I'm not sure what's going on here but one of my zucchini plants has come down with some bad leaf acne. This can't be good. Any ideas on what it could be?Next weekend I may whip up a batch of garlic and cayenne tea to spray on the leaves. This is allegedly an effective organic herbicide...or a bunch of hooey.
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Ooooh some sort of insect damage, probably a beetle. Get something like a pyrethrin inssecticidal soap if you want go organic. The beetles will be hiding on the underside of the leaves.
Will give it a shot. Is pyrethrin really organic?
Looks like flea beetle damage with all those tiny buckshot holes. Trying to remember if flea beetles like squash. Flea beetles look like fleas - little black shiny dots on the leaves that jump when you get near them.
Maybe cucumber beetles? Those are EVIL! They've wiped out my squash and cuke crops entirely in past years!!! Cucumber beetles are a yellowish green with either stripes or spots on their back shell. KILL KILL KILL!!
Another one I've learned to dread, but don't think makes those kinds of holes, is squash bugs... Look for lots of hard dark red eggs on the undersides of the leaves - I found it's easier to pull off the leaf (or part of it) and discard it rather than crush the eggs - they're tough! And then when they hatch - and trust me, they will - you'll have little grayish/greenish critters running around on very black spidery-like legs. Kinda cute. KILL THEM! Because they'll grow up to be the sort of shield-shaped brownish/gray squash bugs, and they'll suck the life out of your plants.
And I've found cucumber beetles and squash bugs LOOOOOVE to mate right there in front of you, laughing in your face as you try to protect your plants.
The war has begun! Are you prepared?! ;-)
Please do not leave any infected Zuchs at your parent's door!
I thought John and George were dead, so you only have to deal with two of them.
pyrethrin is made from crysanthemums, avoid the evil synthetic version known a permethrin.
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