There are modern hybrids, with some resistance to certain types of disease primarily the mildews.A few will have some resistance to other diseases like mosaic, anthracnose. Olympian comes to mind. General Lee handles all the diseases that I have.
I am not organic, so squash bugs are a minor niusance for me. If you prefer organic this link may help.

Here is a link that might be useful: Squash bug control

County Fair cukes are reportedly the only cuke that's resistant to the bacterial wilt carried by cucumber beetles. I switched to them after losing a crop of Straight Eights, and they thrived. I'm a big fan...they set mostly female flowers and they don't require a pollinator.

Ed

Why do so few companies carry County Fair? I always have to make one special order from a nursery from which I don't buy anything else just to get a packet, usually Jungs. Neither Johnny's, Territorial nor Pinetree carry it, and they do carry hybrid seeds.

Lacey, I've wondered that too. I order mine from Totally Tomatoes and I usually order more than I need in case the supplier has a crop failure--that way I can go a couple of years on my own.

Related question.

Does anybody have an idea about cucumbers resistent to squash vine borer? I lost everything last year due to SVB. I hear there are winter squash varities which are resistent, but havent hear about cucumbers. Any ideas?

You may want to take another look. Nevr had SVB bother a Cucumber. No evidence in the literature either. Insect pests of cukes are cucumber beetles, squash bugs, aphids and pickle worms. Worst is the cuke beetle because it is a vector of bacterial wilt.

Here is a link that might be useful: Controlling cuke problems

I checked Thompson & Morgan for the Country Fair Cuke Seeds. Out of stock. Hopefully they get more in!

I saw on Burpee's site that Sweet Burpless Hyrbrid is resistant to a lot of diseases. I wonder if it is resitant to bacterial wilt.

I had bacterial wilt occur in 4 different types of cucmber plants last year - Burpee Hybrid II, Burpee Spacemaster, Chelsea English Long (Renee's Garden Seed), Lemon Cucmber (Renee's GArden Seed - I think).

I am trying to prevent this from happening again. I guess crop roataion won't help in this case anyway, huh?

Thanks for the advice on the Country Fair cukes, gratefuled. I will keep my eyes open for them.

Park Seed has the County Fair cukes this year.

Bonnie

Concur with Farmadilla's comments regarding insect pests. Cucumber beetles (especially striped) and the BW they carry are the usual cause of plant death. Personally, I have never seen squash bugs or borers attack cucumber plants.

Unfortunately, cuke beetles are hard to deal with. They can locate vine crops by scent, and will fly in from adjoining areas... so crop rotation is usually ineffective. Covering the young plants with floating row cover until they begin to blossom will reduce the losses, but the beetles will still attack once it is removed.

Whenever this topic comes up, the discussion usually revolves around hybrids... with good reason, since much of the hybrid breeding has been done to impart disease resistance. There are, however, disease-resistant open pollinated varieties.

An SSE member in Indiana has been attempting for several years to breed BW resistance into several OP cultivars, using back crossing with the resistant USDA accession "Myanmar #17". Among the varieties he lists currently are BW resistant versions of "Dekah", "Wautoma", "White Long", and "WI 5207". I have not tried any of these, so I don't know how if/how much they differ from the originals.

I do, however, grow the original WI 5207, bred by Dr. Jack Staub of the University of Wisconsin. My source (the same breeder mentioned above) reported that it is resistant to: scab, CMV (mosaic), anthracnose, DM, PM, FW, and both angular & target leaf spot. I'm sure the degree of resistance varies, but it is an impressive package nonetheless. It also apparently possesses some resistance of its own to BW, since I have only lost a few plants to it in the last 3 years. All of the other varieties I have grown have suffered losses of 50% or more due to BW.

Thanks all.

By the way, cross T&M off the list of carriers of Country Fair Cucumbers. They have discountinued this variety.