Thank Heavens for HT. I have gotten the answers to so many things. I need your help with this one.
My Butternut Squash is going good, putting on about 5-6 fruit right now. However at the base of the plant the leaves are starting to yellow. Some of the leaves have just droped off all together. I looked under the leaves today and I see mold lumps on the soil and I saw some mold on a blossom that had dropped. Or what looks like mold--gray, fuzzy, mound. I picked a yellow straight neck this morning (yes they are side by side-I can't get my dh to think crop distribution to prevent problems-he planted them) and on the flower end the remaining flower part had fuzzy gray stuff.
This is my first year with Butternut and I really really would like to have some!
We have HIGH HUMIDITY right now and we have been blessed with rain after a spring drought. I searched out powdery mildew on google, but that dosen't seam to be it. I've searched for other problems and I can't come up with this exact one on the vast www. Nothing like YOUR experiance.
What can I do. Thanks for your responses in advanced. HT folks are the best.
:walk:
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Today at Poplar Hill:
Finishing canning green beans
Canning Pickles and Tomatoes
Fretting about everything in the garden
Having big salad for lunch and tacos for dinner
Doing laundry
Hosting dd10's friend for a play date
Trying to pick up laundry room
My Butternut Squash is going good, putting on about 5-6 fruit right now. However at the base of the plant the leaves are starting to yellow. Some of the leaves have just droped off all together. I looked under the leaves today and I see mold lumps on the soil and I saw some mold on a blossom that had dropped. Or what looks like mold--gray, fuzzy, mound. I picked a yellow straight neck this morning (yes they are side by side-I can't get my dh to think crop distribution to prevent problems-he planted them) and on the flower end the remaining flower part had fuzzy gray stuff.
This is my first year with Butternut and I really really would like to have some!
We have HIGH HUMIDITY right now and we have been blessed with rain after a spring drought. I searched out powdery mildew on google, but that dosen't seam to be it. I've searched for other problems and I can't come up with this exact one on the vast www. Nothing like YOUR experiance.
What can I do. Thanks for your responses in advanced. HT folks are the best.
:walk:
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Today at Poplar Hill:
Finishing canning green beans
Canning Pickles and Tomatoes
Fretting about everything in the garden
Having big salad for lunch and tacos for dinner
Doing laundry
Hosting dd10's friend for a play date
Trying to pick up laundry room