When the harvest is finished be sure and let the chickens in there. They'll eat any bugs left as well as cultivate and fertilize for next year.

Do you mulch heavily around the squash ? Rollies tend to congregate in there .

No.

As soon as I water, I look for the mature bugs to pop out. I then grab them, take them to the rock steps and introduce my boot to their body/head. I also go over my plants, by that I mean look under their leaves, for little brown eggs. These will be in a group. I then rip that part of the leaf out and put them in a ziplock bag and smash them before tossing them. I HATE squash bugs. If you can get the first two generations, there won't be a third, or forth, or so on...Takes several weeks, but it will help in the upcoming years.

Today's harvest...

Looks as if you have the makings of a good marinated salad, or squash fritters. Are your cucumbers sweet this year. Mine were bitter last year, but fine this year.

Yep. My cucumbers are usually very sweet and this year is no exception...thus far.

I've got an awesome looking cucumber vine growing. Problem is I just picked 1 great looking cucumber and the others aren't pollinating. There are NO male blooms anywhere on the plant. I went down every single flower this morning... 28 blooms, all female. What's up?

I am not sure. I've had that happen with squash before...except they were all male and no females. I have found that allowing cucumber plants to go along the ground instead of climbing increases production.

Cukes are looking pretty good so far. I canned 2 qts of pickles last Friday and have about another qt hanging on the vine almost ready for picking. As mentioned above, I am loaded with blooms too. Some seem to be setting, others, not so much. I have mine climbing. I also have a lot of green bean plants, probably 30 plants loaded with blooms and some small (1" long) beans hanging on them. Everything is looking okay right now if the tomatoes will set. The plants are huge with only 15-20 blooms in all right now (4 plants). Bell peppers have blooms as does jalapenos. I've already picked some jalapenos and they were good, not too hot really.

My cucumber plants have little dried spots polka dotted on the leafs, anyone know what causes this?

Still waiting on the tomatoes to ripen, cherrys are starting to produced daily. My cukes got ate by the peacocks. May have to get another frezzer for the squash: }