In fact, I do, given that you are unwilling to “nuke” the bugs with insecticide.

I just read about squash bugs in Countryside Magazine, and looked up the squash vine borer online too and the advice I got is the same and indeed very easy:

Plant new squash now, as far away from the infected squash as possible.

The adult squash vine borers have laid their eggs by now, that is, by the end of July, so the new squash has a good chance of surviving at least long enough to bear a lot of fruit.

Generally speaking, the advice I got from Countryside Magazine was to plan on planting squash in succession in different parts of the yard, so that, when one patch succumbs to the squash vine borers or squash bugs, the next patch should be yielding its fruit until it succumbs too etc etc. This way you can eat squash all season long despite the bugs.

Just incidentally: Since praying mantises showed up in our garden, we stopped using even our nicotine-garlic-red pepper flake solution against flea beetles and decided to simply let nature sort things out.

Rose

Now, I don’t suppose you have any easy solutions for squash vine borers, do you?

We are still pruning away the occasional mildewy leaf and are still spraying about 2 times a week, but our zucchini are bearing a lot of fruit all the same, so for us, the baking soda /soap mix worked.

Thanks for commenting.

Rose