RE: What did you grow that was new this year?

Ruth wanted to know why her pumpkins and melons would grow to full size
and then rot on the ground. Ruth, the same thing happened to me and I
think I had something called bacterial wilt that infected my vines. This
disease is spread by these tiny yellow and black striped beetles and the
shield backed squash bugs, and the only way to really combat them is to
spray Sevin and some other nasty chemical, benomyl, I think. This fall
perform a good clean up, do not compost your old vines, throw them out
and rototill deeply. Next spring, rototill again and don't plant your
vines in the same place as last year.

The veggie I grew that was new to me was Beauregard sweet potatoes, a
sweet potato supposedly good for Northern climes. I asked how to grow
them a few months ago on this list, but got little in the way of a
response, so I just plopped the plants in next to my asparagus and let
them grow. Living in a zone 5 area to the east of Rochester, New York,
we've already had two light frosts. So last week, I dug them up. Wow!
>From four plants I got a good yield of sweet potatoes, many were quite
small, but just told my husband that they were gourmet baby vegetables
;-)

Here's to a good veggie garden next year!

Stacey
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