Thank you! Great information for me. I’m about to plant squash and had a difficult time deciding between rampicante or Tatume, as I only have room for one vine. I was going for rampicante only for the green immature fruits, but you changed my mind! I’ll be planting Tatume today. Best of luck for us all in 2023. 2022 was a terrible summer garden, but my fall garden was spectacular here in dry hot western Texas.
Us southern gardeners REALLY got hit hard last year 😔 It makes me so happy to see so many resilient gardeners ready to bounce back for the new year! Last year was one of the hardest on me, I wasn't chomping at the bit to start seeds this year, either. I'm so glad to have helped you make the decision, but if there's any way to incorporate both... I very highly recommend both! But Tatume definitely takes the cake if I have to choose. Just be sure to grill it at least once, it's absolutely amazing! 🔥 Happy planting and thank you for dropping in!
I was just thinking the other day that you hadnt put up any videos lately, so I was happy to see this pop up! I did new varieties to me for squash last year too! Minnesota here so I have at max 100 days from planting seed to get what I need. My favs were dostal cucumber squash which I planted for a dual crop. Picked early it is a summer squash and delicious. Leave it to fully ripen to a winter squash and it too was my total favorite! Sweet and kept its chunk shape when roasted! Another of my likes was Silver bell which is a good replacement for sugar pumpkins since they dont grow fast enough here for me. THe silver bell was sweet but a bit dry and fantastic for pies and breads! I also grew sibley which got huge and were not a fav of mine so I am not sure what I am going to do with the 20 bags in the freezer and the other 8 20 lb squash in the basement haha! The last one I tried was a new delicata I think it was honeyboat, was very good, sweet and grew well. All did well, grew well and were great until the borers finally found them the end of aug. At that point I only have a few weeks left till frost so I didnt fight them after the first attempt at saving my harvest. I think you would like the Dostal variety since is is a dual variety. THanks so much for sharing your experiments! Glad to see you back!
I'm so happy to see your familiar face around here! It was definitely a long break, but sometimes we all need them 🥰 such a rough year in general! Here's to a much better 2023! I actually haven't heard of those varieties 🤔 I'm going to keep an eye out for the Dostal Cucumber Squash when I order later this year, because if you're raving about it then it's a must try in my opinion! I will say, if I had that much unwanted squash... I'd be chucking it into my chicken pen and watching them obliterate it 😂 Or to the goats! No produce lasts long around here... Especially hidden monster cucumbers, those get hurled into the air so that they shatter, and the chickens come flying to pick out the seeds! I probably feed the critters just as much as I save... They absolutely love it. If the borers left us alone that long, I likely wouldn't bother either... I feel like that's the sacrifice we've made for a longer season 😆 Are you growing anything new this year? I've purchased a lot of starts myself- and have yet to complete the garden for planting. Here's to hoping I get it done by May 1st 🤞 Thank you for swinging by!
Thank you for posting. I really struggle with vine borers in my area and I found your approaches to be the most successful. Really appreciate these experiments with different varieties cuz it can be hard for me to keep up with the injections.
Thank you so much for following along! Experimenting keeps things fun in the garden, and I'm so glad others find it useful! I didn't do any injecting last year, and that was quite liberating. The entire point of the experiment was not to touch my squash with BT at all- and it was quite the success! This year, I'm going to use a square of insect netting laid over the susceptible squash plot, and I'm going to let each plant start flowering with females before I uncover them, and weigh the harvest 3x a week to see how much food they produce before borers wipe them out; simultaneously starting another batch under cover in succession. I figure the time saved from injecting could get a new plot tilled- but of course, some people have more limited space or don't have a tiller on hand, which makes the injection method so valuable. Thank you for dropping by and happy planting! ☺️
Butternut squash do great against the vine borer especially the smaller mini varieties. The miniature melons like cantelopes and watermelons do great, too. The vines are narrow in these varieties. They choose not to lay their eggs on these. 😊
I was really hoping the mini butternut would do well, but it just slowly suffered along all season- will be trying again though! It was just a bad growing season last year 😞 Thankfully we don't have any boring insects with our melons- I think I'd lose my mind if I had to fight for those too! Thank you for dropping in 😁
THANKYOU SO MUCH FOR DOING YOUR OWN COMPARISON! I have grown the trombocino the last several years. They typically produce many fruits but I’m thinking I need to do trap crops and then separate have the trombocino to be even more productive
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Thank you! Great information for me. I’m about to plant squash and had a difficult time deciding between rampicante or Tatume, as I only have room for one vine. I was going for rampicante only for the green immature fruits, but you changed my mind! I’ll be planting Tatume today. Best of luck for us all in 2023. 2022 was a terrible summer garden, but my fall garden was spectacular here in dry hot western Texas.
Us southern gardeners REALLY got hit hard last year 😔 It makes me so happy to see so many resilient gardeners ready to bounce back for the new year! Last year was one of the hardest on me, I wasn't chomping at the bit to start seeds this year, either. I'm so glad to have helped you make the decision, but if there's any way to incorporate both... I very highly recommend both! But Tatume definitely takes the cake if I have to choose. Just be sure to grill it at least once, it's absolutely amazing! 🔥 Happy planting and thank you for dropping in!
I was just thinking the other day that you hadnt put up any videos lately, so I was happy to see this pop up! I did new varieties to me for squash last year too! Minnesota here so I have at max 100 days from planting seed to get what I need. My favs were dostal cucumber squash which I planted for a dual crop. Picked early it is a summer squash and delicious. Leave it to fully ripen to a winter squash and it too was my total favorite! Sweet and kept its chunk shape when roasted! Another of my likes was Silver bell which is a good replacement for sugar pumpkins since they dont grow fast enough here for me. THe silver bell was sweet but a bit dry and fantastic for pies and breads! I also grew sibley which got huge and were not a fav of mine so I am not sure what I am going to do with the 20 bags in the freezer and the other 8 20 lb squash in the basement haha! The last one I tried was a new delicata I think it was honeyboat, was very good, sweet and grew well. All did well, grew well and were great until the borers finally found them the end of aug. At that point I only have a few weeks left till frost so I didnt fight them after the first attempt at saving my harvest. I think you would like the Dostal variety since is is a dual variety. THanks so much for sharing your experiments! Glad to see you back!
I'm so happy to see your familiar face around here! It was definitely a long break, but sometimes we all need them 🥰 such a rough year in general! Here's to a much better 2023! I actually haven't heard of those varieties 🤔 I'm going to keep an eye out for the Dostal Cucumber Squash when I order later this year, because if you're raving about it then it's a must try in my opinion! I will say, if I had that much unwanted squash... I'd be chucking it into my chicken pen and watching them obliterate it 😂 Or to the goats! No produce lasts long around here... Especially hidden monster cucumbers, those get hurled into the air so that they shatter, and the chickens come flying to pick out the seeds! I probably feed the critters just as much as I save... They absolutely love it. If the borers left us alone that long, I likely wouldn't bother either... I feel like that's the sacrifice we've made for a longer season 😆 Are you growing anything new this year? I've purchased a lot of starts myself- and have yet to complete the garden for planting. Here's to hoping I get it done by May 1st 🤞 Thank you for swinging by!
Thank you for posting. I really struggle with vine borers in my area and I found your approaches to be the most successful. Really appreciate these experiments with different varieties cuz it can be hard for me to keep up with the injections.
Thank you so much for following along! Experimenting keeps things fun in the garden, and I'm so glad others find it useful! I didn't do any injecting last year, and that was quite liberating. The entire point of the experiment was not to touch my squash with BT at all- and it was quite the success! This year, I'm going to use a square of insect netting laid over the susceptible squash plot, and I'm going to let each plant start flowering with females before I uncover them, and weigh the harvest 3x a week to see how much food they produce before borers wipe them out; simultaneously starting another batch under cover in succession. I figure the time saved from injecting could get a new plot tilled- but of course, some people have more limited space or don't have a tiller on hand, which makes the injection method so valuable. Thank you for dropping by and happy planting! ☺️
Butternut squash do great against the vine borer especially the smaller mini varieties. The miniature melons like cantelopes and watermelons do great, too. The vines are narrow in these varieties. They choose not to lay their eggs on these. 😊
I was really hoping the mini butternut would do well, but it just slowly suffered along all season- will be trying again though! It was just a bad growing season last year 😞 Thankfully we don't have any boring insects with our melons- I think I'd lose my mind if I had to fight for those too! Thank you for dropping in 😁
THANKYOU SO MUCH FOR DOING YOUR OWN COMPARISON! I have grown the trombocino the last several years.
They typically produce many fruits but I’m thinking I need to do trap crops and then separate have the trombocino to be even more productive
Thanks! Borers are one of my biggest enemies!
They're absolutely AWFUL! Happy planting! Sending good vibes for an excellent growing season 😊 Thank you for visiting!
Better luck this year.
Fingers crossed! 🤞 Thank you for stopping by!