Things I Have Learned From My "If Ya Tend 'em They Die Punkin Patch

[curly_kate]

Catjac - squash bugs don't bother them? I'll need to try them if that's the case.

 

[catjac1975]

I do not have a large squash bug population. The reasons I have posted on the squash bug discussion. I do get some but I have grown rumbo for years without any pest or disease damage to it. It is so sweet and delicious.I think pests have a hierarchy of what they like to eat. For instance. Woodchucks eat all of my friends tomatoes. They do not touch mine because I grow other more loved crops. Rumbo is extra prickly in the way squash is. Maybe the squash bugs can't get to it??? Or they prefer other varieties.

Catjac - squash bugs don't bother them? I'll need to try them if that's the case.

 

[desertlady]

If you really want shade there is a squash that I love above all the rest. It grows like a pumpkin but with bigger more lush leaves. I have never seen a pest on it. It is the Rumbo. You have to be careful not to over plant or it will become the squash that ate your garden. I had 150 of the squash last summer not counting the ones I gave to the chickens and the dozens more it was trying to produce when the frost finally hit. I gave them away, ate and froze a ton fed them to the chickens and brought them to a soup kitchen. Some are so big you can barely pick them up.

I will love to have vines ! (I didnt think of it) I will do it next year ! seriously I need shades

http://www.theeasygarden.com/forum/uploads/7100_rumbo.jpg

THANK YOU I WILL PLANT THOSE NEXT TIME!!!!!!