Found this today, thought I'd share... from http://www.yardener.com/PreventingSquashVineBorer.html the link is below. Preventing Squash Vine Borer Problems If you are trying to minimize the impact of the borers in your yard you can try a fall crop. Plant squash by seed in July so when the plants are up the adult borer is gone from the area. Cook The Suckers To significantly reduce your garden's squash vine borer population over a 2- to 3-year period, use the crop cleanup trick. Pull up the crop vulnerable to squash vine borer as soon as they finish bearing and put the plant or the vines into a large plastic bag, preferably a big clear one if you can find such a bag. It is important that you don't wait till the very last squash or cucumber has been picked. Pull the plants when the main harvest is over and the plants still have a population of squash vine borers. After tying the bag, leave it in direct sun for a week or so. Nothing will survive that treatment, and a major source of next year's squash vine borer population will have been destroyed. I usu. just send the entire plant to the dump. I guess if you could burn it, that would insure their demise, eh? Attract predators to your yard -Flycatchers, barn swallows, downy woodpeckers, sparrows, blackbirds, grackles, and phoebes are some of the common birds that relish eating squash vine borers and the mother moths. Moles and toads will also go after borers. Wasp parasites kill the larvae and lacewings, spiders and ants eat the eggs. I have no idea if any of these actually work. Good Luck, Gumby_CT Here is a link that might be useful: Preventing Squash Vine Borer Problems

Hazel, You can see an image of a squash vine borer moth at the page I've linked below. Note that this page is from the Univ of MN and they only have one generation of SVBs per year. We have multiple generations here in OK. SVBs You may or may not have trouble with SVBs. Much depends on how many gardeners within a half-mile or mile of you are growing pumpkins and squash. The SVBs didn't find us until we had been here for 7 or 8 years, so I was able to grow dozens of varieties of squash and pumpkins per year (those were the good old days!) before they found us. I tried to grow all I could and to enjoy them while it lasted because I knew the SVBs would find us eventually. Nowadays I only grow C. moschata varieties for the most part, though often I'll grow yellow crookneck squash very early in spring before the SVBs arrive. Sometimes I'll grow some of the C. argyrosperma because they are fairly tolerant of SVB damage, but not as resistant to SVB damage as C. moschata varieties are. I haven't planted any of my C. moschatas yet, but will soon. I usually plant them in May once the ground is good and warm and staying at or above 70 degrees. I don't know if you could interplant any C. moschatas with the onions as the C. moschata will sprout and grow quickly and will overrun the onion bed. It might be better to wait until the onions all have been harvested. Onions do not like plant competition. Dawn

Your space already looks really nice! Couple of suggestions: Put a console under the TV. Something narrow to ground it so it isn't floating / looming on the wall. Replace the chair with one or two that have a style more consistent with the contemporary sofa. Put another console table behind the sofa so that you're not looking at the back of the sofa. A larger area rug that can go under the sectional and under the chair (or chairs if you do two) would probably bring the space together better. Though I do really like the cowhide rug you have.

That's metal edging w rebar! It's keeping stone back. the only maintenance is once a year I go around the perimeter with my sledgehammer pounding it into the ground a little bit. I love this edging it's very durable. probably 30 years old I wish I could find it somewhere again I would use it around my beds where I do have mulch.. I really wasn't complaining about the weeds that's no issue it's just I noticed that the space between the brick probably should be filled with something and I wasn't sure if sand is what to use or if they make something special?