Mom used to make me a little Amish cream pie when she was baking other pies. So easy to make and beyond delicious! Her grandparents settled in PA in Amish country in the mid 1800's so I'm thinking that's where the recipe came from.

One year I planted basil pretty closely together around the whole raised beds of my tomatoes. No tomato worms but the basil was covered in Japanese beetles but not one on my tomatoes. I will be planting tons of marigolds and basil around the tomatoes and also the squash. I had given up on squash but now I'll give it another go.

I have marigolds all around the perimeter of my whole garden and basil on each end. I still have squash bugs. It does not work

Enjoyed the video sir. I just watched a video on those beds, or what I think you have. Consider painting them if you live in the South 'cause the metal will get ultra hot in the sun and it will affect the perimeter of the bed's soil too. Anyway, look forward to the next one.

It's good to hear from you again I always enjoy your videos

Hi friend! We only have option of a container garden. Can I put the marigolds right next to the squash plants?

The squash bugs got use this year but now I know. Thank you.

I just found several squash bugs and eggs. Probably get some marigolds tomorrow

DON'T squish the bugs in the garden!!! They release a pheromone that actually attracts more. Pick and drop into soapy water. Use duct tape wrapped around your fingers to remove the eggs easily. Apply nematodes in spring that eat the larvae in the soil and use BT spray that kills any eggs you may have missed that hatch. Encourage birds into your garden. Chickens if you have em are the best!

I have marigolds in the Garden, but they need to be closer.

This makes sense! I have two butternut squash beds. One has a whole bunch of volunteer marigolds growing all over the bed. The other has no marigolds. I noticed squash bugs are only in the bed with no marigolds. Yup...time to move some marigolds to the other bed. Thank you

Squash plants that are under stress produce a scent that attracts squash bugs. Trim yellow leaves back to limit the smell.

No such thing as lazy gardening. Every bit of it is work

You can see squash bug eggs underneath the leaves without having to crawl around and turning them over if you look for a shadow from above on a sunny day. The leaves are transparent enough to see a mass of eggs from above if they lay them in a tight cluster. I like to look early and late in the day to catch the east and west sun from both angles on the leaves. Then I lift the leaf and pull them off with masking tape wrapped around my finger and throw the tape in a sealed jar so they can’t hatch and survive. You could probably use a bright flashlight and do the same on a cloudy day. Turning all those leaves over is time consuming.

Thank you for the info. I usually plant marigolds around my tomatoes but now I will put them around the zucchini also.

Why the boxes?

Dr. Bronners soap is best as it is biodegradable! It dose work on those nasty bugs!

I totally agree. I tried it and it didn’t work. I won’t bother again

Groundhogs are HORRIBLE

Very interesting. I never knew about this method.

I have gone so far as to inject BT into the squash vines. My worst enemies are Hornworms and Squash Vine borers. I do have some issues with blister beetles sometimes.

I always dead head my marigolds and reseed from the prior year’s flowers. The problem is they bloom too late to deter the squash bugs. Guess I’m going to have to pay out and by some plants …

I think the marigold act in the same manner that dill, cilantro and some other herbs work. They attract parasitic wasps and flys that lay their larva in the squash bugs and eat them from the inside out.

Pap gave us a shotgun, and put a bounty on them.

I am so thankful for the helpful hands and knowledge I greatly appreciate it.😊

Won't soapy water hurt the good bugs too?

I am trying something new. I spray the adults and nymphs with soapy water as usual but now I also turn over every leaf I can find and dab some B-7000 super glue on every cluster I can find. So far they can’t seem to hatch. It doesn’t seem to destroy the leaves as much. I hate smushing eggs. I’m anxious to see how this turns out.

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Marigolds are the easiest seeds to save and grow in cell trays. Just be sure to start the the proper phermones. French is one of them.

Ok I'm not an expert as a matter of fact I'm only on year 3. might be just lucky but I'll share what I feel is reasons I feel I'm having issues. I have a basil or marigold plant at the base of nearly every tomato & squash plant. I've only found 1 horn worm in 3 years. I rarely get vine bores or squash bugs. I also keep all my plants pruned at the bottom to allow air flow and I keep a tidy garden. No rotting leaves. I use the foil wrap at the base of all my squash plants too. I've also read not to mulch near the squash stems because it's an invite for them. I mulch my tomato's only. Usually the soil is shaded under my squash plants anyway so I don't worry about it. My first season I had squash bugs and a couple vine bores. That's before I used marigolds and basil plants. However I sprinkled milkyspore around the soil in the spring where those plants were. Just an experiment. Maybe it helped.

In my very limited experience, I've found that as long as check the underside of the leaves regularly, scrape off any eggs with my thumbnail or knock off any babies that have already hatched (I think they have trouble finding their way back onto the plant and are vulnerable to predation), the plants survive well enough. But there is definitely something to be said about growing in a mixed planting, and I think next year I will try to interplant my squash with marigolds and basil thanks to this video!

Those are African marigolds…they are tall.

I believe I have a skunk eating my corn plants. Barely s foot high. I started smelling the skunk 3 nights ago and that's when I found only my corn chewed and dug up the roots.

New subscriber here. I like the clear way that you explain things. Keep up the great work, mister.

I would have to use a chicken wire fence with electric on top. My cat loves being in the garden and she never bothers anything in it. I also have a small dog that is the same. I did enjoy your video.

7 dust quit working. I think the government made the company take the good chemicals that actually worked out of the ingredients because some novice gardeners were poisoning all of the pollinators unintentionally.

Marigolds never helped my squash.

This gentleman sounds like Maxx Bear Jr. Very pleasant.

Planted marigolds around my plants for two years and still had squash bugs

Thank you!

You can pickle just about anything right? I mean, so lemon cucumbers are yellow and are round. So, they may be a bit big for your jar whole depending on the size. But spears or slices ..... also, just for the extra knowledge. Those are what I suggest to folks with cucumber tummy trouble. They are a bit easier for some folks.

Thanks for making this content I enjoy your videos I'm trying to plant in clay having some issues too so far about to buy a bunch of buckets and try that out

I was thinking this might be an issue.

I just found this video and i'm going to try the marigolds this year. I watched another video that claims radishes next to the squash plant helps. I'm going with both.I havent had a good blue hubbard squash in years so i'm over due. Thanks for the video.

They do smell a little skunky but I like how long the blooms last and the color is vibrant I've added a bunch in my garden this year I hear you have to watch them cause they spread fast

Awesome, I was just going to ask you to keep us updated.

I'm glad you are having a warm spring we're in Northern Indiana and it still cold and wet going back and forth from spring the early winter it's 41° today.

Good to see you my friend

I’ve also seen that radishes can help deter squash bugs - any experience on whether that works too?

You had me at "Boy I hate squash bugs"