Last year I was visited by my first squash vine borer, the dreaded gardener’s public enemy number one 😬. Did I try to fight it? Did I try to cover my squash plants and spray toxic chemicals and stress out over all these methods to deal with vine borers recommended online?

Nah! I’m not a fan of fighting Mother Mature and stressing myself out for nothing. The vine borer is stealthier than any attempts we human have tried to come up with to outsmart it. If it’s here, there’s not much you can do about it.🤷🏻‍♀️

So what did I do? I just grew something else the borer can’t eat instead. The vine borer has to be starved out for 3 years and it will find somewhere else to go. Tromboncino squashes are almost identical to zucchini and other summer squashes that the vine borers love to feed on. The only difference is Tromboncino is resistant to vine borers and other squash diseases.

But if you want to stress out and work harder to fight Mother Nature, go ahead😉. It’s the most basic human instinct to do, because we think we are entitled to Mother Nature’s abundance on our terms. No baby no. She decides when and what to give you. You do not. I’m just gonna be here relaxing and collecting my abundant harvest that I got with barely any stress.