Re: Vine Bore
One organic method for dealing with the borers is to
go out in the evening with a flashlight and shine it
through the vine until you locate the nasty borer in
the vine and then impale it with a pin. To minimize
vine damage I usually leave the pin in the vine for a
few hours instead of moving the pin around. Once the
grub is in the vine it is difficult to kill with
chemicals since the vine itself is protecting the
borer. Goodluck!
Diane
--- Chriss <chriss@columbus.rr.com> wrote:
> Help! I have what I think to be vine bore, I didn't
> want to look to see the
> actual bug. I walked out to the patch today and saw
> that my spaghetti
> squash plant had been hit by moles and then upon
> closer inspection saw that
> the stems and leafs were mushy and wilting. Then I
> noticed it was on my
> giant. Some of the side vines and leafs on the
> giant were really bad. I
> culled what I could, but started to cry....I'm such
> a girl and love my
> pumpkin so much!! I don't want anything to happen
> to it. We sprayed sevin.
> But we have a lot of damage. The pumpkin is still
> growing. Did we do the
> right thing?
> ~Chriss
> Delaware, Ohio
>
>
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