I have to say I tried this method and wrapped to the base of each leaf (wrapped everyday) but this is the first year I did not lose any plants! I also checked everyday on the exposed leaves and only found 7 eggs on 6 plants. Got rid of them early before they hatched. Thank you OAG! I can grow squash again. 😀
@@OldAlabamaGardener how are you? Can you help me with fixing my acid reflux/gerd sickness please? I feel like I have tried everything but my digestive system is so stubborn and I am desperate. Suffered hpylori and now I'm over it. Please help.
@@lucylucy2171 Fresh cabbage juice. Look up Dr. Garnett Cheney and cabbage juice. The main thing is you have to find what foods make you react badly and not consume those. Keep a journal of the foods you eat if you have to. Obviously, you should talk to your doc about it and not just take this advice. Good luck to you.
@@lucylucy2171 This is a no fail fix. I have had problems until I started to eat pickles with my meals. And when the pain wakes me at night I go eat a pickle or drink a tablespoon pickle juice.
I was just watching about squash vine borers and this video came up. I cannot tell you the WEALTH of knowledge that was lost when Mr. Charles, OAG, passed away. It was so good to see his face and hear his voice! I never got to know my Grandfathers. I would hope that they would have one ounce of the passion, and knowledge of gardening, that OAG had! I would have been so proud to have had him as a Grandfather, or Father! I know his family misses him more than we do, but I just want them to know that he is missed fiercely, and was well loved by his many, many fans! We wish his family all the best! GOD bless
I didn't know. I'm so sorry for his family's, (& friends, others that followed him), loss. I had JUST found his channel here on RU-vid. So much knowledge. He'll be missed. Rest in peace OAG.
I miss you OAG! I’m so glad your channel and videos are here for us to watch. I’ve been growing squash fo 15 years, but never had vine borer problems until this year. I will try to do a better job of protecting my squash plants proactively next year! I wish I could say thank you for all of the advice you gave us over the years. Hopefully your family and friends are maintaining your gardens!
Thank you! I am a new gardener. I had spotted something eating the leaves of one of my squash plants of which all appear to be doing well. I went to the garden mid afternoon today and spotted what I now know to be a Squash Vine Borer Moth sitting on the plant with the leaves that were being eaten. I quickly decided this bug was the culprit. I caught him in a jar and came to the computer to identify him and found your video. I have seen the holes for several days now, so I may be too late. I'm heading back out now to see if I can spot eggs and remove them. I see in another post that OAG has passed. I will send my thank you to heaven. I'm sure he's still tending a garden somewhere.
Hello and welcome to my videos. Thank you. I share my secrets with you about growing most vegetables. If you haven't already, *_I invite you to subscribe and watch_* as I upload more videos during the summer growing season. Thanks for watching. OAG
So sorry for everyone’s loss of this very wise man 😢. He is very easy to follow & listen to what he’s saying….. w/o a lot of gibberish in between 😊. Going in my file for year for sure 🤩👵🏻👩🌾❣️
Miss you greatly OAG, thank you Mrs OAG for leaving his videos up for us to continue to watch he was a great man!! Will be doing this as soon as my plants are big enough this year, last year we didnt get any the borers got them super early.
Thank you OAG, I know you are looking down on all us gardeners you are still a treasure of information for us through these videos. Thank you to the family for allowing us to still glean knowledge from such a wonderful man.
Here's another 'method' I am putting in my notebook regarding being a successful gardener. Watching many of your videos keeps building my confidence that I can be a victor in eating nice vegetables from my own garden. Your time and effort to help so many of us is appreciated more than you know. Jesus Bless!!
Hello Ms Dasiy, and welcome to my videos. Yep, I am happy to share with you. If you haven't already, *_*I invite you to subscribe*_* and watch as I upload more videos during the summer growing season. Thanks for watching. OAG
I'm so excited about planting my squash this year. I lost all 10 of my plants last year to the squash borers. Thank you so much for the informative videos, I love them.
Hello Lydia, and welcome to my videos. I hope you have much success. Thank you! If you haven't already, *_*I invite you to subscribe*_* and watch as I upload more videos during the summer growing season. Thanks for watching. OAG
Thanks for the tips. I have a very small garden, and am only planting one of many of my vines, and up to 4 zucchini. Every single year the squash borer has gotten the best of me, but I have hope this year won’t be the same!
I have gardened for many years but the SVB has always eluded me. I have seen people cut into the vine after they have invaded but was really looking to prevent. I have recently retired and turned into a RU-vid gardener this summer. I came to your video today and I just loved you and the wisdom you shared. Immediately subscribed. I have much to learn and I love your teaching style.
Wow..love the aluminum foil idea…yrs , yrs ago.. my granddaddy I’m Louisiana.. shows me how he would stick long nails in to the dirt around the tomato plants for sure..3 or 4 places around the stalk so that terrible worm( cut worm I think) would not chop all his new plants down to the soil..he loved his home grown peas , tomatoes, etc..good memories of my granddad..u remind me of him🤗..may GOD bless you and ur family.. thank u for all ur knowledge u give us 🤗🤗
Thanks for the info. I grew up in the Deep South and cannot recall my dad ever having problems with his squash plants, or any plants for that matter. Unfortunately, he’s no longer around to ask questions. I now live in the Florida Panhandle, and I’m having nothing BUT problems. Every year my wife wants me to quit, but I’m too hardheaded, though it certainly is tempting. I’ll certainly try this and see how it goes.
Thank you so much for passing on your wisdom and gardening experiences. Being taught my the generation before me is my absolute favorite way to learn. It is a valuable resource that cannot be beat. During this time of pandemic your knowledge will be more helpful than you could have anticipated. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Thank you Kelly, yes we are well. As the older generations die, the way younger people can learn is by watching videos that actually teach you. That is what I try to do with my videos, show you how to do it. Thank you for watching my videos. If you haven't already, please subscribe. OAG
Wonderful to find tried and true wisdom from somebody close to me. I'm in central Mississippi. Last time I planted crookneck squash I watched them die, one after another down the rows. Not knowing what caused it . The only thing I knew to do was use seven dust, which did no good. Knowledge is power. Thank you. 4Corners MS.
Dang, my plants are really small when I transplant them. I did use foil last year after watching your vidro, but I did 2 other things, too. I allowed my plants to root in more than one spot and mounded dirt over the rooted sections. Then I went vertical! I only had 2 squash, but also had pumpkin I did the same with. Good stuff... hope we're getting more gold farming tips! 😄
We have tried this when an old man gave us some zucchini squash seedlings in July. I used foil at the base and at all the bases of the plant limbs. We grew these in good compost and we had so many squash from those 3 plants we were going to the foodbank to donate every week. It was amazing.
I miss you very much ! God bless your family for keeping all your very informative content up . With my love to you all Mrs Josette Tharp Montgomery County , Texas 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
This is the first year I've tried growing a lot of different things, and the vine borer has torn my pumpkins and zucchini to death! I had no idea what was causing the damage...I thought it was the stink bugs. Now I know what to do to keep my plants safe for next year! So glad I found this channel!
Also if you have them already what do you need to do though, little invasive I admit, is use a knife slice the stem vertically don’t break it off completely, as long as the plant is connected to the stem to the root it will survive, but just keep cutting it until you see the grub and then grab it and kill it. Usually you’ll find them when you see that yellow orange gunky stuff and that’s where you go. Another good thing is that with squash, this includes pumpkins and zucchini even if it is cut off in the main root a lot of times it’ll start rooting itself in other areas main plant mind you, which is a nice bonus and a good smile against those nasty suckers.
Thank you so much for this! It's my first year growing squash, and I thought the only way to get rid of these pesky worms was to cut them out of the stem. I've had multiple worms in every single plant - acorn squash, straight yellow squash, yellow patty pans, and pie pumpkins. I've expanded my vocabulary this year (and not in a good way), and a couple days ago ripped out everything in frustration and gave up. Seeing this made me run to my seed stash to see what I had that I would still have time to replant! Will let you know how it goes. Again - thanks so much! (from Texas)
I wish I could do that but we plant so many. WE sell produce . Got 3 beautiful rows right now loaded with squash.we sell lots,got around 1300 tomatoe plants out. Lots of okra and purple hull peas and green beans! Love the videos! Keep making and planting . Marlene Willoughby farmer from SC / School bus driver.Thanks !
Thank you Charles! I’ve used foil before, but I thought 4 inches was enough.... and they got every bush! I will try again!!!!! You make it look so easy😁. I so appreciate you sharing your vast knowledge of growing!
Well I guess I hate the boarows enough to donate a little weeks growth , Like every one else hate seeing my sqarsh plants thriving and die the same week. .Hate spraying poison on my food, Suppose if the bugs won't eat it or die the same thing going happen to me First time I saw your video and you get the message out clearly Sir. I would think they would just attack up the vine at the top of the foil But figure don't teach but doing is how I learn Sir thanks, I've noticed that moth and knew he was a moth but didn't know how bad he is. 97 percent of the insect don't hurt and many helpful. Thanks for showing Sir
Thanks, Now after your aluminum foil trick I saying that works great the six plants 5 summer squash and 1 zucchini that was planned early and all are still producing more than ever, Never have my sqarsh plants last all summer but I love it. Yes I sujust anyone to do give it a try and Sir thanks for showing and teaching.
Hey, Candy. I didn't get mine covered high enough and the ratchet fratchet moths nailed each one...even though I also covered the plants with cheesecloth! Moths = 💩💩💩logs
For me in south Louisiana (9A), they attack my zucchini instead of my summer squash (although I plant much more zucchini because of preference). I will definitely try this with my second crop and beyond. Thank you sir! Liked, subscribed, and shared.
The moths fly from early to mid June. I would suggest netting your squash plants with tulle, until their life cycle is past. Then open the netting on the top of the plant so plants can be pollenated, using clothes pins to net the bottom of the vine.
I just began my annual research into how to beat the borers and came across this. I am sorry to hear that he has passed. I am looking forward to using this method this year and hope it is some consolation to his survivors that this information will be archived here for the benefit of all.
Hello Mary and welcome to my videos. Thanks for adding your knowledge to this. If you haven't already, *_*I invite you to subscribe and watch*_* as I upload more videos during the summer growing season. Thanks for watching. OAG
I just discovered this past had attacked all my plants. They are still alive and doing ok, surprisingly. I started picking at the holes in the vine and was able to kill several of them. I then sprayed BT spray in the existing holes hoping to kill any left in the vine. Only time will tell. Love your videos
Thank you for the picture of the adult moth! It looks like a firefly. I'm getting so good at this. I killed 10 squash vine borers this morning We should have squash coming out of our ears if we do this right. My dream is to grow enough food to be able to donate to the food bank. They have blessed me so much, I want to give back 🌽🌽🌽🌽🥕🥕🥕🥕
If you have already seen the moth, look very close at the stem, starting at the ground for any sign of "Frass", this is produced as the egg hatched and the worm burrowed into the stem. Other than that, you will not see any signs of infestation until your plants start wilting and dying. By then it is too late. OAG
Okay... I see where I've been going wrong. Wrapping the base always seemed impossible, but stripping then wrapping it like that before even planting makes it easy. A little tougher with direct seeding, but maybe I can adapt one way or the other. Thanks for the advice. ...And I've missed him, it seems. Condolences to the family, and my thanks all the same.
OAG , I am following your foil method. Tomorrow they go in the garden! I am also injecting them with BT. I read that putting tobacco ashes in the hole when you plant them helps so I got some pipe tobacco to do that. Whew! A lot to do just to outsmart those evil bugs!
Hello Nancy and welcome to my videos. Sounds like you have many fond memories of your Dad. If you haven't already, *_*I invite you to subscribe*_* and watch as I upload more videos during the summer growing season. Thanks for watching. OAG
Hello HHH, and welcome to my videos. Yep, I guess you could say that. Thank you! If you haven't already, *_*I invite you to subscribe*_* and watch as I upload more videos during the summer growing season. Thanks for watching. OAG
Hello Nancy and welcome to my videos. It is a difficult pest to stop. If you haven't already, *_*I invite you to subscribe*_* and watch as I upload more videos during the summer growing season. Thanks for watching. OAG
Until I found your video I was totally convinced the squash bug was the culprit of dying squash plants. Thank you for this very interesting information.
Hello and welcome to my videos. If you are not having problems with the Squash Vine Borer (SVB) then you probably don't need to wrap the stems with foil. OAG
Hello Shelley and welcome to my videos. I understand your feelings. If you haven't already, I invite you to subscribe and watch as I upload more videos during the summer growing season. Thanks for watching. OAG
First time gardener and I just lost 2 zucchini plant to squash bores. Now I’m going to try again using your method. I’m not giving up ;). Thank you for sharing your knowledge! ❤️
Hello, and welcome to my videos. Thank you! I hope this works for you. If you haven't already, *_*I invite you to subscribe*_* and watch as I upload more videos during the summer growing season. Thanks for watching. OAG
Hello Merrilee, and welcome to my videos. Thank you for your encouraging words. If you haven't already, *_*I invite you to subscribe*_* and watch as I upload more videos during the summer growing season. Thanks for watching. OAG
Hello Vernon and welcome to my videos. No, I don't continue covering the plant as it grows. Thanks for watching what I am doing in my garden. And please subscribe and share my channel and videos with all your family, friends and on any social media you are on such as Twitter, Instagram and facebook. OAG
We have squash bugs so bad here in Southern Arkansas that we haven't grown any type of squash, cucumbers, watermelon or cantaloupe in a long time, due to the squash bugs. We even resorted to pulling the plants out of the ground, because of the millions of eggs on the underside of the leaves, and burning them. We will give this a try on our winter squash and pray it works. Thank you so much for this wonderful video. May God bless you...
You really should be using a product called: Pyola. It is a contact pesticide and doesn't remain viable on the plants. That means it has to actually contact the insect to kill it. You can buy it at: Gardensalive.com Research it and you will find it is safe for you to use and it works. OSG
I literally typed “old southern gardening” into my search bar I am so dang glad that I have you to come to for advice. My people are all gone and buried and I have no one to ask anymore. You my friend are a absolute godsend. I just don’t care to listen to some of these people on here that act like they have been gardening for 30 years when they are only 21 yrs old 😂 No hate just truth
Hey OAG, thanks for the tips. I have a few questions. I planted my seeds 5-6 weeks ago & it’s now first of Oct. 20’. I feed my plants fish emulsion & they grew like never before, massive & huge. These pesky bugs ha e begin killing my plants one by one. Couldn’t believe how many squash buds were present. I’ve seen that moth, but didn’t know who she was until now. Here’s my question. With my plants growing so large at first, they grow out all over the ground. Do I keep adding foil as the plants grown, continuing cut away as the plants grow? Also, these pesky worms have not only grown into the vine but also into the leave stems themselves. Throughout the leaf stems there’s several holes where it seems they bore, not through the vine but directly into the leave steam. I started them from seed directly into the ground in mounds. I then gradually covered them with more and more grass & yard clippings that I mulched up. I thought since the plants themselves were laying all over the yard that the worms were just crawling up the plants in many different ways. The leaf stems & vines are spread out all over the ground. Am I supposed to wrap the leaf stems also since there inside the stems too? Thank you in advance for your time & guidance!
I think you have a different pest problem because you said they bore into the leaf stems. The Squash Vine Borer (SVB), in my experience, only bores into the main stem of the plant. The other pest, that I think you are having, is called a Pickle Worm, and it will bore into the leaf stem and then travel into the main stem. Wrapping the main stem will not stop the Pickle worm. Late planted squash, cucumbers, cantaloupes, are very susceptible to Pickle worm damage. I don't know of any way to control the Pickle worm other than frequent spraying with a insecticide spray. Thank you for watching my videos. I am trying to reach a major goal of subscribers, you can help me by asking all your friends and family to subscribe to my RU-vid channel. Thank you. OAG OAG
OldAlabamaGardener thanks for your feedback, yeah they now completely destroyed my crop, sad but I’ve learned a valuable lesson. I did see the same moth in you video just sitting on my squash plant the other day so I’m sure it’s the vine bore. I am surprise at how many worms there have been. They kind of resemble the look of a lightning bug which so I didn’t do anything about it when I saw it. But next year, it’s game on....! Thanks again!
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I will have to try this next year - but I’ve been finding eggs all up the stem of the leaves and on the flower bases. Not just the base. Maybe TX SVB are more aggressive lol. I’m wondering if it’s even worth it trying again.
I am having the same problem, also live in Tx.... :/ Growing pumpkins on a trellis, but I find svb larvae and eggs all over the plant, not just at the base! 🙃 Wish I had a solution
Try spraying with BT and Neem oil and manually remove the eggs! You can also remove secondary vines if a vine borer gets in there, but if it's at the base of the plant you could lose the whole plant.
I’m in Tennessee and currently having the same problem. Every day I have to go out to each plant and carefully look them over for eggs, spray with neem oil, dust with DE, I’ve wrapped the stem with foil. I still have found larvae in leaf stems. Not going to give up though.
This is the first time I've ever heard of an effective way to keep the squash vine borer from destroying plants. I subscribed and gave you a thumbs up. Thank you for posting this. Blessings to you and your loved ones...
My grandmother, an OldGeorgiaGardner, used to do this but also trimmed her leaves. She said it allowed the plant to nourish the fruits better. Ever tried that, just curious. Excellent video!
I am a novice gardener. I had two beautiful zucchini plants but did not watch this video early enough to prevent damage by the squash vine borer. Thanks for the information, which I will use to prevent the SVB from killing my plants next year.
Hello and welcome to my videos. I hear from many folks that they have squash vine borer problems. Some have tried this and say it didn't help. The only way to know is to try it. Thank you for watching my videos. Please subscribe so you will be notified when I upload more videos. OAG
I've just begun planting squash my dad always had fresh squash but I didn't think it was that hard to grow any vegetable. But thanks to all your videos we can learn more from our older generations and how they had these beautiful gardens. THK YOU VERY MUCH. RIP
Very nice trick. I do the same with my tomato fruit when they're sizing up but still green, wrap em in foil and the birds won't touch 'em. Never occurred to me to use foil on my squash for the borer moths. Brilliant!
I have been at my wits end about how to solve this awful problem. A fellow with a Ph.D in horticulture was USELESS. Thank you so very much. ❤ Cynthia in Texas
I have been watching "Deep South Homestead" for a while and today I was watching Wanda can okra using Old Alabama Gardener method. This is the first time I heard of this wonderful channel so I followed the link shown on her channel to get here. I have been looking at videos most of the day on ROKU, but I couldn't comment from there so I'm using my computer to say how much I have learned! I'm an old gal and some of the veggies in my garden are a first for my husband and me to grow! I am growing bush green beans and have a problem with something that looks like little tiny slugs eating the leaves. Hope to find something on this channel that will explain how to get rid of them (hopefully not hand picking because they are cold, slimey and gross!) So a big thanks to Wanda for heading me here!
Thank you Old Alabama Gardener! I have been killing Stink Bugs. I didn't know what the Squash vine borer moth looked like! And I have seen them (not this year. 😊) flying around and landing. I will go ahead and wrap my Squash vines as you have done! 😊 ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ Many thanks from another Alabama Gardener. I am just now learning how to garden. But I did try a couple of times before. Before there was RU-vid. Thank God for the people like you who are teaching me the things I never learned growing up. 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌 This year is a learning process. Small harvest, so far, but at least my plants grew! I will have a fall garden soon. So much to learn! Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks! 😊 (I'll be 66 in a couple of months). May God richly bless you and yours!
OAG you are a treasure and are missed! For those reading who tried this and it did not work, it wasn't you. The SVB that attack my garden lay eggs all down the vine, even if the vine is twenty feet long. I still recommend people follow his tip because it does work for some people. I've found some other strategies though. Some of us just have too high a population for the foil to work. OAG would want us to keep trying. RIP garden friend.
I will try this method this year. I tried the foil in past years, but I did not trim the flowers and leaves to go far enough up. That was the critical piece of info I was missing. Thank you so much! Those bugs have given me a fit and caused me a lot of frustration. Maybe this year I can beat them!
I was blaming the stink bugs. My zucchini and squash have finally succumbed to the squash bugs. I didn't have these last year. I won't have them next year, THANK YOU! Just found your channel, I subscribed.
You are RIGHT! While I was looking for those stinkbug beetles, I watched a reddish-orange and black "wasp" putting tiny drops all over my beautiful squash. I got 2 yellow squash before the plant died. I'm doing netting next season.
