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I'm bugged

9 years ago

A few months ago I had to give up my garden because the squash beatles were devouring my zuccini vines. I tried everything that was suggested to me. Red pepper juice, soapy water, essential oils and real poison. Nothing worked. This time I replanted and kept a diligent watch on my healthy green vines, spraying every 3 days and removing each leaf that was infested as time moved on. I'm almost ready to pull it up again unless you guys know of something I haven't tried that will work.

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Fascist_Nation
9 years ago
Another tough pest to deal with.

Besides the link below Jayne Doyle drew this to the VPA site's attention that is well worth watching:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT5exU7yEtU

Here is a link that might be useful: killing squash bugs

This post was edited by Fascist_Nation on Thu, Oct 30, 14 at 13:23
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