SVB? The squash bug? I actually had trouble last year, but the year before (my first year with the garden) was fine. If anyone has suggestions on preventative for this, I'd love to hear it.

I hate SVBS! I'm going to try this this year (from this website: http://www.uky.edu/Ag/Entomology/entfacts/veg/ef314.htm)

Home gardeners may have some success with deworming the vines. Monitor plants weekly from mid-June through August for initial signs of the borer's frass at entrance holes in the stems. At the first signs of the sawdust-like frass, vines are slit lengthwise near where the damage is found and the borers removed. The stems should be immediately covered with earth. Sanitation is also important. After harvest is complete, vines should be removed from the garden and composted to prevent the remaining borers from completing larval development. Burying a few nodes along each vine will encourage rooting at these nodes. This will lessen the impact if squash vine borers girdle the base of the vine.

Thanks for that info on the squash vine borrers. I have some in my vines. They were not in the main stem, so I cut of the area they were present, but that sort of made me afraid, leaving the open wound. The vines still looked good today. Tomorrow AM I'm going out and putting a little earth around the stem. VERY ANNOYING down here. At home we would have so much squash we didn't know what to do with it all. Here SVB seem to get them all..

GGG