2023 Gardening (outside)

[jjannie]

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.

our Armenian cukes in the GH are being slow to produce. The Mexican Sour Gherkins in the GH are producing like crazy they're so fun grow for snacking. I didn't get the green beans picked yet (life got in the way) so maybe when it's not raining today, I'll get them done. 

Having Radon mitigation install going on here today. Nice to get it taken care of as our testing levels were pretty high. It's just really noisy, but the guys are very polite, and very professional but it'll take about 8 hrs as we needed 2 systems installed. 

Pumpkins are doing well, we've planted them where they'll get a bit more sunshine on them. Stupid magpie birds had pulled out one of my seedlings, nasty birds that they are. 

Some of the early girl tomatoes are blushing but the big Parks Whopper tomatoes are still quite green still.