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Agree they are most probably flea beetles but there is no way to know what it is from just your description.
If it is flea beetles then there is no need to do anything. It is an appearance issue only. Plus no need to assume that if one plant has some damage that "the rest of the plants get attacked" too. It doesn't work that way. :)
For future reference keep in mind that plant leaves get holes in them for all sorts of reasons and 99% of the time it is no problem.
Dave
Corn is done after about one week harvest. I need about 7 plantings for season long production. Some melons are pretty much done in a few weeks of harvest. I've been able to harvest Star Brite watermelon for about 4 months off the same plants. But it takes careful watering, proper fertilization, a very early start, and more importantly the right climate.....a long season, not too hot mid summer, but warm enough for 6-7 months, ave above 60F.
This post was edited by fruitnut on Fri, Jul 12, 13 at 12:25
Fruitnut gave a great answer.
Corn is a one shot plant. Watermelons can have more than 1 litter.
I have had 2 settings of watermelons easily here in Indiana on early started plants that were very healthy......started to get three on one.
Zuccchini are bush plants. There are vining squash that are used as zucchini substitutes. The aformentioned English marrows for example ( rarely see one in North America tho) . Tatume/calabacita is a C.pepo vining squash that is used as zuke substitute. Trombocino (C. moshata) is a butternut type most often used as a zucchini substitute. All of these are winter squash which are used as summer squash. Another zucchini subtitute that is vining is Cucuzza which is a gourd (Lagenaria siceraria). Most winter squash includingthe pumpkin type can be used with varying degrees of acceptance as zucchini substitutes.
No melon plant is going to produce anything in one month. You (and I) planted them about a month late this year. (Assuming your zone 5 is like my zone 5.)
I had snow on May 1, and still had last year's garden standing out there when I started prepping for this year.
I have replanted muskmelons a half dozen times to replace those broken off by wind. Now have some muskmelon vines about 6' long, and blooming. Watermelons are not doing anything. I guess I have disease problems, and should just give up on them.
"Zone 5" does not convey as much information as you may think it does. If you disclosed your location on your home page, you might have a neighbor give you some better information.
newyorkrita,
That looks great!! I garden exclusively in containers and raised beds. I cut down on the expense of potting mix by mixing 50% potting mix with pine bark fines and perlite. Dump it all in a cement mix bin and stir with a garden hoe. (well DH does the mixing)
I still need more space for extra containers but DH wants to keep his boxwood bushes.
DL
Radish for sure.
I also think it is winter/fall radish, since has white flowers. Red radishes normally have pink flowers. Right now I happened to have both of them in my garden. The white flowered one is from last winter's Chinese/ Korean radishes.
Another thing: When radishes bolt they grow quite tall an big.
ltilton, I looked up the tromboncino squash and you're right, it does look like my plant. Time will tell, as you said. I will find it very weird if that's what it turns out to be, as I have never heard of this variety, let alone planted it on purpose! I started all my plants from seeds and all I bought was regular old zucchini seeds, crookneck squash seeds and pumpkin seeds. If it is a tromboncino squash, it would have had to fallen into the wrong package on accident.
OHHH I just remembered that my daughter brought home from her kindergarten class what I was told was a pumpkin plant. This could very well be that plant. I don't remember where I planted it. So if this was a pumpkin, does anybody know which variety it may be? Now I can't wait for it to grow something so I can solve this mystery!
He he. Just talk to them. Play music for them. Calm them down. They're likely getting freaked by overindulgent caretakers.
But the word "stressed" is certainly a funny one for plants. That is, instead of saying that they are starved, drowned, baked, frozen, or poisoned. I guess we could go around to hospital emergency rooms and diagnose the problems we see there as "stress".
uscjusto - Is your variety perchance the Burpee SWEET Burpless Hybrid?
There are a whole lot of cukes on the Burpee site with "burpless" in their name, but I can't see one specificially called "burpee burpless hybrid." The SWEET burpless hybrid, otoh, is described as having mostly female flowers, ie it's at least semi-gynoecious.
All the rain is forcing earwigs upward this year, and I'm finding them in unlikely places. They hate soap spray, but so do some plants so be careful -- the spray can do more damage than earwigs, which make a mess but do minimal damage to plants. When I find a bunch of earwigs I call in the chickens. If I brush the earwigs to the ground, the chickens like to eat them.
How about pouring a kettle of boiling water over the stalks after you pull them out? I'd think that would neutralize any pests and help speed decomposition at the same time. Then you wouldn't have to waste the greens because of the eggs.
That's not a bad idea kathy. Fill a 5 gal bucket up with boiling water and dunk the whole plant in it for a few minutes.
Kevin