This is the first year that I've grown cucumbers and gherkins from seed rather than plants donated from fellow plotters. Up until about a week ago, they were doing fine. The weather has been good so they've been in pots outside, waiting for us to finish preparing the ground for them. Over the last week, one by one, they are suddenly wilting. Does this sound like root rot? Will it affect the courgettes, pumpkins and squashes in pots nearby? Hard to belive that it's over-watering as last year, our cucumbers were the only thing to survive the Gloucestershire floods.
The stems where they touch the ground are susceptible to rotting in our climate try to keep the actual stem area dry by planting in a slight ridge or dome so that thwe water flows away from rather than towards the stem... try earthing up the wilting one so that it can root from a higher point..
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I think it is still too cold for cucumbers to be outside there has been a northerly wind which has reduced temperatures a lot
Thanks! The smaller seedlings are looking ok, so I'll fetch them in now. ;)