Bugs…

[snapping turtle]

I'm glad you put in the part about making a tea with it. I was picturing you walking the garden with a big ol' chaw in your cheek and spitting.

“Chief I was just wondering that mangy red bone hound has no place to go either “

 

[Frosty]

I’m still thinking gasoline and a match will just be easier However these pumpkins started late and aren’t producing so I’ll likely dig them up and dispose of them, hopefully taking the little ******* with them!

 

[Frosty]

Dug up the pumpkin vine, drug it to the driveway, and let go in a blaze of glory I figured if the little suckers are impervious to most poison they’re not impervious to lighter fluid and a match….

 

[tmschuller]

Dug up the pumpkin vine, drug it to the driveway, and let go in a blaze of glory I figured if the little suckers are impervious to most poison they’re not impervious to lighter fluid and a match….

I found some of those on my zucchini plants.. ehhhh time for fire!

 

[bwframe]

 

[hooky]

Well, today I learned something. Time to get a spray bottle loaded up with HD dish soap and and a little water.

 

[Frosty]

My boy has a new hobby

 

[DoggyDaddy]

My boy has a new hobby

And it's free, and environmentally friendly!

 

[Frosty]

And it's free, and environmentally friendly!

And it gets him out of the house! He’s become quite the bum lately

 

[bwframe]

And it gets him out of the house! He’s become quite the bum lately

I didn't want to say anything, but since you brought it up...

...that boy looks like he needs to get out in the sun a little more.

 

[Frosty]

I didn't want to say anything, but since you brought it up...

...that boy looks like he needs to get out in the sun a little more.

Yeah, he does. I’m going to have to buy him a leash and drag him out! I got a tree stump that needs to go, that might be a good job for him…

 

[hooky]

And it gets him out of the house! He’s become quite the bum lately

Does his mom know he's running around outside in his socks? Mine would have snatched me bald for that.

 

[Frosty]

Does his mom know he's running around outside in his socks? Mine would have snatched me bald for that.

Honestly I was just glad he had pants on!

 

[DeadeyeChrista'sdad]

Honestly I was just glad he had pants on!

So already showing signs of being a trained INGO professional?

 

[Frosty]

So already showing signs of being a trained INGO professional?

I figure in a few years he’ll be sitting out front, smoking a cigar with me, in his underwear… I’m just trying to raise the boy up right!

 

[bwframe]

I've started battling

...Keep an eye out for these when you are inspecting...

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The vine borers are often there when the squash bugs are.


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I missed seeing these. Seeing this now though...



I found the still small vine borer and cut it in half. Trying to save the vine now, burying the surgery section in compost, under a pile of shredded box mulch. We will see?...

I have been lucky, so far not seeing squash bugs. I do have spotted cucumber beatles eating the squash blossoms and leaves. I started vacuuming them up this evening and have some yellow sticky traps on the way from Amazon.


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[hooky]

I've started battling


I missed seeing these.View attachment 222881 Seeing this now though...

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I found the still small vine borer and cut it in half. Trying to save the vine now, burying the surgery section in compost, under a pile of shredded box mulch. We will see?...

I have been lucky, so far not seeing squash bugs. I do have spotted cucumber beatles eating the squash blossoms and leaves. I started vacuuming them up this evening and have some yellow sticky traps on the way from Amazon.


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Been gone for a week and came home to all my cukes and zukes looking like that. Bummed.

 

[bwframe]

Been gone for a week and came home to all my cukes and zukes looking like that. Bummed.

I hate to say much yet, as I'm heading out to inspect the garden now. I think I might have successfully aborted the borers from two vines? There were good results as of yesterday, with the wilted leaves recovering. Middle of the day sun though, the effected vines still show sign of not being completely normal like the rest.


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[MRockwell]

 

[bwframe]

Three more vine borer abortions....