Surgery!

Not only am i hand pollinating my zucchini's, but now Anthony is performing surgery on them. We are doing surgery to get rid of these little guys.....
This is called a Squash Vine Borer(SVB) and they will kill zuuchini and squash in 6 weeks. They come from moths that I am pretty sure that my mother and friendly neighbor will not have to do with. This happened to me in both South Carolina and Georgia, however I did nothing about it and soon my plants died. This year is different, I actually I enjoy zucchini and squash and I am not going to succumb to the grub!!! This is what the vine looked like after surgery.

So I am sure you are now thinking, how did I know what this was and what to do.....well, in Georgia every sunday they had a gardening show on specific to Georgia and one of the sundays was all about SVB. So when it started to show up on my vines here I went to a great book I have and discovered that the moths are here too! There is not much you can do once it happens and surgery only has a small success rate. So while all my vines are infected we just did surgery on one vine to see how it goes. If the plant survives we will be attempting to do more surgery. Its always something new in garden, good and bad!

Sweet Gardening dreams!