my squash plants are turning yellow. i water them everyday, someone told me to water log them 2 or 3 times a week so that the roots will sink, i will try that. but has anyone heard of a natural fungle remover, i think it is a baking soda soda mixture. and what do ya'al use in substitute for the garden cloth? have you ever heard of newspaper being layed down?
I would probably lay off watering for a few days...sounds like you may actually be having a fungil problem from too much watering....also alot of people don't know this but if you bury the stem of the squash plant as it grows it will send out more roots at the leaf nodes. I have a volunteer patty pan squash plant out in the middle of my yard, the seed probably pooped out by a bird...I have never watered it and it is the most healthy looking thing...full of flowers and little baby squashes now...its growing next to an old stump. Check them also for squash beetles and their eggs...under the leaves, they lay eggs in clusters. Also look along the stems...if you see what looks like bits of sawdust...there is a squash vine borer around...look along the stem till you see a split or hole..with a knife make a slit and find that little booger in there and get him....then cover the place you split open with a good big handful of soil and pack it down gently...it may be ok and go on to live. I can't say enough for mulch....I posted about it in another thread here...yes you can use newspaper.They use soy based inks..only use the black and white pages..no color ads or anything slick.Water well before you put it down, lay it down 3-4 pages thick then water it then lay whatever you can on top to hold it down. I use alot of saw dust as they are always running saw mills around here and we get truckloads for free...but as it breaks down it depletes the nitrogen supply in the soil (its heavy carbon and it takes extra nitrogen to break it down)...so I add alot of manure in the fall and as I pull up plants that are finished producing I fill the hole up with compost. Water in the mornings and water on the soil not on the leaves...this will help keep down the fungus...water deep but not every day the roots have to breath. Never water at night if you can help it. Hope something here helps, teepi
AHHHHHHH . . . .thank you so much tepi. i love your posts. your place looks almost just like mine when i was living in the emerald triangle . . .humbolt. oh sometimes i miss the woods so bad. always actually thank you
Thanks sweetie, that green sign next to the greenhouse door says"CANADA NEXT RIGHT" Larry got it when he moved out of Vermont..... We lived right on the Canadian border up there in Norton Vt. the last left before Canada.... He had a little garden up there but when I lived with him I only ate out of it...lol Now here we are 32 years later...living in the woods together again,we love the woods, hope you can find your way back to them. teepi
i use to stay up in jay, vt . . . where my heart is i will find anouther place somewhere we have a dream of a real treehouse . . .i bet we can do it
Larry and I drove up to North Troy 3 years ago,did go over to Jays Peak...ALMOST moved back up there but the good old vibe was gone. Plus I have a bit of arthritis now and the cold is hard enough on me here.
