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phorbin · 09-05-2008, 03:24 PM posted to rec.gardens.edible,rec.gardens

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How do you stop them from killing the vines? I tried to cover the vines
with
soil but that didn't work. I tried Sevin dust. That didn't work either.
What
are you doing that works? We are growing squash, water mellons and
cantalopes.

Are you talking about them being already in the vines and boring?

If possible I'd like to keep them out of the vines. The seedlings just came
up the other day.

Ah, OK.

You could be somewhere, where your squash is already in the ground and
well along. The newsgroup is worldwide and your posts appear to be
coming through datemas.de which makes it look like you're in Germany.

I only know our area, and of that I only know our garden well and it
changes according to the weather and climate.

If they're already in the vines, slit the vine near the point of entry,
remove the borers and then immediately cover the slit with earth. The
vine should put down roots at that point.

Oh I heard about this, but they never rooted. They'd wilt and die. Finding
where the borer is in the vine is not so easy even when the hole is found.

Could it be that the vines were infected?

I'm pretty sure my wife watered at the covered, damage point but I'd
have to ask her, and she's not here right now.

I'd wonder if encouraging rooting at different points along the length
of a vine would be helpful. (Anyone care to comment?) We had one that
was virtually destroyed at the original root butproduced well through
the season from roots along its length.

Google is your friend.

What I like about Google is that it throws up information for farmers as
well as gardeners... We have something between 80 and 120 books on
gardening but they don't deal with the issues in quite the same way.