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For the second year my cucumber plants a dying from stem rot. The Youtube advisers say tomatoes can be planted deep enough to cover the cotyledons, but cucumbers must be planted shallow so the the stem does not get wet which I have done. What do you think please?
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How are you watering? I dig them in my GH border and sink in milk bottles to water into so that they get watered from underground. Stops the stem getting wet. -
If they are deffo dying look at the thread http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...les_89710.html that explains how to cut the leader off and quickly grow it on, you could have cumbers yet.Potty by name Potty by nature.
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I haven't seen mine in a week so I'm hoping that with all this rain we have been having they have survived.
Update - They are OK don't seemed to have grown much but there again we have had no sun - reformed the moat around them and opened up the soil again so it will drainComment
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Thank you for your replies and I will try cuttings. I am surprised that the one in the ring culture pot 'copped its clogs' because that was only watered around the edge.Comment
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Try planting them on a mound so any water runs away from them.Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poetComment
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Use Pots' technique, it worked for me a couple of years ago!He-Pep!Comment
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