No idea, but Congrats :-) I feel the happiness from here :-)

thats awesome, I know what that feels like!!!! I have so much zucchini from one plant that I have run out of recipes!

Happy days, mgpaquin

I try not to introduce harmfull chemicals to soil as much as I can but then
I am not a purist in organic gardening either.
Having said that, I have tried to combat earwigs, snails, slug, broccoli worms, flea beetles.
I was fed up with that all, so yesterday I bought an ORTHO multi killer,that is claimed
to kill slugs, snails, cut worms, and earwigs among others.

Maybe you should look into this product too. Probably it will kill vine borers as well.

Good luck to all.

cyrus

You just got ahead of them, The moths are arriving here now. They are pretty good flyers so while you can cut down on the numbers by preventing them from overwintering, new ones will fly in from somewhere.

Do you cut the leaves back? Maybe if you trimmed them, the foliage couldn't hide the blooms the squash vine borer are after. The foliage from corn hides them and deters the bugs for that reason only.

I've got a few yellow straight neck squash now growing yellow about an inch or two long, waiting for an attack now. I planted garlic seeds that didn't grow, accept one near them, planted nasturtiums in their rows too and most grew, plus they are next to a sea of marigolds that haven't been transplanted yet to their spot.

I'm trying the organic first. I'll go for the bug killers next year if this doesn't work. Mine died for so many reasons last year, I couldn't guess. I got some, but not a great load like others get.

Good luck. Maybe get a nice lizard or two? I'd like that.

I read that you can inject BT in the stems where the borers bore. Not sure how good that works but sounds like a good idea.
Scarletdaisies-garlic seeds? I've never heard of them. Please, do tell.