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  • From: "Errol Castens" <castens AT nepower.coop>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] squash vines
  • Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:10:59 -0500 (CDT)

Since squash borers seem to love summer squashes -- especially yellow
crookneck -- maybe planting a succession of those around the perimeter of
your pumpkins would help.

Errol Castens
Oxford, Mississippi
Zone 7 (where the thermometer on the front porch said only 105F today, but
the one under deck out back said 111)

On Wed, August 15, 2007 6:45 pm, Shawnee Flowerfarmer said:
>This year, my pumpkin vines have succumbed to Mr. Squash Vine Borer and
Hungry Groundhogs; Does anyone have suggestions to fight the vine
borer?(Must be historically accurate, so no chemicals. The garden is
pre-1850's).






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