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Canton,Mass

I buried the vines on the plant,just like the book said.The squash borers were very happy about this,as they could go about thier dirty business without me detecting thier frass-holes.One lesson I learned this year was....If you bury the vines..DON'T bury them where the leaf comes out of the vine,bury them in between the leaf junctures.The borers had a field day with my vine and ruined my year.How the little bastards crawled all the way from Hell'I'll never know but I'm sure that's where they came from.o

8/23/2002 10:52:22 PM

Pumpkintown, SC

Did you open up any of the vines and actually see them?

8/23/2002 10:55:32 PM

Canton,Mass

Yes.Wherever I saw a leaf that was turning yellow,brown,or black I found the dirty maggot bastards up to no good,I've killed at least 50 this week alone.Because we had such a hot spell over the last 6 weeks,I've cut back on the applications of Sevin.One of the filthy, dirty, sleasy, scummy, rotten, no-good, S.O.B.'s has gone into the STEM of my biggest pumkin and he's gone into the underside of the stem.I blasted malathion up into the stem and I don't know if I got him or not,dirty stinker,but I can't physically get to him,the sneaky,ruthless whore-master.

8/23/2002 11:07:50 PM

Western Pa.

Whoa,

Watch that language! You have now arrived at the stage that you will refrain from using Sevin, and next year will start using a systemic insecticide such as Scimitar. If you don't, you will build up a nice sized "colony" of SVB's, and instead of 50, may have 5000! Life's too short, dude!(Been dere, done that!)

kilr

8/24/2002 2:08:39 AM

New Bremen, Ohio

LOL - That was great. I know every single word comes to my mind when I seen them little #$%^#, @#$%-&*$%^, %^&*$#%@,
$%^&*# SVB's. I thought SVB's were done this year and I seen one land on a leaf as I was spraying fungacide this week. I didn't even think right when I counted the black dots and blasted the little bastard with fungacide. The I had about 15 minutes trying to find him with no prevail. I felt your emotion and pain bobbybou.

8/24/2002 7:44:38 AM