I've been vacuuming up various bugs that get inside (including some squash bugs) for years making sure I also vacuum a little diatomaceous earth afterwards to kill them and prevent them from crawling up the tube but I've never thought to take the vacuum out to my garden to do it. Great idea!
There is something else that helps too. We had hundreds that would gather on the wood on our enclosed garden. I heard they were deterred by patchouli, so I got a a 32oz spray bottle, filled it with warm water, added 2 tbsp patchouli essential oil, 1 tbsp glycerin, and sprayed down all the wood on the enclosure, that was in 2021, I've not seen another one on there since!
We went to a campground in Georgia, in our 40-foot 5th wheel. Stink bugs got inside, and I played hell trying to kill them all. Now I know what I'm going to use for that if that ever happens again. Thank you for sharing 😂😅
Love it. I had so many squash bugs on my two zucchini plants I added the diatomaceous earth and nothing. A few days later the plants melted, probably from the Phoenix sun. The bugs are all my zucchini. But now I am ready for my winter squash garden with this ingenious solution ☀️❣️
yeah I put diatomaceous earth on the leaves of the zucchini plants last year and it burned up the leaves. The bugs won that year, I had to pull all the zucchini out and the acorn squash too as the earwigs also ate all the leaves.
I've vacuumed them up before and they've somehow managed to escape so adding the diatomaceous earth in to the vacuum is INGENIOUS. P.S. Shooting them down with soapy water kills on contact. Thanks Jag!
Magnificent idea thank you so very much, COPD from having covid in early 2020 has really hurt my ability to garden due to breathing issues, , your great 😊
Ha!I just pulled out my zucchini and yellow squash plants because they were infested with squash bugs. Normally I spend time pulling them off the plants, but I’ve been too distracted. So what funny timing for you to post this! 😆
I do the same thing. I'm surprised more ppl don't do this. I use a small hand vacuum when there are a lot of them. When I see one or two, I grab them with a clothes pin lol
I did not know Ryobi made a battery operated vacuum. I have a little 3 gallon, corded, and I use it to pull spiders inside the house and on our patios outside. We have thousands of spiders, so please do not judge me…
What works on squash bugs is dish soap and water. I fill my one gallon sprayer with tap water and put four or five pumps of dish soap in. It kills squash bugs on contact. It also works wonders on powdery mildew.
i tried this , but the plant got all spotty and white spots on all the leaves. not sure if that will hurt the fruit , and bugs were replaced by ants LOL.
Wow, great idea. Seems labor intensive but what other option is there but to use toxins. Good for you, and thanks for sharing. Will check out your choice of vacuum, too, Mr. Genius! Lol. Take care
Sustainably Yours Homestead has a YT video demonstrating in real time how to kill squash bugs on contact using a soapy spray. You can use a plant based dish soap ad maintain organic status. Bees are pollinating squash blossoms and they do land on the leaves at times. I won't sprinkle anyrhing on the leaves that could potentially harm the bees. I love this idea of a vacuum. Unfortunately, my extension cord doesn't reach and I really cannot afford the battery operated model, though it's really cool. I've been resorting to the old catch technique with lidded my jar... but I only have a few plants. I think I'm going to try blasting them with soapy water today, instead.
What do you use when the bugs are on the leaves because I presume the vacuum would damage the leaves? The underside of the leaves is the home for the little bugs that scatter when you turn over a leaf. They are decimating my zucchini and squash before I get fruit. Either the squash or cucumber beetles are also doing the same to my cukes. I am so disheartened that I am ready to try an insecticide just to eliminate them. I am an organic gardener that uses no dig methods but I am desperate. I will try your method first even if it kills some of the leaves. Thank you
Surprisingly the vacuum does not damage the leaves, i get the bugs on leaves with the vacuum too! yo can also shake them off the leaves and vacuum them off the ground.
I have a squash bug look alike with a horizontal stripe and fat black back legs...is that also a squash bug...it also flies away but it's mainly on the top leaves. I also have a green colored worm with a small dark head; they call it a pickle worms here in Georgia. Are the squash with holes still edible? I've been trashing them.
One day at an estate sale we met a lady that was happy to get a blender. She said that she blends up the squash bugs and then puts that on and around the squash garden, and that keeps them away.
I will try vacuum for squash bugs. I understand you tube can be unfair and difficult for posting but I am glad to have found Daisy Creek on YT. If you move I will follow. Or try to. I enjoy your shares.
I’ve had lots of leaf footed bugs (very close relative to SB) but not many squash bugs per se, and Spinosad seems to get rid of them, but the shop vac actually seems easier then mixing the Spinosad.
That’s a great idea. I use B-7000 super glue on the eggs. I don’t have to smush them. The glue hardens and the eggs can’t hatch. It works! I spray the adults and nymphs with soapy water. I haven’t found any squash bugs in the past several days. Hooray!
Hi Jag. Great vid. Varieties of Cucurbita moschata are resistant to squash bugs and stink bugs, so variety selection helps too.Use the C. pepo as a trap crop. I'm a member. I desperately need help with an organic solution for root knot nematodes. I infected my garden from commerical compost, and they've devastated my squash crop. Thanks. Bonnie 9b Tucson AZ
I have a cordless Dyson. Haven’t used it in the garden but have hunted mosquitoes in the house. If you do any cleaning the grit inside the Dyson crushes them. The D. E. same action. Could just use sand or table salt
My grandmother used to vacuum up some ?? bug that would be rampant in the kitchen windows, (she'd get 100s). If I recall correctly, they looked l similar to lady bugs, and had a strong smell
What a brilliant idea. Poor you, I'm lucky we don't get them in the UK! Have you tried Surround. - the kaolin spray? Jenna did a video about it and it looks pretty good. I can't get it in the UK, but we may be able to if enough people need it.
I also think covering them with tulle or a similar mesh would work. In hot sunny weather it would also help them- as they like it a little cooler. I have a very sunny exposure and I’ve found a lot of my veggies do better with a little shade relief. Especially bell peppers, which surprised me.
0:33 what brand is your shop vac? That is a fantastic idea. I quit growing zucchini because I was tired of fighting those bugs. Even the chickens turned up their nose at them.
brand is visible at 1:10 but any vacuum would work. Naturally if it's a battery powered / cordless model it would be much easier to use in a big garden.
Many people mix a little DE with the chicken feed to keep the chickens de-wormed. Or give them a box of DE to use as a dust bath. So, no, it won't hurt the chickens.
Good idea, but be prepared. I've vacuumed up stink bugs before and the vac stank pretty bad afterwards. It takes quite awhile to get rid of that smell.
Simply looking over your plants and eliminating the eggs works very well. We have over 100 plants and it takes about 30 minutes 3 times a week to find and eliminate the leaves.
Found this tip on Facebook Gardening 101 with Farmer Mike video.. He uses Fireplace Ashes. Before he plants. He says if you have established plants . You can spread the ashes around the plant, and work in lightly. Also keeps the Vine Borers away.
Lady farmer is South Dakota says the only thing she used to kill squash bugs is 3 drops of LIQUID Sevin on the vine where it comes out of the ground every 2-3 days and after it rains. Powder does not work. It has to be the liquid.
That sounds more like she's dealing with squash vine borers, which some people call squash bugs (incorrectly, because they aren't bugs, they're moth larvae).
Whoa. I thought I was having trouble killing a couple dozen on my two little straightnecks yesterday. (And at least that many hatchlings, which I immediately nailed with duct tape!) That is so many. If I had a field that size I'd have to resort to the shop vac too. Instead I used garden gloves, a nitrile glove, and and I squashed. and duct taped the eggs. so gross. I don't blame them for being, but I can't let them get to my sugar babies. I finally have a good crop!
I use a smaller handheld vacuum (much smaller garden), also just a couple drops of rubbing alcohol in the vacuum chamber is enough to kill them all. I find it easier and cleaner to just gas em with the alcohol
I put our pool in the middle of the field. It attracted frogs, so we get frog eggs in it that I transferred to a stock tank. Now we have hundreds of extra frogs. And almost NO squash bugs or other bugs that eat my crops.
We grow Pumpkins and Squash in 1/2 Acre, rest is Fruits and Berries. Even in 1/2 acre, the squash bugs gather on just 4 to 5 plants. They like to concentrate on chosen plants, so it's very easy to get rid of them with vacuum even on acreage.
I use a portable hand vac with sufficient suction power like 20V lithium, made an adapter tube with 1 1/2" PVC to fit the vac with a screen made of window bug mesh in the mid section(it's two sections with a screen in betwee so I can to catch all the bugs then dump them all into a jug filled with soapy water, if I see any eggs I'll cut it out with a paper cutter and drop that into the jug as well, this works all almost all bugs, beetles, slugs, vine borer and squash bugs too. This has been very effective in controlling most bugs in my garden!
Those buggers are such a scourge. We used to do the best we could by picking them and the eggs off, using DE for the nymphs, and planting a trap crop. Towards the end of the season, we would pull up all the squash and burn the plants, along with the trap plants. In the Ozarks where we lived, they didn't seem to bother winter squash much. If I wasn't sick of squash at the end of the season, we would plant some more late-summer squash and zucchini. The chickens didn't seem to like them though.
I've found spraying with water mixed with a couple tablespoons of dawn worked after a couple of spray downs every 2-3 days. I've been watching since for more & so far, after about a month, I haven't seen more yet. They did alot off damage to my cukes though, before I could do this, due to continuous rain.
I have tried this solution and it only works. If you don't have very many period once they lay eggs in the soil, the Battle has Begun! Eggs in the soil the battle has begun!
I love this idea, Jag! The problem is my pumpkins are so big and sprawling that I can’t get in and around them. Not sure how to do it with that situation.
Me too. I had a bunch of pumpkins come up volunteer from my compost pile, and I let them go. I have thousands and thousands of squash bugs everywhere. They killed all my beautiful butternut squash too. I’m not sure I will grow squash anymore.
I like your solution to use the vacuum. I tried soap. I have to keep going back to soak them. You spent money on the vacuum, but as Paul Kersey said in "Death Wish IV" when his good friend saw him making his own bullets to combat neighborhood thugs, "Nothing is too good for our friends."
We grow Pumpkins and Squash in 1/2 Acre, rest is Fruits and Berries. Even in 1/2 acre, the squash bugs gather on just 4 to 5 plants. They like to concentrate on chosen plants, so it's very easy to get rid of them with vacuum even on acreage.
I've been vacuuming up various bugs that get inside (including some squash bugs) for years making sure I also vacuum a little diatomaceous earth afterwards to kill them and prevent them from crawling up the tube but I've never thought to take the vacuum out to my garden to do it. Great idea!
Thank you, I stopped growing squash because of these bugs.
There is something else that helps too. We had hundreds that would gather on the wood on our enclosed garden. I heard they were deterred by patchouli, so I got a a 32oz spray bottle, filled it with warm water, added 2 tbsp patchouli essential oil, 1 tbsp glycerin, and sprayed down all the wood on the enclosure, that was in 2021, I've not seen another one on there since!
Thank you for sharing 😊
2 table spoons of eo?
@@HollyOak yes, 1-ounce, to spray wood on the enclosure, seems like a lot but 2 years later the bugs have not returned.
Wow, I must be part squash bug since I hate patchouli too 🤣
We went to a campground in Georgia, in our 40-foot 5th wheel. Stink bugs got inside, and I played hell trying to kill them all. Now I know what I'm going to use for that if that ever happens again. Thank you for sharing 😂😅
That's brilliant Jag!! And I'll bet your chickens love to help you clean out the vacuum!
I agree! This is a brilliant idea. Thanks, Jag .😊
Chickens love them!
Jag, you just started a natural pest management trend 🌱😅 Great idea & thanks for sharing!
I get these bugs on my house in the fall and I've been using a shop vac with diatomaceous earth for several years Glad to know I'm not alone.
I love all your clever solutions to gardening problems. Thanks, Jag!
Oh my goodness, this video came at the perfect time, thank you!
Love it. I had so many squash bugs on my two zucchini plants I added the diatomaceous earth and nothing. A few days later the plants melted, probably from the Phoenix sun. The bugs are all my zucchini. But now I am ready for my winter squash garden with this ingenious solution ☀️❣️
Get 'em with the vacuum!!
yeah I put diatomaceous earth on the leaves of the zucchini plants last year and it burned up the leaves. The bugs won that year, I had to pull all the zucchini out and the acorn squash too as the earwigs also ate all the leaves.
I've vacuumed them up before and they've somehow managed to escape so adding the diatomaceous earth in to the vacuum is INGENIOUS. P.S. Shooting them down with soapy water kills on contact. Thanks Jag!
I just use a taser to zap them off. More fun too 👍
Wow!! Great advice. 👍
Magnificent idea thank you so very much, COPD from having covid in early 2020 has really hurt my ability to garden due to breathing issues, , your great 😊
Ha!I just pulled out my zucchini and yellow squash plants because they were infested with squash bugs. Normally I spend time pulling them off the plants, but I’ve been too distracted. So what funny timing for you to post this! 😆
I do the same thing. I'm surprised more ppl don't do this. I use a small hand vacuum when there are a lot of them. When I see one or two, I grab them with a clothes pin lol
I did not know Ryobi made a battery operated vacuum. I have a little 3 gallon, corded, and I use it to pull spiders inside the house and on our patios outside. We have thousands of spiders, so please do not judge me…
Love ryobi tools
The slightly larger one(more traditional shop vac shaped) is better imo, i use it all the time even though i have both
Genius! Thank you for sharing!❤😊
What works on squash bugs is dish soap and water. I fill my one gallon sprayer with tap water and put four or five pumps of dish soap in. It kills squash bugs on contact. It also works wonders on powdery mildew.
Thank you!
i tried this , but the plant got all spotty and white spots on all the leaves. not sure if that will hurt the fruit , and bugs were replaced by ants LOL.
I tried that and got the real good, but it had no effect on them.
thanks for this. We lost our butternut squash and our zucchini because of them and didnt know this. Thank you so much.
Wow, great idea. Seems labor intensive but what other option is there but to use toxins. Good for you, and thanks for sharing. Will check out your choice of vacuum, too, Mr. Genius! Lol. Take care
That's a very good idea, thank you for sharing it!
Vacuum Thrips too?? Or what do you suggest? 💚
Is it food grade DE so that you are able to feed them to the chickens?
This is brilliant, thanks for sharing.
Thank you for all the wonderful information you share, it's appropriated!
I like your honesty. yes it does it taste like grass. I take a glass of orange juice afterwoods.
Also flip over the leaves and even on stems,stalks check for thier little amber egg clusters!
Sustainably Yours Homestead has a YT video demonstrating in real time how to kill squash bugs on contact using a soapy spray. You can use a plant based dish soap ad maintain organic status.
Bees are pollinating squash blossoms and they do land on the leaves at times. I won't sprinkle anyrhing on the leaves that could potentially harm the bees. I love this idea of a vacuum. Unfortunately, my extension cord doesn't reach and I really cannot afford the battery operated model, though it's really cool.
I've been resorting to the old catch technique with lidded my jar... but I only have a few plants. I think I'm going to try blasting them with soapy water today, instead.
Love it!! Seems very satisfying in a twisted way to me.🤔
WOW Jag what a brilliant idea, just vacuum them up with a shop vac. Amazing!
What do you use when the bugs are on the leaves because I presume the vacuum would damage the leaves? The underside of the leaves is the home for the little bugs that scatter when you turn over a leaf. They are decimating my zucchini and squash before I get fruit. Either the squash or cucumber beetles are also doing the same to my cukes. I am so disheartened that I am ready to try an insecticide just to eliminate them. I am an organic gardener that uses no dig methods but I am desperate. I will try your method first even if it kills some of the leaves. Thank you
Surprisingly the vacuum does not damage the leaves, i get the bugs on leaves with the vacuum too! yo can also shake them off the leaves and vacuum them off the ground.
What a great idea always great tips
I have a squash bug look alike with a horizontal stripe and fat black back legs...is that also a squash bug...it also flies away but it's mainly on the top leaves.
I also have a green colored worm with a small dark head; they call it a pickle worms here in Georgia.
Are the squash with holes still edible? I've been trashing them.
One day at an estate sale we met a lady that was happy to get a blender. She said that she blends up the squash bugs and then puts that on and around the squash garden, and that keeps them away.
AHA! When they face their mortality they run! Wonder how many Squash bugs it takes to fill a blender? LOL
@@dougm2250 way more than I would ever care to catch. Lol
Thats the best method in my opinion. It works with aphids as well
I will try vacuum for squash bugs. I understand you tube can be unfair and difficult for posting but I am glad to have found Daisy Creek on YT. If you move I will follow. Or try to. I enjoy your shares.
I can see that that works. This summer I had thousands of them! I found that they tend to hide in curled up dead leaves. What do you do about those?
Thanks for the sharing my biggest problem right now is grasshoppers I walk the yard and pull their heads off 🤣🤣 catch you next
I’ve had lots of leaf footed bugs (very close relative to SB) but not many squash bugs per se, and Spinosad seems to get rid of them, but the shop vac actually seems easier then mixing the Spinosad.
Another issue with spinosad is that it is so broad spectrum that it kills beneficial insects as well as pests.
Brilliant idea, Jag!
I wonder if this would work for blister bugs?!
Brilliant! I am so doing this! So satisfying to see you vacuum them up😂
That’s a great idea. I use B-7000 super glue on the eggs. I don’t have to smush them. The glue hardens and the eggs can’t hatch. It works! I spray the adults and nymphs with soapy water. I haven’t found any squash bugs in the past several days. Hooray!
Hi Jag. Great vid. Varieties of Cucurbita moschata are resistant to squash bugs and stink bugs, so variety selection helps too.Use the C. pepo as a trap crop. I'm a member. I desperately need help with an organic solution for root knot nematodes. I infected my garden from commerical compost, and they've devastated my squash crop. Thanks. Bonnie 9b Tucson AZ
Some types of nematodes will eat the bad ones.
Try Bt maybe?
I just added a battery powered shop vac to my Christmas lis!
Fascinating Jag.
Thank you.
I have a cordless Dyson. Haven’t used it in the garden but have hunted mosquitoes in the house. If you do any cleaning the grit inside the Dyson crushes them. The D. E. same action. Could just use sand or table salt
Creative! Wish I’d known this earlier, but I will try it next year for sure! Thanks!
Insecticidal soap works perfect for me! Or soap and water!
My grandmother used to vacuum up some ?? bug that would be rampant in the kitchen windows, (she'd get 100s). If I recall correctly, they looked l similar to lady bugs, and had a strong smell
That's an invasive species called "Asian Lady Beetle." They're nasty, they stink, and they're unhealthy to have around.
Have you tried vacuuming the eggs as well? They are hard to get off without dropping some.
you can use a sticky tape to get the eggs off the leaves.
@@DaisyCreekFarms Wow, I never thought of that. Thank you!
I'm definitely going to use your technique. Very good idea
Pure genius! Thank you!
That is such a great idea!!
What a brilliant idea. Poor you, I'm lucky we don't get them in the UK! Have you tried Surround. - the kaolin spray? Jenna did a video about it and it looks pretty good. I can't get it in the UK, but we may be able to if enough people need it.
I saw that YT video by Growfully With Jenna and I am definitely going for it next year.
Very good idea
brilliant! Thank you for this tip this is the best yet!!!!!!!
I also think covering them with tulle or a similar mesh would work. In hot sunny weather it would also help them- as they like it a little cooler. I have a very sunny exposure and I’ve found a lot of my veggies do better with a little shade relief. Especially bell peppers, which surprised me.
Wow! Thank you for sharing!
I am so going to do this. Brilliant. Thanks
0:33 what brand is your shop vac? That is a fantastic idea. I quit growing zucchini because I was tired of fighting those bugs. Even the chickens turned up their nose at them.
brand is visible at 1:10 but any vacuum would work. Naturally if it's a battery powered / cordless model it would be much easier to use in a big garden.
Could I use a handheld car vacuum to do the damage thing, or is that too small?
you can use it, however you need a bigger opining because some squash bugs are big
Good idea to vacuum the quash bugs
Excellent idea to vacuum up the bugs! But, are the chickens not affected by the diatomaceous earth?
Many people mix a little DE with the chicken feed to keep the chickens de-wormed. Or give them a box of DE to use as a dust bath. So, no, it won't hurt the chickens.
Thank you
I’ve found the green versions of these- are they the same? I caught 2 mating and squished them with my sandals!!
So clever. I bet they are glad they surveyed you. I hope you decide to do some Ag consulting at some point.
Yes it was a fun interview! and yes I do provide Ag consulting on my website daisycreekfarms.com
Good idea, but be prepared. I've vacuumed up stink bugs before and the vac stank pretty bad afterwards. It takes quite awhile to get rid of that smell.
Great idea!!!
Simply looking over your plants and eliminating the eggs works very well. We have over 100 plants and it takes about 30 minutes 3 times a week to find and eliminate the leaves.
His do you do that so quickly?! You must have a large team... It's just me 😢
They still tend to get out of hand. For bad infestations it's hard to keep up with how fast they breed and grow.
Found this tip on Facebook Gardening 101 with Farmer Mike video.. He uses Fireplace Ashes. Before he plants. He says if you have established plants . You can spread the ashes around the plant, and work in lightly. Also keeps the Vine Borers away.
Clever idea but how do you vacuum the leaves without shredding them?
Lady farmer is South Dakota says the only thing she used to kill squash bugs is 3 drops of LIQUID Sevin on the vine where it comes out of the ground every 2-3 days and after it rains. Powder does not work. It has to be the liquid.
Maybe, but he’s an organic gardener. Is Sevin organic? I wouldn’t use it
That sounds more like she's dealing with squash vine borers, which some people call squash bugs (incorrectly, because they aren't bugs, they're moth larvae).
Whoa. I thought I was having trouble killing a couple dozen on my two little straightnecks yesterday. (And at least that many hatchlings, which I immediately nailed with duct tape!) That is so many. If I had a field that size I'd have to resort to the shop vac too. Instead I used garden gloves, a nitrile glove, and and I squashed. and duct taped the eggs. so gross. I don't blame them for being, but I can't let them get to my sugar babies. I finally have a good crop!
Great idea 😊
I use a smaller handheld vacuum (much smaller garden), also just a couple drops of rubbing alcohol in the vacuum chamber is enough to kill them all. I find it easier and cleaner to just gas em with the alcohol
That's a good technique! Thanks for sharing!
Very nice
I put our pool in the middle of the field. It attracted frogs, so we get frog eggs in it that I transferred to a stock tank. Now we have hundreds of extra frogs. And almost NO squash bugs or other bugs that eat my crops.
The Hoover. Picked It all up😮
👏👏👏👏🤣🤣🤣🤣 awesome idea. Hard work but you make it seem easy given the size of your farm
We grow Pumpkins and Squash in 1/2 Acre, rest is Fruits and Berries. Even in 1/2 acre, the squash bugs gather on just 4 to 5 plants. They like to concentrate on chosen plants, so it's very easy to get rid of them with vacuum even on acreage.
Plant a trap crop like one Blue Hubbard squash and they will concentrate on that one.
I use a portable hand vac with sufficient suction power like 20V lithium, made an adapter tube with 1 1/2" PVC to fit the vac with a screen made of window bug mesh in the mid section(it's two sections with a screen in betwee so I can to catch all the bugs then dump them all into a jug filled with soapy water, if I see any eggs I'll cut it out with a paper cutter and drop that into the jug as well, this works all almost all bugs, beetles, slugs, vine borer and squash bugs too. This has been very effective in controlling most bugs in my garden!
Hi, Jag. Sorry, I didn't get the name of a substance that you sprinkle on the leaves. Please, could you write that name once again
Diatomaceous Earth
@DaisyCreekFarms Thanks Jag,appreciate your help
With any pest control the object is not to get every pest, rather to reduce the number of them. What a simple and easy way to control them.
Amazing
Thank you !
Great news! Thanks for sharing!
Too simple to be true. Unfortunately (?) we will be trying such once squash bug "season" begins. Thank you for the great idea!
Those buggers are such a scourge. We used to do the best we could by picking them and the eggs off, using DE for the nymphs, and planting a trap crop. Towards the end of the season, we would pull up all the squash and burn the plants, along with the trap plants. In the Ozarks where we lived, they didn't seem to bother winter squash much. If I wasn't sick of squash at the end of the season, we would plant some more late-summer squash and zucchini. The chickens didn't seem to like them though.
😆 this is great. Do you notice that after a week of this the squash bug population is far less the following weeks?
Way less, reduce the population by 80 t o90% every time you go with he vacuum
Do you have a solution for aphids on my white acre peas? Neem does not work
I've found spraying with water mixed with a couple tablespoons of dawn worked after a couple of spray downs every 2-3 days. I've been watching since for more & so far, after about a month, I haven't seen more yet. They did alot off damage to my cukes though, before I could do this, due to continuous rain.
I have tried this solution and it only works. If you don't have very many period once they lay eggs in the soil, the Battle has Begun! Eggs in the soil the battle has begun!
Ingenius! I'm still giggling.
That's genius
I love this idea, Jag! The problem is my pumpkins are so big and sprawling that I can’t get in and around them. Not sure how to do it with that situation.
Me too. I had a bunch of pumpkins come up volunteer from my compost pile, and I let them go. I have thousands and thousands of squash bugs everywhere. They killed all my beautiful butternut squash too. I’m not sure I will grow squash anymore.
I just pulled my plant😊
I like your solution to use the vacuum. I tried soap. I have to keep going back to soak them. You spent money on the vacuum, but as Paul Kersey said in "Death Wish IV" when his good friend saw him making his own bullets to combat neighborhood thugs, "Nothing is too good for our friends."
This is also a great trick to catch spiders on the ceiling :)
Why don’t you pick up squash and vacuum under it?? How often do you vacuum like daily and for how long?
I do pickup the squash and vacuum under it too, I do this once a week.
@@DaisyCreekFarms War of the Worlds remake with Tom Cruise… the aliens vacuumed up people and put them in a container too… lol.
Brilliant❤
Good video. Thanks
You're recommending vacuuming a 20-acre farm?
We grow Pumpkins and Squash in 1/2 Acre, rest is Fruits and Berries. Even in 1/2 acre, the squash bugs gather on just 4 to 5 plants. They like to concentrate on chosen plants, so it's very easy to get rid of them with vacuum even on acreage.