I will have to remember that copper stuff if I ever grow again.  I mean I plan on it but my Easter Eggs are in my ultra at the moment.,

[MaryL]

A successful rebound!  In addition to the clean new foliage, I now have a bunch of new flowers!

[Shawn]

Oh My, these look fabulous!

[MaryL]

Thank you!  On closer inspection I spied a couple of spots - very few, but I gave it another few squirts of fungicide. Then I waited a few hours before adding food.

[MaryL]

Back to life!  And many flowers have become baby cukes.  Happy dance!

[Shawn]

I am thrilled for you MaryL.  They are looking great.  I am going to restart mine after my Easter Eggs are done.

[MaryL]

This quickly went from being really good (March 19) to really unhealthy again (April 3).  I sprayed it again with fungicide about a week ago, maybe longer, but I’m afraid this might be it. 

[Shawn]

That's sad.  Aft least you got several nice cukes

[MaryL]

I did, didn’t I?!  And, I just realized I planted this on October 29 - over 5 months ago!  Now I don’t feel so bad. Time is just up on this one. I will definitely replant because I really enjoyed having cukes on the regular.  And next time I will be more aware of the “sweating” of the leaves so I can stave off the mildew.