Your plans for dealing with squash bugs and vine borers

Got Worms? · August 29, 2014

It's been a bad year for all my cucurbits. I've pulled my zukes because of the SVBs. Cukes are not doing so well either.

Unable to take care of the over planting that I did this year, as I came down with a really bad respiratory infection, I'll have to be unmerciful, next year when I crack down on all those buggers that got back into the soil to pupate.

I'm hoping that tilling the soil, leaving it bare, and baiting the birds in (with bread crumbs) for a couple of weeks will help.

Next spring I plan on using rotation, row covers and close inspection to head them off. Being in N.Y. I only have to deal with one hatch, so that's a big plus. I usually don't have this much trouble, but the bugs seem to be having a bumper year.

Charlie

August 29, 2014	#20
Got Worms? Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: NY Zone 5b/6a Posts: 546	It's been a bad year for all my cucurbits. I've pulled my zukes because of the SVBs. Cukes are not doing so well either. Unable to take care of the over planting that I did this year, as I came down with a really bad respiratory infection, I'll have to be unmerciful, next year when I crack down on all those buggers that got back into the soil to pupate. I'm hoping that tilling the soil, leaving it bare, and baiting the birds in (with bread crumbs) for a couple of weeks will help. Next spring I plan on using rotation, row covers and close inspection to head them off. Being in N.Y. I only have to deal with one hatch, so that's a big plus. I usually don't have this much trouble, but the bugs seem to be having a bumper year. Charlie