Pumpkin Patch
 

I finally got the pumpkin patch tilled and seeded 15 hills with 10 varieties of pumpkins and winter squash.

Pumpkin Patch
 

On 06/10/2018 06:37 PM, Pavel314 wrote:
I finally got the pumpkin patch tilled and seeded 15 hills with 10 varieties of pumpkins and winter squash.


Do you have issues with Squash bugs in your pumpkin patch?

Pumpkin Patch
 

On 6/11/2018 12:42 PM, T wrote:
On 06/10/2018 06:37 PM, Pavel314 wrote:
I finally got the pumpkin patch tilled and seeded 15 hills with 10
varieties of pumpkins and winter squash.


Do you have issues with Squash bugs in your pumpkin patch?

Â* I just a little while ago squashed a bunch of babies on an acorn
squash plant ... must have missed that patch of eggs . I try to go out
and check for eggs and just generally check the garden out most mornings
before the sun comes up over the trees . It's cooler then ... yesterday
I noticed a sweet and very nice aroma , turned out it's coming from the
flowers of the white greasy beans . I'm going to have to be very careful
to keep the fence closed and energized ... there's deers in them thar
woods . And they'll decimate a bean patch in a heartbeat .

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Yes , I'm old
and crochety .
Get off my lawn !

Pumpkin Patch
 

On Monday, June 11, 2018 at 1:42:23 PM UTC-4, T wrote:
On 06/10/2018 06:37 PM, Pavel314 wrote:
I finally got the pumpkin patch tilled and seeded 15 hills with 10 varieties of pumpkins and winter squash.


Do you have issues with Squash bugs in your pumpkin patch?

Not a major problem. Every few years something starts eating the plants so I give them a light spray of insecticide. We try not to spray unless absolutely necessary to save the crop.

Pumpkin Patch
 

On 6/11/2018 8:46 PM, Pavel314 wrote:
On Monday, June 11, 2018 at 1:42:23 PM UTC-4, T wrote:
On 06/10/2018 06:37 PM, Pavel314 wrote:
I finally got the pumpkin patch tilled and seeded 15 hills with 10 varieties of pumpkins and winter squash.

Do you have issues with Squash bugs in your pumpkin patch?
Not a major problem. Every few years something starts eating the plants so I give them a light spray of insecticide. We try not to spray unless absolutely necessary to save the crop.

Â* I have bee hives less than 30 feet away ... kinda limits my choices .
No insecticides while the plants are blooming . And they are , mostly
male flowers right now but I can see some females forming .

--
Snag
Yes , I'm old
and crochety .
Get off my lawn !