We officially have cucumber beetles. Some would say we should have expected it. We planted cucumbers and the bugs ARE called CUCUMBER beetles for goodness sakes. We should have expected that they go hand in hand. So here we are, picking off the buggers and squashing them every chance we get, but now they are doing real damage and it was time to get serious. So Jason bought some kind of beetle lure and some yellow sticky tape. We'll be checking in daily to see if it actually works. I don't know what is in the lure, but man does it stink. Why would any bug in their right mind be lured in by that smell... then again, there are dung beetles.
We've also purchased some concentrated seaweed concoction that is supposed to give a boost to the cucumbers. You can find it at Johnny's. Make sure it has a cytokinin level over 300 ppm. That's the stuff that is doing all the boosting.
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