[Sca-cooks] Re: Poke salad

[Mark Zawadzki]

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two other borer remedies :
1) put aluminum foil under the plant, it confuses the wasp whose grub does
the damage.
2) bury the vines as they extend at regualr intervals. The vines will put
out adventigious roots.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: sca-cooks-admin at ansteorra.org
> [mailto:sca-cooks-admin at ansteorra.org]On Behalf Of Diana Skaggs
> Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 11:01 PM
> To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Re: Poke salad
>
>
> At 06:03 PM 3/29/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >Squash is a no
> >go thanks to vine borer so I was thinking of planting gourds
> (possibly
> >swan neck or bottle) this year.
> >Helewyse
>
> I heard if you wrapped your squash vines with sections of
> hose, it will
> keep the vine borers out. I always did it, and never had a
> problem. Same
> with cutworms on tomatoes. We always wrapped the young plants
> with strips
> of newspaper. Grandma had an answer for every problem. Even the darned
> armadillo who delicately dug tiny holes to retrieve each pea
> seed. (We used
> moth balls).
>
> Liadan
>
>
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