whats wrong with these damn cukes??

That looks like cucumber bacterial wilt caused by the bacterium Erwinia tracheiphila. This bacteria lives in the digestive system of the beetles and is spread from plant to plant by feeding striped and spotted cucumber beetles. The bacteria is released through the beetles excrement and enter the plant by the stomata or the wounds created by the beetles. Insects ingest the bacteria when they feed on an infected plant and the cycle continues. There is no cure for bacterium wilt disease and beetles can spread the bacteria from infected plants to healthy plants.

Remove and destroy infected plant material when first noticed.

There are two varieties of cucumber that are resistant to bacterial wilt.. Country Fair 83 and Saladin.

I'd rather let the bugs have mine than use chemicals on my garden, I did go do some major lollypopping on most of my tomato plants today and sprayed almost everything down with a teaspoon of baking soda and a little dish soap per gallon. All the rain we've been getting has gotten the blight/leaf spot/fungal whatever the fuck it is going strong and some powdery mildew on some things like my watermelons and a little on the cucumbers.

Dave's Not Here said:

I'd rather let the bugs have mine than use chemicals on my garden, I did go do some major lollypopping on most of my tomato plants today and sprayed almost everything down with a teaspoon of baking soda and a little dish soap per gallon. All the rain we've been getting has gotten the blight/leaf spot/fungal whatever the fuck it is going strong and some powdery mildew on some things like my watermelons and a little on the cucumbers.

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I usually would agree with you on this. If bugs are really bad ill make a habenero spray but i dont have any ready yet and all i have left is sevin and azamax. The azamax is way to expensive so i used the sevin. Harvest interval is three days so thats not bad. Removed all the bad stugg already.

My lilac's did that this year too. Some did some didn't. Very strange and right next to each other.

Dave's Not Here said:

I'd rather let the bugs have mine than use chemicals on my garden, I did go do some major lollypopping on most of my tomato plants today and sprayed almost everything down with a teaspoon of baking soda and a little dish soap per gallon. All the rain we've been getting has gotten the blight/leaf spot/fungal whatever the fuck it is going strong and some powdery mildew on some things like my watermelons and a little on the cucumbers.

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Yes. It's the insects. They get the stem at the soil base. We had success with foliar feeding compost teas, that worked for a few crops. Once I stopped the foliar feeding the insects were back.