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Lombard, IL

A friend who lives across town was telling me that she has always had a hard time with squash in general because she has a "soil disease" where around July the root hairs get clogged and can no longer take in water so the plant wilts and dies. Does anyone know what she is talking about? Is she looney?

5/30/2007 12:53:33 PM

southwest MO

Hang tough Pumpkin mom, and keep reading here on BP.com. Things will become clearer.

5/30/2007 1:35:42 PM

Midwest

sounds like SVB to me...CK

5/30/2007 1:39:05 PM

Pataskala,OH

svb

5/30/2007 3:09:01 PM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

Fusarium or Phytophthora.

Do NOT use any of her tools. Don't let her walk in your poatch. Don't walk in her patch. If you do, spray your shoes with a 10% bleach solution or Lysol aerosol before entering your own patch again.

5/30/2007 7:33:48 PM

South Bloomfield, Ohio

Steve...would fusarium or phytophthora cause a foaming condition around the stump? Maybe she could narrow it down.

5/30/2007 8:44:33 PM

Lombard, IL

I thought it sounded like SVB too. But she said she had this problem in addition to vine borers. Maybe she was thinking the second generation of SVB was her soil disease. Don't worry, I don't go into her garden. We just talk shop now and then when we see each other at our childrens' school since she has been gardening for a while and I am new at the game.

5/30/2007 9:54:20 PM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

Foaming could very well be Fusarium or another disease called "sclerotinia white mold". Both are bad mojo.

Insect don't cause "foaming". They can spread diseases that cuase foaming however.

5/31/2007 1:00:46 AM