Pavel314 wrote:
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I'm probably cursing myself by posting this, but we've been planting both summer and winter squash for years and had no problem with borers or bugs. Maybe they don't come as far north or east as Maryland.

i hope not! since we are much further north than Maryland
i'm pretty sure the cold is not the issue.

perhaps nobody else around there grows them?

we have fields of them around in various places
(not close to us, but probably close enough).


songbird