Post Your Garden Failures Here!

[baymule]

You know how sometimes things just go all wrong? No matter what you do? We have all had those frustrations and now take pictures and let us sympathize with you!

These are my cucumbers. Normally I have beautiful cucumbers all summer long. I pound rebar posts in the dirt and web them with hay string. Last year we had over 2 months straight of over 100 degrees and EVERYTHING in the garden died. Things looked better this year with rain! Real actual rain! So I made a real nice trellis for the cucumbers out of concrete wire. They took off, we got several yummy cucumbers, then production stopped. The vines looked yellow and some turned brown and died. We never really got very many cucumbers and now it looks like they are toasted, done. They are planted next to the driveway, as is all my garden, maybe the heat from the concrete helped their demise.

 

[lesa]

Sorry! Sometime mother nature just doesn't cooperate! I would take a close look at those plants for cucumber beetles. They spread a bacteria that results in plants looking a lot like yours..Still too early in the season for me to report failures- but I am sure they will arrive! Happy Gardening!

 

[Greenthumb18]

baymule,
If it makes you feel better, I still have cucumber seedlings. I had to re-plant seeds twice because of slugs that ate away the plant. I wonder if you could re-plant, if anything you'll have a late summer crop.
As long as you can solve what the problem was, you can prevent it from happening again.

Hope this helps!

 

[The Mama Chicken]

My cucumbers looked just like that before I pulled them out. Between the squash bugs and the cucumber beetles, they didn't have a chance. Neither did my zucchini, yellow squash, patty pan, or my acorn squash. Then there was the corn earworms, and the crickets. And don't get me started on the bermuda and sudan grasses trying to take over, or the bindweed that keeps trying to creep in. I had pretty much every problem that I expected after starting a new garden in what used to be a hay field and a few more I never thought of.

 

[desertlady]

some of my cucumbers are just like that ! I think its caused by wind . I have another surviving cumbers hiding in my crowded garden. they are doing well so far !! Yes I replanted some more seeds today to keep them going ! :watering

 

[baymule]

Ok, let's see some pictures of your flops! Go take pics of what the bugs ate, the wilted, the anemic, the dying and brown crunchy leaves.

 

[Carol Dee]

Ok, let's see some pictures of your flops! Go take pics of what the bugs ate, the wilted, the anemic, the dying and brown crunchy leaves.

ohhh you are SADISTIC.

 

[Kassaundra]

Sorry! Sometime mother nature just doesn't cooperate! I would take a close look at those plants for cucumber beetles. They spread a bacteria that results in plants looking a lot like yours..Still too early in the season for me to report failures- but I am sure they will arrive! Happy Gardening!

That is exactly what I was thinking either cuke beetles or squash bugs.

 

[seedcorn]

If I started posting pix of my failures, I would never get done posting. Now posting pix of what I did correct, that would be a very short file.

 

[catjac1975]

Yellow striped cucumber beetles spread a virus that looks like what you are showing. Or does your extreme heat cause this???? I would sterilize the fence with a spray of beach and water. Do you have time to replant? I would think you do.