A.J. Andrews

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  • Produce
    Produce By A.J. Andrews November 4th, 2022

    How To Treat Cucumber Blight

    How to Treat Cucumber Blight. Blights include a range of plant diseases that share one common symptom: a slow death. Blights first cause leaves or branches to quickly wilt and stop growing, and later other plant parts may or may not rot. Blights that affect cucurbit vegetables, such as cucumbers (Cucumis sativus), often cause rotting of the vines and fruits. Because blights affect so many different plants, you have to narrow down the potential disorders by identifying the symptoms and matching them with the blights that commonly affect cucumbers, which include gummy stem (Didymella bryoniae), phoma (Phoma cucubitacearum), early or alternaria (Alternaria cucumerina) and phytophthora (Phytophthora capsici).

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  • Produce
    Produce By A.J. Andrews September 6th, 2022

    How To Transplant Moonflowers

    How to Transplant Moonflowers. Moonflowers (Ipomoea alba) do best when started from seed indoors, about six to eight weeks before the last expected frost date, and transplanted outside when the weather warms up. Moonflowers tender vines, so making the transition outdoors as stress-free as possible increases their success rate, and a couple weeks of hardening off before transplanting goes a long way towards minimizing transplant shock. You can transplant seedlings directly to prepared soil, but they have a better chance of surviving if you start them in peat pots and plant the pots in the ground, leaving the root systems undisturbed. (see references 1, 2 and 5)

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