You know, nobody told me, that so much heartache can come with gardening. <sigh>.  Each and every year of gardening, well…..wait, this is only our second year….but we’ve learned a little bit more. I enjoy the learning process.  I really do!  Just as in life, I can handle learning through  little mistakes along the way.  But I prefer NOT to learn, through sheer devastation.  You know?

But this year, we learned a really hard lesson.   We learned about one of a gardener’s worst, ugliest, most destructive enemy:

The squash vine borer.

I was confused about the sudden rapid decline of my beautiful squash plants, in this post, when my friend Maria clued me in about this common squash plant destroyer, in the comments of a previous post.  I researched immediately, and found she had indeed hit the nail on the head, and correctly identified the dasher of all of our squash hopes and dreams.  This year anyway.… Read More