Squash bugs? i live in the south im trying to find something to get...
i live in the south im trying to find something to get rid of these squash bug i know pyola is polite to use when they are small but if there half grown what is flawless to use
Answers: Organically I would suggest to make a mix in a blender after siphon it, place it into a spray bottle, spray it onto your plants, here is the mix:
4 cups red hot peppers
4 cups water
Another life method is kinda gross but it's good enough to gain into the organic encyclopedia of gardening I read a lot:
A mixture (blended and filtered) of the bugs and hose down, spray them on the plants.
What worked for me was a sprinkling of fireplace ashes every time after I watered the squash. I did it each time and respectively plant lived. Now they are really big and the bugs are not any trouble at all. (to preserve it organic I always used fresh organically grown oak to burn and those wood ashes are pure from a fireplace which is unused for the chemically treated woods sold in stores)
I had tried a blend of garlic and wet and it did nothing.
I also tried a "bait crop" and they got eat too quickly, but it almost worked to detract the bugs to a different location on the plot. I planted seeds 1 inch apart along the distant top of the plot where I was not going to grow squash. They go there and my intended squash had a opening to survive. Soon the bugs just figured it out and attacked the flowers.
I hold also tried planting marigolds between each squash plant, they were pretty and in a minute they are very happily growing but the bugs are still here. I may have had the wrong flower, or they may be immune to the marigolds.