Hello,

So here in cool Whidbey Island we planted cucumber starts (Bonnie) from Walmart. They never took started to grow much and then they started wilting bad. One finally bit the dust and so I dug it up and in the base of the rotting stem, I found several small maggots inside! I've never had problems with that ever in my garden and am sure that the cucumber seedlings were already with the maggots when they were purchased.

As luck would have it, I have a lot of healthy cucumber seedlings I started from seed ready to plant. However, I do want a repeat of what happened. I've read to use diatomaceous earth but how does that work on the maggots that are already I'm the soil? Or maybe I'm confused about it.

Z