Re: Welcome to the new list

**Margaret Lauterbach melauter@earthlink.net>**

We were involved building raised beds in my garden this year and got the 
ground-dwelling squash (including zucchini) in late. We had one of those 
situations that, after a tractor scraped out pathways between my raised 
beds and ridged up the soil, there was too much soil to remain in a ridge 
we could build containment boxes around, so he started a pile of soil off 
to the side. We ended up with four 17X4 foot beds, and had a long ridge of 
extra soil. So DH built containment boxes around two parts of the ridge and 
we hired a high school kid to shovel out paths for my electric scooter. 
Then we had a really big mountain of good topsoil.  In one of these extra 
beds I planted two hills of Zephyr summer squash from Johnny's.  That stuff 
is good, and just about as prolific as zucchini. We're drowning in it, have 
frozen 12 packages and eaten several meals of it.  It's a yellow 
straightneck squash with a green-tipped end, creamy, not as seedy as 
zuke.  And knock on wood, I haven't seen any squash bugs on it.  Margaret L

>Between the squase vine borer AND the squash bugs...."We have no zucchini
>here!"
>
>Hubby even broke down and bought a zucch at the store yesterday!  Egads!!!!
>
>We had lovely zucks for a few weeks and now no more.  Even with spraying and
>hunting borers and injecting vines with BT.
>
>Hubby even planted the dreaded loufa sponge, knowing that it has a rep for
>taking over.  Well it bit the big one last week.
>
>Denese (near Cincinnati)
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