You can take a bottle sprayer filled with water and add some Dawn dish soap after the water. Enough so you can see the pale blue. In the past I have had hundreds so I use a 1 1/2 gal. pressure sprayer with about 2T Dawn. Mix it don't shake it. You don't want it like your doing dishes. Adjust sprayer between mist and stream and spray directly on the squash bugs. The soap coats their exoskeleton and causes them to suffocate. Works very well but has to be applied directly to bug. The eggs unfortunately must still be removed by hand. Duct tape works well for this. At the end of season I leave one vine with a sacrificial pumpkin or squash to attract all the bugs left. Every evening I will go out to spray them until they quit coming. If your infested you should burn all vines at the end of season, the bugs overwinter in vegetation. I also tilled several times in the fall when a hard frost was predicted. Brings up the ones in the soil and hopefully they are killed by the frost.

its normal, you can grow 2 on seperate vines. but the pumpkin might abort one if she doesnt want it.

My husband just left for his interview. He looked so handsome I told him they couldn't resist hiring him just based on his looks. :-) He's a sweetie and I love praising him. We've been married for almost 12 years and it's been the best years of my life, outside of my two children, of course. I was in a bad marriage for 25 years and after four years of being single, I met Bob. He's retired Navy and is everything I could ask for in a husband. I NEVER believed I could find such a precious man. God does answer prayer! I'll let everyone know how his interview went. Yes, TX is flat in most areas. The traffic can be bad if you don't know how to take the short cuts. I've lived here all my life so I know how to maneuver around quite nicely. The bluebonnets are pretty in the spring. The sides of the freeways look as though someone had a huge bag of seed and just slung in every direction. Beautiful blues...really gorgeous. You will often see people, with small children, sitting in the flowers taking pictures. One of our local country radio stations plays a song during this time called the "Bluebonnet Squat." It's hilarious! I guess my two addictions are fabric and dishes. I am a QVC regular. I sometimes have it on all day just watching and thinking of reasons why I have to buy everything I want. I have bought many serving pieces and speciality/cutsie dishes. I can't help myself. I love to entertain and have all the cool dishes, trays, etc. I have a small family, but I tend to go all out on holidays and birthdays. I recently bought some pretty, Christmas red bakeware from Rachael Ray. Did I need them? Of course not. But they were red and I thought how pretty lasagna would look baked in it. I have some cute Santa and snowman mugs on hold. I thought they would be fun drinking hot chocolate from. Our winters aren't really very cold here, but hot chocolate does work when the temps drop below freezing. Betty, sorry to hear about your husband's accident. I hope he has recovered well. I do understand how it makes one feel to know others are praying during difficult times. It does give encouragement to keep hanging on. I too, many times, just take one step a time. The last couple of weeks it's been taking one hour at a time, but regardless of DH's job situation, we are blessed and I have no complaints! .....other than I need a bigger kitchen for my dishes! lol Once I learn how to post pictures, I'll put some up. I have a cute pix or our two dachshunds. We adopted them last April and are they a lot of fun. We had one dachshund for 10 years and lost her. We waited a few months before we even considered getting another pet. I found them on an adoption website and fell in love. They are masters of the house now. I lost control the first week we had them. :) Punk, I would love to hear about your business, too. It must be good to be your own boss. Jaybird....when I was signing up for this forum, I tried to use 'jaybird' as a log in name. My nickname is "J-Bird." A dear friend's husband called me that over 25 years ago and it stuck. That is how I'm known now in their family. My immediate family call me JuJu. My daddy's mother called me that when I was little and it stuck. My daughter says she wants her baby to call me Grandma JuJu. I used to baby sit for a girl with three boys and they called me that as they weren't close to their grandmother. They are in high school now and they still think of me as that. I love it! Ok, enough of me. I must find something for dinner. I hope it will be a celebration dinner of a new job. I think a pan of brownies are in order. Judy

lots of of info out ther and it still is not clear to me what you really want. Irespective of variety which most folks have a favorite and can genrate hours of discussion, winter squash can be be categorized into groups. Butternut types are the most popular and most versatile. They have resistance to SVB which is of paramount importance in some areas. Pumpkins are most popular for decorations, but some types are widely used for pies. ( not Libby's pumpkin pie filling is made from a butternut type not a pumpkin) Acorns are popular as a personal size baking squash, Delicata types are less popular but used for the same purpose. Hubbard types come in all sizes and noted for thier keeping qualities and flavor. Most susceptible to SVB. Finally the ancient cushaws, good pie pumpkin, but it is a personal taste. One of my favorites but generally low in popularity. In case you you are asking about kabocha and buttercups, they are Hubbard types as is the acorn size Gold Nugget.