I love yellow squash, with onions and butter. Mmmm!!! As I have been learning how to grow my own vegetables, and if you have tried to grow squash, you will probably encounter squash bugs, as I have. I can't stand squash bugs. In 2014, I did not realize how terrible they were and allowed them to live in the garden. They ended up destroying my thriving squash plant.
This year, I plan to win the war against the squash bug. I did not want to use commercial herbicides, since I am trying to be organic. I tried the oil, soap, pepper spray mix but it ended up damaging my plants too. In a gardening book, I saw the design for a straw & jar vacuum thing, to suck up insect pests, but the fear of sucking a bug into my mouth bothered me.
So, the next best thing was to buy a Dirt Devil cordless hand vacuum. I took it to the garden and sucked up all the nasty little squash bugs I could find. It worked very well!! Dumped those guys into a collecting bucket and I plan to go out every day or so to collect as many as I can.
I hope to win this war and keep the number of squash bugs down so that my squash will produce those delicious vegetables I like so much.
Do you have a natural/organic method of managing pests in the garden?
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