My mostly dead, wilt-afflicted plants did yield one little Kajari melon. A lot smaller than some of the ones that set earlier but which didn’t make it. Perfumed kind of like a “plum granny.” Flavor was surprisingly nice for a melon from highly stressed vines—a very good, sweet little honeydew. And if hadn’t been for the bacterial wilt they would’ve been very productive, too. Bummer.
Anyway, will try again next year. Maybe persistently applying kaolin spray (+ spinosad?) to the plants from the get-go will discourage the cucumber beetles and prevent wilt?
