It's hard to say for certain, of course, but it's possible that your plants are simply pooped. If you are not ready to give up, you might give them a drench of fish emulsion (diluted with water). This will give them a fast shot of mild nitrogen, which should make the leaves green up. If the foliage is healthy, the blooms should begin to set fruit again. If they don't after a couple of weeks, I would pull them and replant, working some blood meal into the soil. They take less than 60 days to bear fruit from the day you plant the seed. I pulled my pooped plants last week and replanted...

I planted mine early in April and noticed that two of them are dead. So far I'm not impressed since they didn't produce more than one or two squash per bush.

I wonder if we just got bad seeds. I'll replanted for the fall but I don't have high hopes.

That's odd. When I lived down in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas, Tatume was the only squash that lived all summer. It seemed completely resistant to insect pests and diseases through extremely long, hot, and humid summers. The only problem with it was the plants were huge and one hill produced enough fruit to feed several large families.

Tom

OH WOW I feel so stupid and relief at the same time,let me explain I just discovered that my plant got so huge that grew its way under the deck and there I found 2 squash that got never picked so they are on the hard side now "winter squash" so problem solve.My plants are monsters vines wondering why shebear mention a bush plant?,and it it pretty resistant to the ugly SVB and tastier than black beuty zucc.,Thakns any ways you guys.I do have other ? I started with 4 plants each black beuty and yellow straigh neck now I'm down to 1 of each due to SVB this morning I inspect them and they got my yellow straight neck it is hurful 'cause if full of female flowers,is there any way to protect them or to save the plant I will say is on stage 1 and they seem to atack the lower part of the plant.

Itzybitzy, my plants vined too but they didn't get very big and were definitely a favorite of the squash bugs. I planted 3 vines and got a different color squash on each one. Sad to say I got these seeds from Baker's Creek.

I also had no luck with chayote this year but I'll try both again next year.

It sounds like an off type seed. Tatume is a round dark green squash. I think I got my original start of seed from a Lone Star Seed Company rack at a feed store down in Hidalgo Co., TX. I don't grow it anymore.

Same here shebear I got them from Baker's Creek and as tmlgn saids it may have been misslabel or something 'cause wen the fruit is young is pale green then as it mature turns darker green,very tender and yummy.the one survivor is so far about 8-10 feet long in 4 different directions and you get fruit on the growing tip basically so can't prune it.I have a very small garden and it looks impresive,it makes me feel like an expert.lol.