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RE: Zucchini

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I've heard that this works, but the Squash borer season around here is 11
months wide...

What I have never found is a picture of what a Squash Borer Moth looks like.
I would almost be happy to sit up nights swatting them out of the air.


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doreen Howard [d*@fgi.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 1999 4:08 PM
> To: Betz, Richard; sqft@listbot.com
> Subject: Re: Zucchini
>
>
> Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
>
> More than 10 years ago, there was an article in Organic Gardening about
> outwitting destructive bugs such as squash borers.  Their remedy was to
> plant summer squash (including zucchini) two weeks before the normal date
> (and hope that the weather cooperated) and to plant a second crop three
> weeks after the normal planting date.  The theory was that squash
> borers run
> in cycles, and by planting outside the normal time frame, a crop
> was spared
> most of the damage by borers at their prime.


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