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| I finally put in my fall garden yesterday. I planted three different kinds of spinach, three different kinds of lettuce, radishes, collards, and spinach mustard. I also planted a few zucchini seeds in pots I can move around to avoid the squash bugs. Next week I will be setting out broccoli, green cabbage, and red cabbage plants I started from seed. I'm also setting out some brussels sprouts to see if they will eventually mature later this winter, or next spring, in a hoop house. My only regret is that I didn't get peas planted in time.
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how do you avoid squash bugs by moving your pots. For example, do you move them to another side of the house? how far away?
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JohnnyAd (8/27/2010)
What zone are you in? That is a very good question! I always thought I was in Zone 5. However, I was browsing some hardiness zone maps and noticed some discrepancies. I am in a different zone depending on whose map you consult. Check out the discrepancies here: USDA map #1: Zone 6 USDA map #2: Zone 5b University of Missouri Extension Center map #1: Zone 5 (on the northern edge of Zone 5) USDA Map #3: Zone 5 (in the middle of Zone 5) USDA map #4: Zone 5 (on the southern edge of zone 5) Mr. Green Thumb web Site: Zone 5b University of Missouri Extension Center map #2: Zone 5a (because we are located in a micro-region called the Lincoln Hills which covers the eastern parts of four counties adjacent to the Mississippi River) My final answer is??????????????? Zone 5! Go to Google Images and type in 'Hardiness Zone Map.' Look at several of the maps and see if you are in the same zone, and the same location within the zone, on the various maps.
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RockingKRanch (8/27/2010)
how do you avoid squash bugs by moving your pots. For example, do you move them to another side of the house? how far away? First of all, I think squash plants in pots just generally tend to attract fewer squash bugs. I don't know why, but that has been my experience. One reason is probably because I set the pots on my pourch, deck, driveway, etc., places where squash bugs don't go or are less likely to go. Second, if I see a squash bug or eggs, it is much easier to squash the bug and rub off the eggs when the plant is in a pot. There is much less area to search. When a squash plant is in the garden, the squash bugs could be hiding awywhere, even in the soil where you can't see them. If I see a bug or eggs I destroy them, search the plant, soil, and poy carefully, and then move the pot to the opposite side of the house. Some squash plants get pretty large so after a while you have to move them very delicately. And in some cases after a while they are just too spread out to move. I am currently experimenting with a natural squash bug pesticide. If I have some positive results I'll post them. I HATE, HATE, HATE squash bugs!
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Hmm, I am in 6B or 7 Depending on what your looking at. Wonder if I still have time to plant some cool weather crops if I do it this weekend?
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| I would think you still have time, especially if you have the capability of putting a hoop house over a portion of your fall garden.
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Well all I can do is dream about a fall planting. The last finger nail is finally grown back all the way. The "jungle" is still producing tomatoes, cucumbers, there are beans to pull and the attack of the morning gloria vine is back. I got that  vine out of the fig tree and now have to work and pull it by root out of the "jungle." Wanting for cooler days to try and make sense of what needs to pulled out. Mainly we plant mustard greens and radishes. If it does not turn off too cold too fast might get some sweet peas, but then again I have to get control back over the "jungle" that once was a garden.
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| Still to Hot! I'm in Northwest Florida. I did spray RoundUp and going to try and till this weekend. Planting Foodplots for all my pet Deer next weekend. I am going to try Tecomate Monster Mix.
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| Lol C- Your garden sounds like mine. A big jungle adorned with morning glories and some other strange things. I thought there was a lion in there one day but it was just a stray cat. Sadly the heat pretty much did everything in except for the potatoes. Waiting for cooler weather to do my fall garden too. I miss my fresh lettuce and I need my collard greens by New Years Day.
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