How to Manage Pests & Diseases on Squash & Zucchini Plants: Vine Borers, Hydrogen Peroxide, Mildew
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- I show you how to stop vine borers, bury stems, use dusts and address other squash and zucchini pests. I also show you how I use Hydrogen Peroxide to stop powdery mildew. Mid season is a great time for a water soluble feeding and a top dressing and I cover how to identify male and female zucchini flowers.
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I am a chemist. The peroxide will release the oxygen atom which will attack the mold& destroy it. It is an aggressive atom & does a good job. It does not turn into water. Your explaination is on target. Good job; I learned a lot.
Thanks for the info.
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I'm curious what does it turn into if the oxygen atom leaves if not water?
Gary, a friend showed me that putting the dust inside a nylon stocking really helps in controlling where the dust goes. Works well for me.
Stephanie Binder ... my grandma use to use a cloth flour sack. Can’t get those in my area anymore. I bet the nylon works great!
Great tip! Thanks!
I use one of those Hand Bellow Powder Dusters, that works great especially for getting under things
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Gary, you are always my "go to" guy. You have the best advice, no matter the garden topic.
I live in hot Arizona. This is my first attempt at growing a patio garden and it evolves as I go.
I'm allowing this 1st year to be filled with trial & error so my following years will be successful.
I'm actually surprising myself at how much I've learned and I'm starting to get a little harvest.
I feel like a proud parent watching my little ones grow up.
This might sound a little crazy but one thing I did to stop ants from climbing up my squash plants was to rub Vicks Vapo Rub on the stem.
I wasn't sure what the outcome would be but since it was my first year experimenting, I figured why not.
It has been a good 5+ weeks since I lubed my plants and it has worked like a charm! Peppers and all!
Zero stem damage....it's water resistant and the first and only application is still there...and not a single ant in sight. I'm curious if it will keep vine bores at bay as well. I don't have the gardening experience to know anything about them yet or about squash beetles.
I tried it on one plant first and was so happy with the results, I put the Vicks on the stems of my other squash, cukes and pepper plants.
They are all doing great!
So interesting! Squash vine borers took my only 2 zucchini plants last year. I’m gonna try using the Vick’s vapo rub on the stems this year. Thanks 👍🏼 Hope it works!
Hydrogen peroxide is degraded by light so if you do not use what you have mixed up, you need to store it in dark environment. That is why the bottle you buy is dark. Great tips Gary. Cheers from Canada.
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Gary I think you're explaining the hydrogen peroxide process well for the layperson. It is my understanding that H2O2 causes damage by oxidizing -- stealing electrons, which damages the molecular structures of cell membranes and biological compounds in general. Plants are probably more equipped to deal with this because they get pummeled with UV all day. They may also have catalase too which is an enzyme that decomposes hydrogen peroxide before it can cause them damage. Thanks for doing the work on the actual dosage & practical application! I have learned so much useful info from your channel.
Apparently plants use reactive oxygen species themselves as part of their immune response too, so in addition to harming the fungus you may actually be improving the plant's own immune response by essentially mimicking its mayday signal and providing it a substrate to convert into hydroxyl radicals that are very good at killing. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1218243/pdf/9148737.pdf
Yes, that is what I read but they only stated oxidizing and not where the electrons come from. That makes sense. Thanks. This was really helpful. A fun fact is H202 natural forms in the atmosphere. I bet plants adjusted too it. Rains use to have more and I but it helped with these problems. Now a days, the H202 reacts with all the pollution in the atmosphere and a lot less hits the plants.
That is a great article. If you have more I would love to read them. It really makes sense.
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This year I covered almost all my squash and zucchini plants with tulle to prevent the SVB moth from laying eggs on the plants, which for the most part has seemed to work, but does restrict the area the plants have to grow in. I almost removed the covers a couple of weeks ago thinking the SVB was done for the season. So glad I did not - in the last week I have found TONS (I counted at least 35 on the cover of one bed!) of eggs attached to the netting which I have had to pick off with duct tape to prevent them from falling into the protected area. The moths seem to have had a second generation this year because recently there are LOTS of eggs and I've seen several moths. I also found some damage on a protected plant so an egg must have gotten thru the tulle! These moths are relentless! When the plants were not covered the eggs were found on leaves, stems, flowers, and fruit - dust was of little to no help!
I might try Tulle next year as prime prevention, just to change it up. The SVB can be relentless.
What about pollination with them covered? Do you still get a good harvest?
@@panterita1177 Unfortunately you have to hand pollinate the plants under the netting but it beats losing the entire plant to SVB! I bought plastic netting (similar to deer netting) with 1/6" holes to keep out the SVB moth last year and it definitely kept the moths out. Smaller moths can get in though so don't plant kale in the same beds :-(. I wish I had bought the smaller hole netting to keep everything out - but it was much more expensive.
Thank You, I will have to try that next season. I think I am losing the battle this year 😔
Vine borers got all my zucchini and squash plants this year and I had to replant. Great video and info. Thanks for sharing.
Glad to help. Get them next year!
Another great video! I saw your previous video on spraying tomatoes 🍅 with hydrogen peroxide! I had the same leaf spot issue as you. I was very pleased with how the disease was knocked back when I sprayed with peroxide. When I had the first picking of my Bush Blue Lake beans I saw the plants and a lot of the beans were affected with grey rot (I always get it). I sprayed three times in six day (sorry I went strait to your max dose😇) and when I went to do my second pick the results were fantastic! There was hardly any rot at all!
I was a big fan of Sevin but our provincial government took it off the shelf a few years ago. I thought I would really miss the stuff but I don't. The only insecticide I spray now is BT to control caterpillars 🐛 in a natural way, I feel better eating the food I grow now. I still use insoluble fertilizer though in conjunction with my compost.
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So good to hear the peroxide worked. It is really impressive as long as you keep the dose mix low. Good to know for beans. I have tested 12 tabs on beans, cukes, zukes and tomatoes. I found it damages basil, chard and some grape leaves. Just curious why they took it. Ive been duped by products before. Captain Jacks is good dust too.
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Thank you Gary for your channel and all your subscriber's. So far i have enjoyed two squash from my garden and sweet peas starting to come in. I would have given up this season if it had not been for you and your subscribers advice. Thank you all.
So glad you stuck with it!
I will tell you all this. Gary is on to it with this Hydrogen Peroxide spray. I had blight showing up on one variety of my tomatoes. The variety effected by blight showed up about a week back on my Patio tomato variety. Gary had already did a video on his experiments with this on tomatoes. So I mixed 12 TBS per gallon and sprayed the Patio tomatoes. It killed the blight and where the black to brown spots had been, now there were small holes in the leaves, but all areas of the leaves that had been green looked just fine. The areas of the leaves that had progressed due to the blight and had yellowed, turned brown. Again the remaining green areas of the leaves looked fine. I did this on Thursday August 9th. In checking these plants today August the 12, they have new vibrant green growth and the leaves that had the blight are a dark green with the exception of where the spots and yellowing were from the blight. So now I know it works and I will be using this as my go to blight and fungus killer from now on. I live in the Deep South of Alabama, with extreme heat and humidity throughout the whole growing season, blight, fungus and mildew are a real problems here. Now I finally have a weapon that effectively takes care of this. SO try it as Gary says, do test sprays on a leaf or two and see for yourself.
Thanks Again Gary
Mr. Tom
Hi there Mr.Tom and Gary
Thanks for your interesting comments/reporting on your use of Hydrogen Peroxide spray.
Where did you plant them in ground or containers, do you think one is better then the other for production
Maureen
I had mine planted in a small raised bed along my driveway. Its about 12feet long, 16 inches wide, and 8 inches deep. So my thought with the Patio tomatoes was that this bed is real close to the dimensions of a container. Now understand, I have 2 Patio Tomatoes in it, taking up about 16 inches of bed length each. Then a Celebrity tomato taking up 24 inches of the bed. Next are my Burpee Burpless cucumbers taking up 36 inches of bed trained vertically. On each end taking up another 16 inches of bed length are Clemson Spineless okra and on the far end Green thumb okra. So based on bed dimensions and the space I allocated for the Patio tomatoes, is why I chose them for this bed. They have done really well here in the Deep South. I was really late planting this year and did not even get any of this in till after June the 1st. Both plants set fruit during July and into August and we have been in the 90's since the last week of May. I counted the tomatoes on them tonight,one has 15 and the other has 13 on it. Not to shabby for plants only 3 to 4 feet high. In fact two are turning red now and I will probably be picking them tomorrow evening. They are medium sized tomatoes, but they look really nice. So for me and this particular bed, they are working out great.
Hope this helped you.
Mr. Tom
I feel the same. A really useful tool.
Deep South Bama with Mr. Tom ... Hi! Hope you are safe. I’m in central Alabama, although I grew up in Lower SE Alabama. I’m going to try the hydrogen peroxide this year. Glad to know it worked for you!
Just executed last-minute zucchini rescue, Thanks dude! You have taught me to fish...
Nice. Good luck.
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I have a terrible time with the vine borer on my squash. They destroy them every year. Thanks for showing the organic dust I can use!
Dust is really the best.
thanks Gary I well try that In the future next season I well be more aware of vine bores I had a big problem this year with them I think they really Caught me off guard that was the first time I had ever experienced something like that right now I am having problems with squash bugs on my squash and tomato plants
Squash bugs are tough.
Thank you so much for these videos! My squash and garden overall are doing really well in north central Texas with so much rain and getting lots of zucchini, yellow squash and patty pans. My tomatoes are doing fabulous with no signs of any damage at all with tons of fruit on the vines, but I am using your hydrogen peroxide suggestion to keep them healthy and hopefully fend off any disease. Thanks again!!
Test spray first as it is good practice. I hope things continue to go well.
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Thank you so much Gary. I. Just planted my 2nd lot of Zuchini , cucumber and winter squash. Can I start treating these plants at this early stage. They are not flowering yet.
Thank you for the awesome knowledge.
I am a wounded farmer right now just had a hip replacement and I have all the time to learn all these detailed nourishing treatments for my plants. I let my kids watch then send them to go take care of my plants.
You can start early but I usually recommend trying to start about 2 weeks before disease arrives in your garden. You can only figure that out by writing dates down. You can start as early as you want but please test spray your mixes on several leaves and wait 48 hours for damage before spraying all the leaves.
Adding dirt on a pumpkin vine worked one year when one took off into the lawn. Thanks Gary once again I like that you occasionally offer nonorganic solutions, as we do when things get crazy. We do remove any flowers near the areas to keep the bees away from harm.
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I'm in zone 8b on the gulf coast USA. i usually cage my squash plants but now I'm realizing that may be making it easy for svb's. I'll try letting the plants trail on the ground this time and mounding soil around the main stem. Thanks.
It is really effective have several root areas established.
i have had much better production with ground grown vs trelised speg squash, dust is not really helping the squash plants but are helping the cucumbers, though i suspect that the moths are focused on the huge squash vine ignoring my cucs, luckily i harvested 4 large speg squashes so far but not any more since the borer has set in....gonna keep dusting and try some neem oil
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Great video! During the last two seasons, I'v had great success against vine-borers by injecting zucchini w/ a Bt solution. Monterey brand is good. The Bonide Thuricide isn't good, because the leaves which were injected turned yellow. That's not surprising, because, Bonide has a green dye and smell like paint thinner. Anyway, I know that injections of a quality Bt solution is very effective against vine-borers. Happy gardening!
Great idea and thanks for the Monterey option.
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Timing is perfect. Just discovered this in my squash plant. Armed and ready now 😁.
Good luck
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Nice video Gary. Thank you very much. I just got my first zucchini fruit. I grow them in containers, Its getting very hot here in South Florida. I am thinking about watering them twice a day, but I am worry with the diseases. I am going to test some plants with the twice a day water irrigation.Thanks!!!
Thanks alot. I have the white leaves and the brown tip and rotted zucchini plus wilting leaves. Got one zucchini so far after spraying black soap into the flowers as there are ants that are eating all the pollen in the male and female flowers. Going to do everything you just told me because in the stores they are clueless. Thanks so Much!!
Flairelle i struggled with the same thing! I gave up and pulled the plants out and started new seeds 😞
Oh my! My experience with the little ants is they actually aide in pollination when bees are not around.
Good luck! The ants probably move it around before they eat it so, It might be helping with pollination.
The ants also attack the pollinators. I've put out traps after having to toss out my zucchini. I tend to have an ant problem every year but I hope with these traps we've made that we will be able to stop them.
That was a very good and informational video. You are Da Man! Thanks so much 👍👍
In mid missouri had to restart new zuck and I will follow your directions for the second try...ty
The 2nd round is sometimes better and you might have time for another round.
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I use a bottle with a pointed outlet to put down dust. A hair dye applicator works well or one of those condiment bottles they make for barbecue set ups. I always use the extra dirt trick it does help. I haven't tried the hydrogen peroxide technique I will note that and use it. Thanks for the info. My garden is crazy this year due to twice the rain.
Good tip and the rains always bring big growth for sure
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Great tips, thanks for sharing
Glad to share
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You are a very good teacher. Thank you!
Very appreciated. I enjoy it.
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I use worm castings and soil from last year. They germinate okay. I make sure i don't over water just keep the soil moist. As I am using last years soil I always put it in the microwave.
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For how long? And wow how big is your microwave 😂
Hi Gary! I love all your informative videos. I’m new to gardening so I’m learning so much. Two questions... 1. Do you have a separate sprayer for each concoction (1 for neem, 1 for peroxide) 2. Where did you get your blue 2gallon watering can?
I do actually. I am keeping the peroxide to its own. Neem and soaps and oils, I use a single sprayer. That's two. If I use other antifungals I might use a third. Most likely baking soda, sulfur spray and Hydrogen peroxide will share. I'm just testing H202 100% now and not use other antifungals.
I have only gotten milky spore twice - this year early! So frustrated. Tried milk and water before and that did nothing. The plants were doing fine a few days ago and we’ve had little rain of late so go figure. Have a ton of bees at my garden so can’t use anything that would harm them. Will let you know how this works.
How are you digging through these?? Mine have sharp needles all over them!! Feel like a cactus!!!!
Thanks Gary for the information really wanted something to help my ziccuni plants will try
Good luck.
Wow what a simple way. Corn meal is my steppe food in my country so I will keep a bag in the garden for the ants.
That works!
Love your videos! This one came in very handy. Just today I had to pull up all of squash, cucumber and zucchini plants. Not sure what the problem was, possibly the vine boarer. Going to start a new batch with the seeds I got from you!
Thanks for the order. And keep some dust on the stems. It really helps.
How often do you use the fish emulsion?
Another great video Gary. I need to check your page for eggplant issues. All of a sudden my best looking eggplant just started to wilt during the day and sort of bounces back at night. No other signs of stress/damage. Great color, had 3 eggplants which either I picked to prevent them from going bad and one that fell off. Either way need to go check your vids for eggplants. Thanks.
LeonitasMaximus that just happens when it’s really hot. I live in Phoenix and no matter how much I water, most everything wilts from 3 pm to the night. Bounces back again. Not really an issue I wouldn’t worry 😊👍🏽
Hmmm. I haven't seen that issue. Hopefully it is just intense heat. Let me know if you find the reason.
gonna try this with the peroxide. have lost plants all summer from the vine borers.
Experiment now and be ready for next year.
That was a very good and informative video, thanks so much.
Peroxide might work great, and I'm sure it does; but, it's not the food grade kind. You are using non-food grade peroxide, which means that there is lead and aluminum in it. Your fruits will absorb these heavy metals into them. You will be loading yourself up on heavy metals from consuming these foods. Might want to use food grade peroxide. It could be a little bit more expensive to use food grade peroxide, but the food grade peroxide is free from loose heavy metals. This is why regular over the counter peroxide is so cheap, because it is full of metals. I see you care about yourself and you do so wonderfully with growing your own foods and you care very much for your garden. So, I just thought you might wanna know about this silent issue.
I can't find a reference for that.
hi, those zuchini are beauties! can i grow them in a 5 gal container? thanks for passing on all your knowledge.
donnamaria1025 sure you can! Cheers
Yes! You can. I currently have two in 5 gallon buckets.
This plant is a tough one for 5 gallons as it gets huge. But smaller or bush varieties for sure. If you try the Dark Green, you just have to water daily eventually when large, sometimes 2x's.
In the past couple weeks I have had the vine borer on my zucchini, so this was very helpful!! I had another quick question. I noticed the little yellow type spots on your cucumber plant next to the zucchini plant. I am getting those yellow spots on my cucumbers as well, and was wondering if or what I should do to stop them? The leaves towards the base of my cucumber plant and up inside are recently all browning up and dying as well..? Thank you again, I just love your videos!
So I am actually treating that with hydrogen peroxide too. I started when those spots showed up 5 days ago. What you see left, is the dead spots. The HP worked, no progression but I am still testing it out. Base die off is normal but often it is sucking insects on the undersides of leaves.
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Great tips on zucchini care.
Thanks!
Those are some good looking leaves buddy
They did well that year.
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I'm jealous of how gorgeous and healthy your plant is. Lol, I have a giant squash plant and right when it started get tiny inch long yellow squashes on it, it got covered in mold! It keeps trying to make new baby squashes, but once they're about an inch long they shrivel up and die. Is it from the mold? I just found out what that was yesterday so now I'm going to try to treat it. Lol hopefully it works! 😆
Mold could be doing it but usually due to the little squash not getting pollinated and the normally die off.
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Hi Gary, thank you for the information. I'm new to gardening and your videos are so helpful for me. I have a problem with my soil. there are springtails in my seedlings soil. are they harmful?
I dont thing they are harmful. My understanding is they eat decaying organic matter but I havent experienced them.
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Thanks Gary. Great Information.
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Super helpful, thank you so much!
Yep
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So Gary.. because Hydrogen Peroxide breaks down pretty quickly.. the H20..in your spray container.. your mixing it fresh each time you need to spray right?
Yes. Sunlight breaks it down. So you in theory could keep it in a spray bottle that doesn't let light in. As peroxide bottle are usually brown.
That was very helpful! Thank you!
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are pickleworms a problem up where you are. here in north georgia i lost all my meolns and most cucumbers and squash to them. will they overwinter? is it safe to use the hstraw bale i had melons growing in?
Do I need to wrap it or can I just cover it up with a lot of soil?
Is itsafe for human consumption after spraying all those chemicals?
Everything on the plant is a chemical. So I recommend researching each one so you understand it. I use what I feel is safe in a practical way.
you are great
I tried wrapping the base of the stems with aluminum foil, which I'd read acted as a barrier to the vine borer moth. I must not have done it correctly because they destroyed my plant before I got a single harvest from it.
Ive tried that. What I think is they bore in around and under it and just grow in the stem.
I have vine borers. Just to clarify, I don't need to put dust on the actual branches? Just on the main stem?
Thank you!
Hi! Thank you for sharing all this info. Your garden looks beautiful!
I have a question. I am in PA, not too far from NJ so you might have the answer. We are now mid May. Am I too late to start growing from seeds? Thank you!
Next Level Gardening has a few videos on summer seeding. In a week or so, I'll be planting from seed, kales and other greens for a fall crop. Here in Iowa, frost can come as early as September, so planting for fall makes sense if I can keep the plants in partial shade during the dog days...
Showed this video to my wife she said Sevendust should pop in the video singing lol
True. LOL.
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Nothings working for leaf miners 😫 Will this work?
They are tough. I would try dust.
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Hi Gary, I really enjoy your videos. I have a problem with my tomatoes turning yellow (leaves) and wilting overnight. Was wondering if it's something that would be helped with hydrogen peroxide? Any help would be appreciated.
You probably have what's called early blight.
Thanks again Gary!!
Yep.
My zucchini stopped producing about 6 weeks ago and continued to grow leaves but no more zucchini. Are they determinate? I grew black beauty and dark green. I wish I knew why they stopped, I love zucchini and it’s so disappointing
They shouldn't be. Sometimes Nature stops them but that is a long time. When weather changes they correct. If you have 75 days, drop some more seeds.
Thank you so much Gary. I appreciate it.
Very glad to help.
Have you found the dust to eliminate squash bugs? They tend to hang out under the leaves.
No they are tuff. But the H202 spray should damage their eggs and it annoys them. I see them move and squash them.
I've been watching your videos, they are very educational. I'm about to start spraying my tomatoes and squash here in MD. Hydrogen peroxide does that affect Box Turtles in any of your experience. I have a great dea of box turtles on my property. I watch them lay eggs yesterday evening and last night I have photos. My mother used to make squash pie which is awesome just like a pumpkin pie but better in my opinion and fried squash; unreal good stuff. Thank u
I would say no. Test spray plants too and wait 48 hours. Its good practice. Good luck.
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@@THERUSTEDGARDEN Thank u Sir. In your opinion how long should I wait to spray the baking soda after a rain. I sprayed the hydrogen peroxide I started out with 8 tablespoons. This is the between day. But it's supposed to rain later today and later in the day tomorrow. Should I start the whole process over after it rains. I know you need 24 hours drying time after you spray the hydrogen peroxide. Then it's gone. I test sprayed but the ones I didn't do look like they could use some hydrogen peroxide. Most of them need a boost of baking soda. But the rain has kind of messed my process up!
Hello Gary , thank you for the informative video. The bugs , disease and the friggin deer seem to very bad in all regards this season and at times I wonder if its worth it anymore to continue to garden. I have an off topic question in regards to tomatoes , specifically the heirloom variety know as Black Krim which I have of several of these plants growing . Well on the one plant the tomatoes start to ripen then they turn to mush. Being the multi color of the Black Krims its hard to tell if this is blossom end rot or a root issue. Some of the leaves on the plant have a rather wilted appearance but not all. The other Black Krim plants are doing fine. I would so appreciate your input :)))
Hmmm. That's new too me. They aren't over ripe I assume. Any other blemishes or issues on them?
great as usual
Appreciated.
Hi Gary, this week I lost 5 squash plants and 2 melon plants. They are planted near eachother.. Plants were established with many winter squash, sugar baby watermelon and golden Jenny melons.. full and beautiful large leaves, lots of flowers etc.. go to bed all is well. Wake up and come out the morning and they are all wilted BADLY and just done. No sign of disease on leaves other than eggs on leaves of squash that I pulled off daily.. my 50+ Cucumber plants nearby are fine, cucamelons, tomatoes and more all completely fine. How do I know if it's borers or something else? The only thing I did was two weeks ago I added some granular fertilizer around plants that was all under 5 in strength and added a little more bone meal.. It didn't burn them, no leaves yellowed and did this to all of them after finding BER on zucchini and tomatoes. Any advice would be great.. I replaced everything that I pulled out with cucumber and magnolia peas for fall just so I have something in that space since it's too late to plant more winter squash in Ontario zone 6b..
Dig in the stems. Vine borers got to them. And start some new zukes and squash now. You have time.
@@THERUSTEDGARDEN To prevent it from happening again on the new stuff I grow, once it has its true leaves should I cover the stems with tin foil til frost when I take the garden out? I tried the link for the captain Jack's dust on Amazon and it didn't take me to it. It showed "no results".
And thanks so much for responding.. I am supposed to be selling this year and this loss has really hurt..
Hi Gary. I'm having an ant problem crawling all my new veggie plants. I was hoping your Neem oil/soap spray would help with that but it does not remove the scent trail and the ants return the next morning. What is your recommendation for a safe organic (if possible) spray to keep ants away? Is there also something safe I can spray on kitchen countertops when they invade the kitchen and sink? Thanks. Marisa
Cinnamon definitely!
Hello
Is that dark squash vine healthy at that color? My vine is that color and a few webs. I don't see anything when I check for bugs.
Gary, here's what's happening...the leaves on my string beans are turning yellow and have brown spots...I am about to give up, my mustard and curly kale are also yellowing and my collards have some type stunted growth syndrome. I watch videos and research, there is just too much content to absorb and do what's best for my little raised bed!!!! So frustrated, help😢😢😢
We keep finding them boring into the fruit, not so much the stems, and not just the fruit near the ground. How do we prevent them from boring straight for the squash and cucumbers?!
Its hard. You can only reduce. Check and remove and use insect dust like spinosad helps.
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So fish emulsion every 10-14 days but on the bottle, it says every 3 months...so how does this work? Can you explain? How much are you mixing? less than what it says on the bottle but feed more often?
Can you eat the small squash/zucchini that doesn’t get pollinated?? I’ve got a variety of massive squash that’s growing fast and getting big with flowers on the tips. Doesn’t look like male/female flowers opened up at the same time, but they’re still getting bigger. Any chance they’re edible before they start to rot off?
Do I do this only on a mature plant or do you start early as possible slowly with the HP?
You can start early. Always test spray.
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I just found a worm boring into my zucchini. Three plants in the bed looked similar so I ripped them out and threw them away. Does this mean the rest of the bed will have the worm? My plants in containers are getting fruit but nothing in the bed is. I don’t have many pollinators so have to be careful what I use. I will try the dust.
It is possible but you can try and remove the worm and bury the stem base with soil. They often root around the damage.
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Will this help manage the fungus Choanephora rot? Thank you!
That I dont know
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GREAT VID THANKS
Glad to share
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Hi, Ive been enjoying your videos. This is the first year Im having luck with zucchini, bc Ive ALWAYS lost the battle to squashbugs n borers. (I literally gave up for several yrs, and Im back at it). I remember literally dumping 7dust directly on several squash bugs and they kept crawling, it was totally ineffective. A few days ago i sprayed a cpl of the brown marmorated stink bugs with liquid 7 and it didnt kill them either. *What exactly was the other dust u used? Im sure it works on those pesky borers, but then again, and I suppose applying it to a couple outer leaves may kill the moth if it lands on it. 🤷🏻♀️
My tomato plants have a purple hugh on the stems, do u know what/how to rectify that? Thank you. 🙂
I noticed the bumble bees are all over my hydrangeas but they dont seem to visit my veg garden. Perhaps nxt yr i should bring a couple potted hydrangeas that I am currently propagating nxt to the squash. Seems several types of wasps are the only visitors I get, and Japanese beetles. 😑
Thanks again.
A deagreasing dish soap w/water works great!
Do you know if the organic dust& other is safe around pets? I have cats and dog. Do you dust in am or evening. The peroxide shouldbe safe yes or no?
Peroxide is theory would be safer. I have dogs and never had issues with it but they dont really venture into the garden. I dust in the evening and rinse off most in the morning. For squash stems I do leave it on for days. I dont think Captain Jacks Dead Bug dust would effect pets. But I dont know for sure.
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What about squash bugs? That’s my biggest problem
This helps some. They are tough. I look for them and smash them.
@@THERUSTEDGARDEN Squash bugs aren't really deadly to plants though. Definitely not as much as the moth borer.
I’ve noticed there is no powdery stuff on my leaves but I’ve noticed there is this white stuff on my soil.... what is that? Should I scoop out?
My zucchini plants are dark green at the base. Do you know what that is?
Gary, Hi, Love your videos. Are you pruning your squash leaves so that the center where the blossoms bloom are more visible to pollinators? My squash blossoms are almost completely hidden. Thanks!
Great question! I’m wondering the same thing.
Not specifically but I prune out leaves for air flow and to let in good insects and so birds can get in to eat insects. Pollinators just need to see one and pretty much find the rest
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The only problems I have is slugs.They pretty much destroyed my garden last year.What do you recommend organically?
I use slug baits that have either iron phosphate or sulfur. They reduced my slug issues by 90%. They are not longer a concern
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What eats just the flowers or why are the flowers missing
Interesting and I don't know.
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How does hydrogen peroxide help with the zucchini?
It helps with any fungal issue on leaves. In short it cleans the leaves but always test spray first and look for damage with new sprays.
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I. Will like to know how often you water your zucchini and squash.thank you.
It varies to much to say but in high heat, 4x a week.
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African Sisters Produce Cornmeal. But you have to do it very often.
I use a borax mix. Search my video borax ants. But it is for sugar eating ants.
What kind of worm is getting into the flowers, Ive tried everything I can think of. BT, stockings, sevin and they still get every single cucumber, zucchini, yellow squash, watermelon I try to grow...for 5 years...
I don't know. I would have to see pictures
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Yeah the vine borer decimated my zucchini’s and now after having to pull them up, they’re after my butternut and spaghetti squash.
Stem burying can help and they restablish.
Would that work on fruit trees?
I am not sure. I dont have a lot of experience
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Ever seen the new leaves come out all weird? Like the shape and the texture of the leaves look nothing like the original leaves?
It happens sometimes. Not sure why. Sometimes it is insect damage and leaf budding.
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Wish I would have watched this video last week. Vine borers, squash bugs AND powdery mildew ravaged my zucchini. 👎🏻 It’s too late in the season to start again and there isn’t much left of my plant. It was doing great and two days later almost completely dead. I sprayed it with dead bug brew liquid, neem oil and soap, didn’t do anything.
They tend to come together. You need 60 days of no frost to get another round in. Vine borers have to be stopped by that stuff before the get into vine.
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I might have asked this question, I can’t remember though. If I spray peroxide and water, will it kill or degrade my Spinosad or BT? Spinosad can last up to 4 weeks and the instructions say don’t spray more than six times in a season. I don’t want to waste the spray but do want to be able to use the peroxide solution
Hmmm. I don't know.
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I thought you couldn’t burry the stem of a zucchini. Is that just when it’s young?!8 have a zucchini that’s laying over and I don’t know if I have a vine borer but I have some wilting leaves on one side. The stem has a verticals crack down it from falling over but the stem is nice and hard and doesn’t seem too effected. I also read you can wrap an ace bandage around the stem to protect it from the vine borer idk about that 😂 anywaus thank u so much for your videos they’ve been a life saver for my 200sqft of growing space I’ve got going on this year!
They will root out. May not work for every variety but it is worth a try.
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