My squash and zucchini is under attack...

[Guest Virginia Dawn]

This happens every year just when I'm beginning to think my plants will be producing forever. It's some kind of borer. Is there anything that can be done, now or in the future?

[Closeacademy]

My husband covers the vines with row covers until they bloom and then he checks under the leaves every week for the little orange eggs. He also puts branches of the plant under dirt so that if one part of the plant gets it we may still have another part that is ok.

 

Good luck next year.:001_smile:

[Guest Virginia Dawn]

Oh my, you mean those little orange eggs that are occasionally on the leaves turn into what is killing my plants? I feel like a fool.

 

Thank you.

[NCMom]

the WHOLE time the plant is alive. They have moved from summer squash to pumpkins here and I'm sure cukes are next. Sigh...:glare:

 

at least you got some squash though!

Georgia (Pollination by hand is always a treat, lol. )

[JennW in SoCal]

I feel your pain!

 

I only am growing a single tomato plant this year, in a very large pot, and the grape tomatoes are almost Roma size. I'd just started enjoying them last week only to wake up yesterday morning to find some varmit had climbed up there and eaten every stinking ripe tomato left on the vine!! Even some of the green ones. Dang varmits! I put the lone plant in there because everything on the ground was being nibbled to nubs.

 

Them coyotes, hawks and owls just ain't keeping up with the rabbits, rats, possums and racoons. And I live in suburbs in Southern California!! I never thought I'd be keeping such a watch on local wildlife.

 

Our grape vine is heavy with fruit that won't be ripe until next month. Maybe there will be enough that the varmits will leave enough to share with us.

 

Just kills you to wind up buying it all at the grocery store, doesn't it?