Tuesday, May 27, 2008

So, I'm told by my Chatham County friends that planting marigolds around tomatoes will keep pests away. I'm wondering if this is also true for squash, as it appears i may be at the beginning of an issue with squash borers. i sure dont want to lose all this nice squash! marigolds. tonite.
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3 comments:

Joseph H. Vilas said...

What are the problematic pests? The only ones I had problems with were hornworms and spider mites, which were both pretty easily dealt with.

6:35 PM
katuah said...

good question! wish i had an answer. seriously, i have no idea what either of those look like, and would not have even known what a "squash borer" was if it hadn't been pointed out to me. i have a LOT left to learn, obviously. i'm assuming a hornworm would look like, well, a worm? and that spider mites are very small?

12:01 AM
Joseph H. Vilas said...

I was speaking just w.r.t. the tomatoes, btw.

Tomato Hornworms are ugly MFs. Spider mites are more easily noticed by their webs, as they're really tiny. When I got them, i thought I had a fungal problem. BTW, they dislike water, so start overhead watering if you see them, even spraying the plants from underneath if you can.

5:19 PM

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