i think sqush bugs are going to win

[bj taylor]

they've really invaded by garden this year. they're going to get my squash & cucumbers & my one pumpkin. dratted beasts

 

[vfem]

I've planted dill and that helps keep them away, I also use radish as a trap crop and it works great for me

 

[catjac1975]

Plant out seeds now. Sometimes you can miss the cycle in a later crop. Rotenone works on the nymphs.

 

[ducks4you]

Plant out seeds now. Sometimes you can miss the cycle in a later crop. Rotenone works on the nymphs.

I'm planting MINE late, too. I realized that when I got my garden in REALLY LATE, like end of June, I was swimming in cucumbers. I had over 40 plants. I was finding yellow cucumber and throwing them to my horses rather than let them rot!

 

[vfem]

You can do this with squash luke zukes too that get vine borers. We'll get another planting in here early July to miss those buggies who get my early plants.

I still pick and spread dried dill around my squash and cukes now though.

 

[baymule]

I fixin' to plant squash again. Borers are in my squash despite my efforts to keep them out. I have radishes blooming and going to seed because I read about them being a trap crop. The bugs must have not got that memo because the radishes are HUGE and going to seed. Grumble......I should have eaten those radishes......grumble.....

I read somewhere about wrapping the squash vine in hose. I don't wear them, but if it would keep the %%^#$ borers out, heck-fire I'll go buy some!

 

[digitS']

BJ, are you talking about the bug that scurries under the stem when it sees you? It is a beetle. Or, the one that burrows into a stem - a borer? It stays in there as a caterpillar-like critter.

If the beetle, Pyrethrum has worked fairly well when I've found them. They can't hide from it very well but you will probably need to be back another time or 2 to kill all of them.

The vine borer hasn't shown up here. (digitS' knocking on wood)

Steve