Oh my !

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Ok all

 

Today Aug.5^th 2002 I was brought back to the real world of pumpkin growing. I came home from work and went out to the patch to see my buddies and there it was! A green and black lady bug eating the flesh of my best pumpkin. You see up until now I have been cruising along just watching the pumpkins grow, enjoying the fact that I did learn from my mistakes last year. And now this, I have a regular spray schedule and all has been good. I had some sun burn and a little wind damage in the beginning but no bugs. I have been using Malathion, every 7 to 10 days but tonight when I found the happy moocher, I bought Ortho Systemic Insect Killer I heard this works well. My question is can I spray the fruit itself and what has had the best success with cucumber beetles????? I cleaned off the spot were the bug had eaten and pasted it with captain 50W. Need help with this a.s.a.p.

 

 

Thanks Dennis

 

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