Planting pumpkins and gourds

grandpa Love · Jun 26, 2022

Blazing hot, hit 100 every day for about 2 weeks, but if you want October pumpkins you gotta plant now!

Garden was terrible dusty. Made hills, planted seeds and ran sprinkler for several hours.

Tgrasher · Jun 26, 2022

Do you ever have trouble with squash bugs? I battle every year with the devils, making me limit my vine plants to cucumbers and zucchini. There, I am able to to find them. I don't like using pesticides because it kills what pollinators I have. I've found that a dish soap water mix sprayed on them will cause tmem to suffocate, or at least slow them down to where I can catch and pull their heads off. I make sure there are no bugs at the end of the season but they come flying in as adults every year from somewhere.

grandpa Love · Jun 26, 2022

I mix cinnamon and diatomaceous earth together in a shaker, sprinkle it on.... Seems to keep them away. Not using pesticide is a fun challenge. Lol we haven't used any in our garden for years.

old · Jun 26, 2022

I plant a lot of herbs in my garden which seems to help with the bug problems

old · Jun 26, 2022

Try planting things like Basil and other such herbs close to your plants it seem to help in my garden

Planting pumpkins and gourds

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