I’m Not Strong on Pinterest for Pest Control.
Don’t ask me to choose between going all summer without sex or without a squash casserole.
That would be a poser indeed.
Waking up countless times the other night, the same image was in my head.
A squash vine with a borer hole.
Since I’ve been preoccupied with keeping borers from decimating my squash this year, I assumed that was the reason behind the dreams.
Then I read about bugs in dreams how that means something’s worrying you. And vegetables in dreams, spiritual nourishment. Of course there could be a sexual connotation to bugs (they might represent sexual thoughts) and squash (fertility and abundance.)
All I want is a squash casserole this summer.
Or maybe I am subconsciously chewing the cud of withered fertility, Sahara sexuality and something drilling holes in large green fertile vines.
Really all I think I want is a squash casserole.
Last year those d@nm bugs, left me with one yellow squash and about five zucchini.
Six squash. All summer.
Honestly, if I hadn’t witnessed it myself, I wouldn’t have thought it possible. My June usually consists of carting supermarket bags of squash all over town — to people who are too kind to say they have their own car full of supermarket bags of squash they are carting around town to give away.
Not last year. Nothing.
Annie at our local extension office was most helpful and forwarded me information on organic control of vine borers. One of the suggestions from a well-known university was to make aluminum foil barriers around the base of the plant — or something like that.
I’m not strong on Pinterest ideas for pest control. I’d just want to spray the cr@p out of something and be done with it.
Here is a nice healthy zucchini.
I started inspecting the green fellow like I’d opened up a preschooler’s book bag and discovered a note heralding there’s a slight case of lice in the class.
What is this? An egg?
Whatever it was, it is no more. Crushed between my fingers like a wee beastie should be.
It probably was nothing. From what I’ve read the borers don’t come out till later in the process right after the blossoms. Or is it right before the blossoms?
Well, that’s the state of my squash and of my dreams.
I really started this post with the intention of asking advice for rabbit control.
So . . .
Off to check my traps for any collected coyote teeter for my Pinterest post on rabbit control . . .
Any advice on the squash?
