I don't think there is much point in bothering with those plants. Maybe you can still buy some plants somewhere, or direct-seed again.

Flea-beetles, IME, are not as much of a problem if you can keep the soil surface moist, either with mulch or closely spaced plants so that the soil surface is shaded.

:-(

Another year as a garden failure. Sigh.

This bed gets some afternoon shade, but the flea beetles are contesting as one of the 10 Biblical plagues this year.

If you have the room, you can still give them a chance to live. I suggest you look more specifically at what might work better than what you are using which is broad spectrum. Pest management is complex. If you want to learn, a good place to start is here:

Integrated Pest Management
This lecture is presented in two parts. Each part is 90-minutes in length. Recorded in Sacramento County in California's Sacramento Valley, this lecture is by Mary Louise Flint, Ph.D., Director, IPM Education and Publications, UC Statewide IPM Project and Extension Entomologist & Cooperative Extension Specialist.

Education:
B.S. Plant Science, University of California, Davis
Ph.D. Entomology, University of California, Berkeley

Appointment:
100% Cooperative Extension

Research Interests:
Integrated pest management of landscape, agricultural and garden pests; biological control of arthropod pests; alternatives to pesticides; adoption of alternative practices by practitioners; innovative delivery of pest management information.

Topics discussed in the Integrated Pest Management Lecture:

* IPM references and resources
* Preventing pest problems
* Natural common enemies
* Making less toxic pesticide choices
* Controlling aphids, scales, caterpillars, coddling moths, tree borers, snails and slugs, and lawn insects.

You can watch the programs now online:

Just make sure you have Real Player installed or download it free.

Integrated Pest Management Part1 90 minutes

Integrated Pest Management Part 2 90 minutes

You'll want to bookmark the following link to Professor Flint's Lab Research on:
Controlling Pests in Gardens and Landscapes: Vegetables and Melons

I promise you'll learn one or two things to put in your gardening bag of pest management arsenals.

;)

Sounds like a cutworm got your canteloupe. They got a few of my tomatoes this year, and now I have a personal vendetta. I guess they curl their bodies around plant stems and just cut them off. My dad said that putting a toothpick or nail alongside the plant stem will prevent the cutoff, because they won't be able to wrap around and finish the job. A lot of the folks here swear by paper towel, etc, tubes to stop them, too. I like the toothpick or paper tube option because they are biodegradable, and I'd prefer not to have random nails floating around in my garden soil.

I concur with others - it's not too late to plant new zucchini plants.

Cutworms are a possibility. I have seen them in that bed. I had to look them up to find out what they were, and after that the next one I found got smashed with a rock.

I've been saving cardboard tubing. I'll start using that.

I see you guys are in the same zone as me. Zone 6. I bought some zuchinni seeds at Kmart yesterday. They're burpee brand. I was gonna put them in the soil and see if they take off. I hope it's not too late. I have no idea what I'm doing, it's purely experimental at this point in the season. I cant find any more vegetable plants in the stores here in Allentown, PA apart from the basic tomatoes and pepper varieties. I also grabbed some pumpkin seeds and will throw those in too. Last year they didnt come up but I'm experimenting.