Green Thumbs: Gardening in Northern Utah

We have squash bugs.  I didn’t even know there were squash bugs until yesterday, and I hate them.  A bunch of my squash plants are having the same problem – the leaves are yellowing and dying, there’s some black spots on the undersides of the leaves, and often, the flowers will die and fall off before the vegetable starts growing:

Somtimes we’ll get a squash that never gets big, and starts rotting on the vine:

I have a good handful of healthy looking squash that have not grown any bigger than a fat pinky finger in 2 weeks:

and I’m exasperated.

We. Love. Squash.

And this year we’ll be lucky to get 3, I’m thinking.

My friend told me about a product I can buy to dust on the leaves of the young plants.  Next year.  These are goners.

My other pests:

Grasshoppers.

they are big, they are small, and they are GIANT.  They are well fed on my garden, sadly, and most of my plants are riddled with holes.  The news reported recently that while the state is having the grasshopper problem everywhere, my town is the worst.

At this point, I’m going to be lucky to get anything!

We’ve already harvested 1 zucchini, a handful of smallish tomatoes, a few beets and a couple carrots.