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Hows it go? All zucchini are squash but not all squash are zucchini...
Isn't it the same thing for pumpkins? All pumpkins are squash but not all squash are pumpkins. A friend of mine wont let me call winter squash a squash. She calls them all pumpkins, what ever color shape or form.
I had a similar problem a few weeks back. I hand picked all the little worms off (yuck) and then covered up with row covers and they seem to be all gone.
I think you can also use some sprays - BT I think is what was suggested to me. I'm sure someone more experienced on here can verify.
It's cabbage worms. They are little green caterpillars that are hard to see on the plant if you just glance over it. You'll find them if you look. BT is best to use for control when the caterpillars are young. Wasps are good natural predators and hand picking helps. Row covers or tulle works to keep the adults from laying eggs in the first place but they won't work if you already have them on your plants (unless you get rid of them first before covering).
Rodney
This post was edited by theforgottenone1013 on Mon, Jun 23, 14 at 16:44
It's too late for the onions in the six pack to bulb but they are usable at any time. Plant them and either snip off the greens for use like chives or let them grow and pull them as green onions.
A half inch seems deep (to me) for onion seeds but there are too many variables to know what caused them to not sprout. Try sprouting them in cell packs or flats for transplanting.
Rodney
I also use tulle, but I remove them when the female flowers come up.. I'll get plenty of squash before the SVBs get to the plants, since it probably takes around 3 weeks until you notice their attacks. (7days for eggs hatching, at least 2 weeks for grubs to grow big enough to cause any damage.)
A couple of issues I see:
- the plants under the covers alway seem more spindly and thinner stemmed. I wonder if the reduced light make them grow longer and thinner. The ones I remove the cover earlier seem to bulk up and grow more bush-like.
- Sometime aphids find their way in. Bad news. They are safe from predators in there and multiply quickly.
They look normal to me. All squash does that, the older leaves yellow and die as the plant continues to vine out to newer and greater things. It's the main/new growth to care about and yours look healthy and fine.
If you're referring to those small "dead spots" on the leaves, my cucumbers do that every year, and probably some of my zucchini too. I've never known what it was, but it's never harmed production and the overall plant thrives.
This post was edited by loribee2 on Fri, Jun 20, 14 at 21:25
I am by no means up on squash since I only grow zucchini.(Courgettes) However, the last two pictures you showed and identified as yellow straight neck squash look exactly like my yellow zucchini. Are you sure that's not what they are? I usually grow a variety called Jemmer. It does sometimes start to bulge in the middle if left a little too long but it is definitely a Zucchini. I always grow yellow so I can see them to pick and none get overlooked to grow into monsters.
Thai yellow is ripe when it turns a rich deep yellow, but there are other thai varieties that start yellow and turn white when they're ripe (sorry, can't remember name of that one).
Gardenerenthusiast, your eggplant looks great.
Ha! I eat the mushrooms form the garden) Not all of them, of cause, but few edible kinds. I specially prefer Black-staining Polypore - the spores got to my flower bed with city compost, and now every year it "blooms" there on the decomposing roots of old oak stump. If picked young, taste and texture is similar to beef steak when cooked! CAUTION! Do not eat mushrooms form the garden if you are not an expert in mushrooms)(I picking wild mushrooms from my childhood, but I will not try a mushroom I don't know, or the one i think, I know, but with poisonous look-a-likes existing. )
Haha that's cool! I've never seen a conjoined squash.
That's fairly common on my squash, especially late in the season. Yellow straightneck does seem to be especially prone, though, I had a lot of doubles last year, and only a couple on zucchini.
Sometimes there is even a leaf or stem running between the two. A few years back, I had a Tromboncino pair with a small vine running between them. I let that squash grow to full size, and picked it just before frost. Sitting on the dining room table, the attached vine bloomed for several weeks... watching it grow made the end of the growing season more bearable.