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Squash production off
Posted on 7/8/25 at 8:34 am
Posted on 7/8/25 at 8:34 am
Yellow squash, zucchini, patty pan have all produced very poorly so far despite always doing good in prior years. Lafayette area. Others are saying the same thing but have no reasons. Anyone else experiencing this and know why!
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Posted on 7/8/25 at 9:49 am to Royalfishing
Dont ask me about freaking squash, About my favorite summer vegetable and I get a few to start the year, just enough to get excited, then kaput.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 9:50 am to Royalfishing
Too much rain
Posted on 7/8/25 at 11:15 am to Royalfishing
Have you checked for the dreaded Squash Vine Borers that will destroy squash plants in quick time.
I get them every year no matter what I do to try to prevent them and I usually only get a few squash per plant before they are done.
Look at the stems along the ground and look for "fras" which is brownish deposits on the stems that look like a fungus. If you find that, then cut into some of the stems and you will likely find a large white maggot looking critter chomping away on the inside of the vines, and that is your borer.
I get them every year no matter what I do to try to prevent them and I usually only get a few squash per plant before they are done.
Look at the stems along the ground and look for "fras" which is brownish deposits on the stems that look like a fungus. If you find that, then cut into some of the stems and you will likely find a large white maggot looking critter chomping away on the inside of the vines, and that is your borer.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 12:43 pm to Royalfishing
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Squash production off
Man, this is a damn sore subject with me. I typically get one or two individual squash every year, before the borers get mine. Beautiful, producing plants go from healthy to dead in a matter of a few days.
I don’t know why I continue to torture myself with squash plants!
Posted on 7/8/25 at 1:39 pm to gumbo2176
The #1 sign of squash borers is if they get watered really well, perk up, but within hours get droopy again. That's when I check the stem. And it's always a borer. I don't even try anymore.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 1:51 pm to gumbo2176
I now check the stalks twice a day. I am on a mission.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 2:52 pm to AlxTgr
I planted some pumpkin seeds a couple of weeks ago. I have seedlings just starting to make true leaves. Already finding vine borer eggs on them.
It's truly amazing how relentless these damn things are.
It's truly amazing how relentless these damn things are.
Posted on 7/9/25 at 9:11 am to tigerfoot
This is first year this happened. I usually get tons of yellow squash. It’s like things bloomed but didn’t really fruit. Then stalks near ground looked chewed up. And I always use Snail and Slug Bait.
Posted on 7/9/25 at 12:00 pm to Royalfishing
Maybe I’m just lucky but I have bumper crops of squash in south MS - I plant black beauty zucchini and early prolific straight neck as they’ve always done well. I do three things religiously, fertilize the everliving shite out of them with balanced fertilizer, run drip irrigation on an timer, and keep diatomaceous earth piled around the base of the stem to at least frustrate the borers. I’m not opposed to herbicide but the diatomaceous earth seems to keep them at bay.
Posted on 7/9/25 at 1:47 pm to TheDrunkenTigah
quote:I need to get some of that.
and keep diatomaceous earth piled around the base of the stem to at least frustrate the borers. I’m not opposed to herbicide but the diatomaceous earth seems to keep them at bay.
Posted on 7/9/25 at 4:21 pm to Royalfishing
Tell us your secret! I have to lock my car door at church to keep people from putting bags of squash in there. I think they will find some on Mars.
Posted on 7/10/25 at 8:40 am to Bamafig
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Tell us your secret! I have to lock my car door at church to keep people from putting bags of squash in there. I think they will find some on Mars.
Sounds like what happened to me when I lived in the Lower 9th Ward many years ago and planted mirlitons along a 50 ft. long chain link fence.
When fall came around that year I had so many mirliton I had trouble giving them away after my neighbors and friends said "NO MORE". I was picking shopping bags full every couple days.
Ever since then, I've not planted mirliton in my garden. Besides being space eaters, they produce way more than anyone needs or wants.
Posted on 7/10/25 at 8:45 am to Royalfishing
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It’s like things bloomed but didn’t really fruit
This is my problem this year. Healthy looking plants but blooms not sticking
This post was edited on 7/10/25 at 8:46 am
Posted on 7/10/25 at 11:10 am to Royalfishing
This is the second year in a row that my garden has done poorly. I'm ripping out the last of my raised beds this weekend. Tired of wasting time and money to get 1 tomato and 3 scallop squash
Posted on 7/10/25 at 11:20 am to Bamafig
quote:This is what I thought would happen when I began planting squash. Instead, it is a terribly frustrating plant IMO. Nice surprise for me is I threw some okra seeds in amongst the cucumbers, they have come on like gangbusters since cucs faded. Only about 10 stalks, but am getting 8-12 okra every few days and they seem to be accelerating.
I have to lock my car door at church to keep people from putting bags of squash in there.
On that note, I found an okra bloom setting that was absolutely covered in ants. I put a little seven out and they are gone, but is this normal?
Posted on 7/10/25 at 11:21 am to deeprig9
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squash borers
I plant squash and brussel sprouts to give them bugs something to stay occupied with. They eat those and leave everything else alone
Posted on 7/10/25 at 1:47 pm to tigerfoot
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On that note, I found an okra bloom setting that was absolutely covered in ants. I put a little seven out and they are gone, but is this normal?
I always get ants on the okra but they do no harm and I don't spray or dust the plants because of them.
I've got 50 okra plants and this morning I picked 105 pods. My plants are pushing 6 ft. tall right now.
Posted on 7/10/25 at 3:01 pm to gumbo2176
Repressive heat, ants and socks on my arms. Okra season was a child’s nightmare. Substitute mosquitoes and stickers and it was blackberry time.
Posted on 7/10/25 at 5:01 pm to Bamafig
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Repressive heat, ants and socks on my arms. Okra season was a child’s nightmare. Substitute mosquitoes and stickers and it was blackberry time.
I've been having okra in my garden in fairly large quantities for a few decades now and usually have no fewer than 50 and up to 75 plants each summer.
I no longer get that itch from picking it and go between my rows in cargo shorts and a t-shirt and snap off the pods. I can pick the 50 plants I have now in no more than 10 minutes time.
It takes me a lot longer to cut up a weeks worth to put in vacuum seal bags for the freezer if I don't do a few days at a time to smother it down and put in Zip-Lock quart bags.
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