Cucicide

The Great Tomatocide of 2011 was caused by hot, salty compost. Lost a combined total of about fifty plants due to the compost still being very active and hot and having an unusually high salt content (that latter fact got us a refund for the four yards).

But the cucumbers we planted for our fall garden in what had been the premature graves of a half dozen tomato plants were doing great, spreading out on the SRM film left behind from the earlier transplants. I just treated each hole in the film as a mound and put a few seeds in each.

Then, seemingly overnight, they just died. To all appearances they were scalded to death or something.

These bugs, I take it, carry some sort of Mad Cucumber Disease or something like that.
Organic gardening is all good and well, but I think next year I'm going to do some judicious spraying.