Re: pumpkins DIGEST V1 #59

On this day I have dusted my remaining eight vines with Sevin, sprayed them
well with malathion, and sprayed them with Triazicide.  Not to mention the
Imidacloprid.  Every bug for 20 miles is dead except for the squash bugs.  The
squash bugs are dancing, singing, rolling in the stuff.  They are having some
sort of orgy on my vines, chewing and doing other unmentionable things that
result in more eggs and more damn squash bugs.  Of the two new plants I set
out a couple of weeks ago, my husband cultivated one out, and this morning the
squash bugs had appeared and killed the other one.  Tonight I will put out
boards, then go to the garden in the morning with a bucket of soapy water to
try to drown some more of them that may collect under the boards.  I collected
about a cupful or more of bugs off one plant this morning.  I'm so
discouraged.  I don't even have one pumpkin growing yet.  The hailstorm three
weeks ago set everything back, all the
 female flowers that were starting then disappeared, and they're just starting
to appear again.  This just may not be the year that I set a Kansas record
after all.  If anyone can give me some advice on the eradication or at least
slow down of the squash bugs, I'd really appreciate it.  Thanks.

cheers,
duchess of gladstone

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