SQUASH BUGS!

Squash Bug!

If you do head down to the garden this week to do a little work, keep on eye on the squash plants as the SQUASH BUG has infested! The only promising organic means of exterminating this unsightly creature is to squash him between your thumb and forefinger! If we stay on top of eradication we'll have healthy squash all season, which, that being said, the SB has already gotten to a few squash plants.  Yikes!

For those that do NOT know what the squash bugs or the eggs look like, see this VERY helpful link sent by our very own Jerry Stringfellow: 

http://www.elperfecto.com/2010/06/25/squash-bugs-what-are-they-and-how-to-get-rid-of-them/

Jessie: that was a squash bug that you brought over last week for inspection! Good work --- they must perish! That was a HUGE adult and if you could only imagine how many babies come out of those eggs. Squash the bugs away!

One other word of caution w/ all of this unusual rain we are having: please do NOT pick the beans when the bean plants are wet as it spreads bacteria to the plants.