An entire season was lost to these buggers at my old volunteer food bank garden. The MG group handled the situation as follows:
squash borers - make a little collar around the base with tinfoil, paint base with neem oil
squash bugs - no easy solution, nymphs overwinter underground and come up from the soil in huge quantities, do not plant in the same area for 3-4 years
plant after July to miss hatching eggs
cucumber beetles - ugh, agree with Durgan, buy squash from someone else
no problems with cucumbers, the beetle only wilted squash for me
Problems started coming out of no where about 3 years ago. I grew patty pan last year and had no diseases, but really miss peaking under the leaves for the big green zucchs for making bread.
- Lisa
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