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Message: [QUOTE="MiTmite9, post: 221464, member: 5940"] You have cucumbers in December? Where do you live? My organic cuke plants were **so awesome** this summer (CA), I grew organic bell peppers, too, and then canned loads of pickle relish. After such magnificent production, the plant leaves eventually succumbed to mildew and plants were goners by late November. For any future cucumber plantings, I highly suggest organic compost and worm castings as soil amendments. You also really need to up your game on attracting birds to act as aphid predators. Healthy balance in the garden is everything. The ladybug/beetle solution is almost always a bust, because in order to feed the ladybugs you have to have a ridiculous amount of aphids on your plants. Adults will quickly move on if there's not enough food for them. Pro-tip: Ladybug larvae consume 10 times the amount of aphids compared to the amount eaten by the adult bugs. [/QUOTE]