ZucchiniDramatis

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Engineer and public health scientist, owned by cats and slave to the raised bed vegetable gardens and dirt single track.

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Republicans in #Ohio are trying squash democracy by requiring ballot initiatives have a 60% majority for passage rather than a simple 50%. And they are trying to do this through a special election on August 8, a time when many people are busy with summer plans.

Please help spread the word and get out the vote. Here’s three ways to pitch in.

https://www.mobilize.us/activateamerica/event/569758/

https://www.mobilize.us/swingleft/event/567048/

https://www.mobilize.us/swingleft/event/563286/

Get Out the Vote for Ohio Special Election · Activate America

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Best kind of neighborly exchange! Eggplants and Italian long hots in exchange for 3 kinds of cucumber. #vegetablegardening #gardening #growyourown #veggies #eggplant #hotpeppers #cucumbers #sharing

More squash vine borer damage! First hint is this droopy leaf. Look on the underside and down the stem for small holes and/or lumps of frass. Sometimes you can extract the Squash Vine Borer and save the leaf, but this one is too far gone. Often the moth lays an egg right at the base of the leaf like this one did and you have to scrape it off before it digs into the vine and kills the leaf.

#vegetablegardening #gardening #growyourown #veggies #zucchini #squashbugs #svb #pests #squashvineborer

Fasciation in a female zucchini. The third picture is a normal female flower. The first 2 show abnormal cell proliferation. I have no idea if the bees got in there to pollinate it, or if it can even be pollinated. The 4th picture shows the zucchini itself is about 4 inches long, much longer than a normal and pollinated female fruit. #fasciation #vegetablegardening #gardening #growyourown #veggies #zucchini #abnormalities #deformity
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Parasitized hornworm caterpillar - braconid wasps lay eggs under the caterpillar’s skin then grow in these cocoons until the cut themselves free. As much as I don’t want the hornworms eating my tomato plants, they do do a good deed by hosting these pollinating wasps. After they all hatched this morning - see the last two pictures - I put the poor hornworm out of its misery. #vegetablegardening #pests #hornworm #wasps #tomatoplant
Wish I’d taken a better “before” picture so you could see the small light brown hole near the end of the zucchini leaf. Cut open you can see the small squash vine borer inside - white larva with a black head. This is a small one. Luckily no damage other than this leaf. #vegetablegardening #gardening #growyourown #veggies #zucchini #squashbugs #svb #pests #squashvineborer
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Let’s play another round of “Spot the squash vine borer egg”! Can you see it? Zoom in and bam, staring us right in the face! Scrape that bad boy off of there! #vegetablegardening #gardening #growyourown #veggies #zucchini #squashbugs #svb #pests