2023 Gardening (outside)

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Once you load your sprayer 1 Tablespoon dish soap per gal of water, then you shake it to get it well foamed up, then you spray away. Squash bugs breath from their sides so once they get coated with the soap they suffocate typically within seconds, 30 at most. I spray the bugs when I see them but also coat the surface of the sole for any I didn't see. 

Spray in evenings when they are most likely to be out, they don't like the sunshine. Last night I only found 1 adult and NO new hatches. They'll lay eggs on underside side of the leaves in little rust-colored clusters, you can smash (kill) them by supporting the front side and using flat stick or wide depressor to minimize any more damage to the leaves and press. Hoping this evening to see new arrivals/hatchings.

What is, "the sole", you mentioned above? Will spraying the eggs kill them or is smashing them them only way to kill them?

  LOL - should be soil not sole!  Saw no more bugs tonight - not even new hatches. Smashing the eggs  is best not sure just spraying them penetrates the egg very well.  Picked some cherry tomatoes and some Mex Sour Gherkins from the GH. Tomorrow morning I'll be picking more green beans.

OK, that makes sense. I hope this cooler weather gets our GB's producing again, it has been  how few we have been getting. Not effecting our squash and cucumber production.