{"id":2305,"date":"2007-10-23T15:19:07","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T21:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=2305"},"modified":"2017-07-19T19:16:42","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T00:16:42","slug":"bored-squash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/garden-critters\/bored-squash\/","title":{"rendered":"Bored Squash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was so excited when the weather cooled down below 60 at night a couple of weeks ago and the summer squash began flowering. Every day I&#8217;d check to see if any squash were forming. I&#8217;d chosen an heirloom squash (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.botanicalinterests.com\/search_results_detail.php?seedtype=V&#038;seedid=510\">Early Prolific Straightneck<\/a>) from Botanical Interest which is supposed to be tasty both quite small as baby vegetables and larger. AJM makes a great ratatouille and we also like summer squash lightly steamed.<\/p>\n<p>Then the other day, I noticed that some of the plants look like they had &#8220;wilted&#8221; on the upper leaves.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/SquashBorer2.jpg\" alt=\"squash borer damage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since the entire plant hadn&#8217;t wilted, I suspected some nasty critter. I noticed one squash was all squishy. When I picked another to examine it, I saw some telltale holes.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/SquashBorer3.jpg\" alt=\"squash borer damage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dissecting the deceased revealed the extent of the problem.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/SquashBorer4.jpg\" alt=\"squash borer damage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Plants are falling right and left. Every squash I&#8217;ve picked is infested. Squash vine borers have burrowed into the stem, the leaves, and the fruit. Not only are the plants infested with the typical white bodied, brown headed squash vine borers, but this bright green caterpillar is also horning in at the party.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/SquashBorer5.jpg\" alt=\"squash borer damage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My attempts to eat fresh from the garden is stymied once again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/SquashBorer1.jpg\" alt=\"squash borer damage\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5519,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions\/5519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}