Zucchini Squash Vine Rot Photos
 

For those of you who are not 'lucky' enough to have seen this problem
yourselves, here you go:

http://personal.bellsouth.net/d/r/drseng/ZucStems

The link is to a handful of photos I took of my plants. It happens
every year and I've not done any of the preventive measures for vine
borers (if that's what it is).

--Dale--