That's one way to confuse them; put them in with other plants. There
are also a lot of flowers that are said to repel them...marigolds,
bee balm, borage, and others I can't remember. I planted a lot of
flowers with the squash. The woodchucks gnawed at a lot of mine,
which opened them up to the slugs. The only thing they didn't touch
were the little Baby Boo pumpkins (decorative), so I have a lot of
those. Too bad they aren't very edible.
I've purposely let the grass and weeds grow to hide the squash from
the woodchucks (that's my story and I'm sticking to it), and I
haven't wanted to make paths in to the plants for the woodchucks to
follow, so I won't really know what I have until frost kills the
vines (and weeds). The vines themselves are healthy.
Lynn Wigglesworth Tioga Co. PA ----- Original Message ----- From:
"Gil White" <gil.white AT xplornet.com> To:
<homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 9:14
AM Subject: Re: [Homestead] squash bugs was Re: Irony
I must have missed that post. How do I go about confusing the
little bleepers?
This is the first year that I've ever seen a squash bug ( cucumber
beetles, potato beetles, hornworms, aphids - yes, never a squash
bug).
In real terms I've probably done more damage knocking fruit off the
vines then they have munching the leaves, but as the weather cools
they've started trying to gnaw through the skins of some of them.
Hardly scientific but so far they seem to prefer the variety called
"Sweet Dumpling" followed by "Acorn". I'm not sure if they haven't
found the Butternut yet amongst the tomato vines or they naturally
stay away from those.
Gil
===================================================== On Sep 11,
2009, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:
and a one from Lynn on confusing squash bugs. My squash bug plans
has worked! (or maybe it's the unusual weather) After having my
plants killed by squash bugs and the virus they carry for 3 or 4 years in a row, I have squash plants everywhere this year and
haven't seen a single bug. This year it's woodchucks after my
squash.
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