probably. Good luck. I've had more success and more damage here than I've had elsewhere.

Hiya tprox. Welcome to the group and gardening in Oklahoma.

Thanks and I have decided OK gardening is not for the faint of heart!! :)

Hi tprox,

Welcome to the Oklahoma Forum.

Gardening here is not for the faint of heart! The good thing, though, is that once a person has gardened here, they can garden anywhere.

Floating row cover is available from many, many online sources. You just have to do some googling to find the brand, weight and size you want. Comparison shopping for row cover can be time-consuming because it comes in many weights (including a lightweight one that offers insect protection but no frost/freeze protection, and various weights than can offer from 2 to 10 or more degrees of frost/freeze protection). It also comes in various widths and lengths, though some suppliers offer it in a handful of standard widths and will cut it to the specific length you desire. Those usually sell it at a set price per running foot or running inch for each width.

The first row covers I purchased were pre-cut Reemay sold in a 6' wide by 50' length piece. It was cut and packaged at a local TX nursery where I shopped, which folded it and sold it in flat cellophane packaging. They sold the exact same row cover to customers that they used themselves.

While 6' sounds wide, it isn't wide enough for my raised beds once you add in plant height and only is useful when seedlings are freshly emerged from the soil and are not very tall yet.

Nowadays I like to purchase it in rolls that are 10 or 12' wide and cut it to length to suit myself. I usually purchase 250' rolls, which last me for years. On the lighter weight Agri-bon 15, the last time I purchased a big roll of it (maybe 6 or 7 years ago), I found the best price + shipping at FarmTek. I don't remember what widths they carry, but the last time I bought some, they were selling it in various weights by the running foot.

For the heavier weights, which I use more than I use the lighter weights, (I am in a low-lying creek hollow in the already low-lying Red River Valley and subject to frequent early and late frosts), the last three rolls I have purchased were from an Ag Supply company called Agricultural Solutions. They ship quickly (great when you need more row cover for a big late freeze that is expected after you already have an entire garden of knee-high warm-season plants) and had the specific very heavyweight frost blankets in the width I wanted. I was buying big rolls 10' x 250'. For smaller sizes, I haven't compared their prices to other companies to see if they are price-competitive with lighter weight fabric or smaller sizes. The brand I was buying from them is Dewitt.

Many online seed companies and garden supply companies sell various brands, weights and sizes so you'll just have to search for whatever it is you want. Some of the companies that I know carry row covers include Johnny's Selected Seeds, Territorial Seed, Bountiful Gardens and Peaceful Valley Farm Supply. I imagine pretty much any online garden retailer that sells seeds or garden supplies would have it though.

I have had squash bugs migrate to other plants in the cucurbit family like cucumbers, Armenian cukes, gourds, musk melons, true cantaloupes and occasionally (but rarely) watermelon plants. I don't think I have seen them bother much of anything else. They rarely do much damage in my garden to anything other than C. pepo and C. maxima. Sometimes they damage C. argyrosperma. Mostly I work around them (and the more damaging squash vine borers) by growing C. Moschata type squash, including avocado squash, and only planting yellow squash and zucchini very very early so I can harvest and freeze a ton of it before the pests show up.

Dawn

Welcome tprox!!! I think you will enjoy the forum. I purchase crop covers from FarmTek and several other items i use. I don't grow veggies, but what they say here on the forum is yes squash bugs will migrate to other plants.

Again, welcome