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Re: Introduction & Zucchini

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Ed wrote:

>I'm in Rockville, zone 6/7.  Just checked my peas today and they are over an
>inch out of the ground already. I warm the soil in advance with clear plastic
>... pre-sprout the peas indoors ... and put them in the soil under two
>layers of
>row covers.

I've never pre-sprouted my peas, but I can see that would hasten things.
My peas are finally up, but it took a good two weeks. I guess I better put
up that trellis soon (not today, though, since it's raining. sigh)

>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)

I'm just outside Baltimore, so I wonder if the squash vine borer quits here
at about the same time? I might try a row cover until then --but I think
I'll still start an extra plant or two later, just in case!

Judi

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Judi Hammett
Baltimore, Maryland USA
judi@abs.net
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