Re: Zucchini

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• To: Jeff Taylor <j*@indiana.edu>
• Subject: Re: Zucchini
• From: "* C* F* <e*@worldnet.att.net>
• Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 00:52:32 -0400
• References: <Pine.HPP.3.96.990407111121.20716D-100000@falstaff.ucs.indiana.edu>

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Jeff Taylor wrote:

> Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
>
> I, too, have lost many of my Zukes to the dreaded Squash Vine Borers.
> I am going to try "floating row covers" this year and hope for the
> best.

The squash vine borer stops laying its eggs at about the same time each
year .. that time depending on your location. It is the eggs that hatch
into worms that bore into the stem.

Contact your Cooperative Extension and find out when that time occurs in
your area.

Start your plants a few weeks before that time and set them out under a
row cover until the blossoms  need to be polinated .... no more squash
vine borer problem.

Ed  Maryland zone 6/7  (where the borer quits about July 4)


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