by "Katey Didd" <spamless@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
May 12, 2008 at 11:12 PM
"zxcvbob" <zxcvbob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Katey Didd wrote:
>> Thanks. I have one of those huge needles. Like I said. I'll try the
>> suggestion of a tinfoil collar, egg hunting, Sevin dust etc on the
>> stem. If the problem still occurs I'll give up on squash. I hunt
>> the seed racks here and they just have the common varieties. We spend
>> so much money on the gardens already I fear my husband will object to
>> buying seeds from catalogs or online. The prices are always so much
>> higher. Retired, we're on a limited income now.
>>
>
>
> You might try Spaghetti Squash then. They run like pumpkins, so they
> should send down roots at each node (if they do get a borer, they still
> have enough roots that it doesn't matter)
We grew them one year and no one liked them. No one ate them.
>
> Bob
