[2Jedismom]

I beg your pardon! I'll have you know we have NO bugs in our garden. Well, a few...but they don't do any damage...well, not too much...we have a few aphids.

I keep my eyes open for squash vine borer...but so far, none! I don't know why...last year they decimated us.

Could it be the chickens that are wandering amongst the squash?

Shrugs

And did you know that cutworms live just under the surface of the soil and only come out at night? If you wander around out there with a flashlight, you can see them and easily pick them off. I've spent many a romantic evening in the garden with my hubby...squashing cutworms!

;-)

[HairOfTheDog]

I've spent many a romantic evening in the garden with my hubby...squashing cutworms!

Snif.... that is just beautiful...

[Ramius]

Okey dokey. :-)

Better living through chemistry... that's my motto.

As an aside... I happen to work for a company that has done a great deal of research in various environmental and food issues up to and including the latest mess on endocrine disruptors. The long and short of it is that the dosage of chemicals from pesticides over a lifetime is a risk so small as to not even be on the radar. The risk from "natural" toxins in the "natural" pests that inhabit foods is actually about the same or higher.

I'm not saying that organic is somehow wrong. It's fine, but it carries statistically similar risks to any other form of agriculture.

The real winner in agriculture science is genetic engineering. It has gotten a completely mistaken rap. These are foods that need orders of magnitude lower levels of pesticide to remain pest-free and yet still yield high crop levels per-acre. It is an absolute win-win that is completely misunderstood by the popular press.

[RMDupree]

I've spent many a romantic evening in the garden with my hubby...squashing cutworms!

Are cutworms the same as night crawlers? Earthworms?