[mlizzy]

Thank you very much. I will try this. Do you spray on the top and/or bottom of the leaves, and do you spray on the ground too?

I'm determined to keep my squash healthy. I've got marigolds, radishes, borage, and nasturtium planted around the squash plants and elsewhere in the garden too. I also am using [as you mentioned] food grade diatomaceous earth on the leaves and a little on the ground too.

Thanks again!!

[greeneyes]

Yes, I spray the tops and bottoms. The best thing for the ground as well as your plants, is to make sure you have good soil with nutrients.

Healthy plants don’t happen with out great soil-Compost, nutrients, and roatation planting help to achieve this.

Reading my first organic gardening book, I remember the author talking about when he first started out gardening. He noticed that the plants that were in an overlap area were under performers. This made him a believer in rotation planting.

Hubby has used burning, solarization under black plastic, and fungicides on one of his gardens, but so far, I have not had to do anything drastic with mine.