Question! When we say for melons have 1 fruit per vine, is a vine one seed that you put in the ground, or do the side shoots count as their own “vine”

Squash Vine Borer (SVB) - I'm sorry but have to offer counter information. SVB's can and will lay eggs ANY where on the plant. And it will most likely be on the leaf and stem. Then larvae hatches and then enters the plant through the hollow stem close to where it hatched (which is much easier to penetrate) and then travels down THROUGH the inside of the stem to the main root to munch. This is why it goes undetected until it has killed the plant. The foil wrap will only help where it's applied - in my opinion, is not at all effective. SVB's have attracted to the pheromones produced by the plant - and zucchinis in particular produce a lot, as do most of the primary squash (acorn, spaghetti, et al) to include pumpkins. Tromboncino (center cut) squash do not produce the same type and thus, do not attract the moth very much - and are deemed naturally resistant. Cucumbers can attract them - but the stem vines are not hollow all the way to the main root so even if eggs are laid and they hatch, the larvae are stopped short. I say this after YEARS off battling that moth and it's spawn. And why I grow alternatives to standard zucchini - such as center cut. The method of burying vines/stems to perpetuate alternate roots is a good idea. But, the plant has to be big enough to do that - and in my area, that is a huge challenge that most home gardeners don't get to. Best defense is to cover the plant and hand pollinate. Added: inject BT into the hollow stems once presence is detected. SO sorry for the ramble.

The poppy seeds was the coolest. Thank you for showing us.

Those goofy looking cucumbers are turned into amazing relish ❤

A BIG thank you! I am getting predominantly male flowers on my squash; I'll put some male flowers in the frig. Also, I now know why cukes can become distorted!!!!

Always a wealth of information, Jacques! Thank you! Your garden is beautiful!

Omg! Love the poppy seed harvest add to your video! Thank you. Every bit of info is worth the watch of your videos .

I really appreciate your informative rather than promotional suggestions. Your content is succinct and to the point. No rambling or drama! I’m looking forward to much more.

Thank you for all your great info. You are so easy to listen to.

thanks so much!! i’ve had so much trouble with getting zucchinis or pumpkins. 😭😭. i appreciate it. 🙌🏽🙌🏽

Jacques, I feel like your my kindred spirit in the garden world. And thank you so very much for picking my Central Coast California garden for the viewers garden pictures episode with Eric. I was so jazzed about that! Keep up the great work. I chop and drop too.

Beautiful garden...thank you for sharing wish you success and be healthy always

Thank you so much JitG! Your educational videos are astonishing. I'm growing more because of you and Epic Gardening. Fantastic videos.

Super helpful for my garden right now, thanks! I was prepared to hand-pollinate every stinking female squash flower (Sweet Meat pumpkin) that I could, but you've steered me straight! LOL

Thank you Jacques! Great tips, as always.

I always learn so much from you! Thank you for all the tips and advice 🙂

I love watching your videos, always learning something new, or getting ideas for my own gardens. I love that foil trick, preventive is always better than having to fix a problem after it starts. Thanks!

Thank s, I will follow ur advice. Being a very new gardener I need all the help I can get. I really like ur teaching method.

This was fantastic, thank you. I’m finally understanding some things.

That last tip about burying the squash vines is so great! Borers are a huge problem here. Sound like it’s just a good general practice either way though. Thank you!!

Woah!!! That’s crazy cool about the poppy!! I assume that’s what theyre so easy to spread? I love all the tips! Thanks for being awesome!!

The epic 4-cells are perfect for Cucurbits. Perfect. Just crazy easy. I followed your advice for umbrella pruning for my cucurbits! Most of them are growing along my fence or up 6 foot stakes, just a few winter squash sprawling along the ground. They had 3-4 days of acting stalled out after the pruning, and then kicked into a third gear and now I have a ton of baby cukes and squash growing. And definitely more pollinators. I think they appreciate the easier access to the flowers. Any hint of age or disease is gone. THANK YOU! I'll be thinking of you when I pickle next weekend! Now on to my melons!

Got really great squash last year, gonna try for melons next year. Great video as always!

Very Timely! Thanks so much

Great informative video, thank you for sharing. Your garden is so beautiful.

wooooooooooot!! I started gardening here too late for melons but I will do this next spring!

Really great information! Thanks

Awesome video... the "Foil around the stem" 🤯

Hi Jacques, when you have a moment, could you do a video on how you prepare your soil for your in ground garden? I am in Los Angeles, the soil in my backyard is hard rock clay. I amended with organic matters and cow manure but it is still so hard. Nothing wants to grow out of it. Thus far, I am growing in containers but, I want to grow my vegetables inground if possible. Thank you.

This is my favorite episode so far!!!! Super helpful and glad to hear about something other than tomatoes lol I don’t like or grow tomatoes so those aren’t as fun for me to watch. Well done and keep it up 🎉

“Jacques-y!” Freya says hi! Thank you so much for this video, I’m struggling with squash vine borer, and this tip is perfectly timed!

Nice video Jacques! I love the background music! It's very relaxing. I'm growing dill plants to eat. I'm wondering if you'll do a video where you show your way to grow dill plants in near future. Best of luck with all of your plants you're growing

Omgosh, the poppy seeds were a kool thing to see! 🥰🌱❤️

Great tips.

Thanks please do more watermelon videos and keep up the good work love the gardening videos and thanks again your videos really Help with my garden 👍

Thank you for the information,

Hey Jaques, 👋 Just wanted give some positive feedback after seeing a couple of comments. I live in UK but I enjoy your videos, and I find a lot of your info useful, especially as here in the south, our summers are heating up, especially in urban areas and a lot of our traditional gardening knowledge no longer applies, whilst you have more experience in warmer climes, but admittedly some of your advice isnt specific to my area, like, I dont think we get SVB here (🙏) (still get powdery mildew though😢). I can easily enjoy the sharing of garden enthusiasm, whilst also hoovering up the new knowledge I can use.

I've got 3 Sibley Squash growing in a raised bed and onto a cattle panel arch with 3-5 squash on each vine. They're all performing *massively* with an excess of 12 hours of sun each day.

Great video! I never knew if you stopped watering a few weeks prior to the fruit being done, it can taste sweeter!

I've found that wrapping the stem doesn't usually work; the vine borer will just bore in to a spot higher up on the plant. A few things that have worked for me are covering the plant with netting. For me, that's a big pain because then I'm stuck hand-pollinating, but it does work. The other option that I tried last year was staking up my zucchini (which is the borers favorite plant in my garden). This worked fantastically. I pruned off side shoots and the lower leaves and was able to peak at the stem easily to see when there were borers present. I caught the problem easily and early because I could see the plant stem and was able to cut the borers out before they became large enough to do serious damage.

Perfect video! Thank you for so much helpful advice and tips, and everything was easy to understand and streamlined imo ❤

Wow your garden is great 15:00 😍

Never been this early before. Glad I decided to eat a cookie & turn on youtube instead of going outside 😄

Very educational

In the future, I plan to direct sow my squash and cucumbers. Most of my squash and cucumber seedlings were stunted after transplanting. I put in new seeds and they grew much faster, catching up with the transplants. My biggest issue has been squash vine borers. I put up a trap that caught a dozen males the first night and I caught 2 dozen with my jar, a few here and there. I can't even count how many eggs I removed. I have only seen and trapped 2 squash bugs... I assume before they mated, because I haven't found their eggs, yet. I did have to inject a few plants with Spinosad for a couple borers that got through. Plus, I do put compost over the stem in multiple places to create new roots. It's a full time job protecting my plants!

My favourite vegetable is gold squash (Patty pan squash). I bought some at the weekend, they're pretty expensive to buy.

Thank you! I learned some things. Can you grow crook neck and zucchini on a trellis?

Hi Jacques in the garden I started watching your videos about a couple of months or so ago and I have enjoyed watching all of the episodes that I have seen so far. Have you seen Kevin from the Epic Urban Garden recently? As I have seen a video which he posted earlier today and I have watched it about 6 times regarding the baby hens in his brooder that he got about 18.5 months ago roughly when he got his original hens at around the same age approximately. I first found out about your gardening channel through Kevin from Epic garden as I have been following his channel for about a year or two now give or take a few weeks and I have enjoyed his KZfaq videos on his channel as well okay. My name is Tammy Marie Daveson and I enjoy gardening,bonsai,cockatiel keeping as I have got 4 called Cheeky bird,Gema the gem, Fawkes and Hedwig oldest to youngest and I was raised in Australia Queensland and my parents enjoyed gardening,keeping budgies,Guinea pigs,peach faces,cats,dogs,fish and hermit crabs and to respect those around me which I do to the best of my ability.

I always thought that melons and squash had to be planted a distance away from each other . You have yours together. Have I been worrying about something that’s not needed ? I loved your video, it’s very helpful! Thanks !

Coyld you do a video about the ez flow fertigation tank? Im pretty sure i saw you have one hooked up to your hoselink. Im really confused about how to set one up

Cute pupper! Let's see more of the dog in the vids

Had 160 (+/-) acres in seed corn, planted squash (melons & zuke) in rows between & plants kinda used corn as trellis. Not as big a harvest as my hills, but i counted them a bonus harvest

thank you sir for all the help 🙏. If you double plant holes do you have to cut one out to thin them or can I transplant one to another spot in the garden? Your amazing 👏

Hey, I've been growing in Oklahoma for about 3 years and I've never had a good squash harvest , that being said this year is the year!! I'm sure of it I went with the bare stock a foot up and vertical growing , it has made spotting the vine bore much easier. Also I love your idea with the foil I've never thought of that but will be adding I piece to each stock

Can you make a video covering certain plants or maybe ways to train plants for a vertical setup? I have limited space and I want to maximize space next year

I like to start mine in four inch pots. They grow so fast, and most of my other seedlings have been moved outside by then, so I have space.

I had the same problem with my 3 sisters method this year! My first batch of Watermelon was eaten by Rabbits or Pill Bugs and the second batch got shaded out. My Cantaloupe is doing much better however! For me, I have fences surrounding my small garden so I just put netting up for the vines to climb and this year they're covering my whole fence. As for the Zucchini I really need to figure out the best place for it as they are monsters!

I love your video Jacques, one thing you did not cover is fertilizing. How much how often and why? Thank you so much for the video. ❌⭕️🙏🏽♥️😇

Jacques, this might seem off the wall, but a temporary mylar or mirrored structure directing sunlight toward plants that need that extra boost of sunlight might help. We've done it successfully.

I live in Texas (not for much longer!), and the Temps have been over 100 for days. I have several watermelons growing - a) when do you know when to stop watering, and b) CAN you stop watering when it's over 100? LOVE YOUR VIDEOS so informative. Also what state are you in? 😊❤

Never had luck with the foil method on squash plants as a SVB deterrent. I use athletic tape. I find it works much better and stays the course of the plant where the foil can come off during plant growth, watering, etc.

First time growing the little emerald zucchini. Direct sowed and they germinated well in my raised beds. It's been very hot, though they're on irrigation. The fruits are kinda oddly shaped: the usual hot dog shaped ones are less than 5"(which I expected from a compact variety), but some are shallot shaped. They had biotone, and Super Vites in their water once a week.

Wondering if corn pollen stays viable in the fridge, too? Last year a lot of the silks and pollen didn't coordinate their growing. If it happens this year I guess I've got nothing to lose! Thanks Jacques!

Another pest that's actually been far more destructive than SVB to our squash and cucumbers the past few years are Squash Bugs. They seem to appear out of nowhere and if you miss them, a few days later the vines are covered in nymphs and the entire plant begins to wilt and die.

The hat is everything! Where can I buy that 😅

Squash doin it!

So you all have been very helpful, last year I had the borers but luckily it was all containers so I am able to limit issues. I only did zucchini last year but added cukes, watermelon and cantaloupe this year almost all them on a trellis tunnel. I did not see any mention of it but do you use anything to prevent them from falling down?

What kind of timing do you follow when planting them? I am also in a warm zone. Mediterranean. Do you think its possible to plant them mid summer going into fall?

Great video! What about cucumber beetles! How to manage it?

Do you happen to know for taste if squash flowers are best harvested like pre-bloom, best bloom, post-bloom? Or does it even matter? Thanks Jacques!

Can you plant patty pan squash with cucumbers? Or do these species conflict with one another?

Would use a Jacques in my garden. Garden lore: Things grow fast in the hot summer &/or die fast.

After like 2 months my cucumber bushes are 2-3in tall and just now producing flowers. I think those are doomed 😆 Aphids completely ate the seed-leaves by the time the first true leaves were 1/4in. I even have one they ate it clear back to the stem and it grew still. I probably also shocked them by pulling out the other sprouts. Plants are amazing at trying through all that. I'll do trays next year :)

Tell me more about that melon?! Never heard of it

Can you please do a video on how to grow bush cucumbers and what support or pruning they need? I got Carosello Leccesse from San Diego Seed Company & thought it would be compact but it’s quite larger and viney so I pruned it a bit but no idea if I just helped or harmed my yield!

For hand polinating, I find a foam paintbrush works better.

I've never dealt with SVB in Virginia, but regular squash bugs are the bane of my existence! I lose so many plants to them every year. Do you have any tips for protecting plants from them?

Very helpful; I lost all my zucchini plants to boarers this year (it was my first year trying squash)

Thank you. Any idea why my squash plant isn’t growing female flowers? The “gentleman’s club” is using up my valuable growing space. 😑 Love your poppy side point! Can’t wait to grow those!

Thanks! I def am having the issue of one plant only producing female flowers and visa-versa. Will cross pollinate them. What about when the flowers are deformed? It's happening with my honeyboat squash. Now if I could figure out what's wrong with my bush beans plants...

So if you grow across the ground then you can root in many places and avoid SVB damage, but if you go vertically then you can avoid powdery mildew damaged. But you can't really avoid both right?

Cucumber pruning question that I haven't seen asked. My cucumbers have several vines and are about 2 ft tall. I didn't know about pruning to a single vine. Will it shock the plant too much if I prune to a single vine now?

I tried direct sowing my summer squash this year. Almost all of them have been eaten by slugs. After 3 plantings, we don't have enough season left to try again. I do have a few plants, but when starting indoors, I usually have many more.

Can you make a guide on peppers.

Thanks for the video. My problem last year and this year is that I only get male flowers on my zucchini and winter squash. So frustrating! I have read that when the temperature are high, female flowers don't appear. Any advice?

The dreaded Squash Vine Borer!🤬. In WI, Z5a we have tried everything! Our usual way is to do surgery by cutting a vertical slit and removing grub, then pack that wounded base stem with soil, THEN as soon as possible bury a leaf node along the stems to ensure the vines survive. We have 2 attacks a season here (Read about the life cycle). You can try and plant in between attacks, but that wasp looking moth will still find them. We have too many plants and some of the preventions like, wrapping tin foil/vet tape, injecting BT (didn’t work) and covering is futile as the SVB emerges from the ground and will be under that cover And I’m not hand pollinating. Rotating crops is also futile as they fly everywhere and read they can travel long distances. Next year we will continue to do surgery and burying vines and I’m always watching those leaves in the morning because if they are drooping and have plenty of water you know you’ve got a grub and grab the Exacto knife.😵‍💫. I will also be trying 2 different things-Captain Jack’s Dust and Surround Kaolin Clay at the base. Hopefully that keeps them away. I know they can and have drilled into the vine further down, but it’s not as prevalent. And yes, solid stemmed varieties like Violina Rugosa squash were not bothered, but we do still like our other hollow stemmed varieties.

Brilliant video with lots of awesome information! I live in the UK and am growing in a patio garden using Bath tubs and containers. My cucumbers look a bit like your 3 sisters squash plant, but mine have full sun all day, can it be too hot for cucumbers to grow? (We've been getting highs for 30°C+ my gardens been getting to 40°+ because of the paving)

hey jacques, when you say 2-3 winter squash fruit per vine, do you mean 2-3 per plant entirely, or per production stem on each plant?

Can't wait for the manual pollination series "Doing the Business" with Jacques. 🤭

Gonna cover my watermelon 🍉 vines ✅

My biggest pest was the squash bug. Wow. They are freaking tenacious and I was terrified of them. I was using tongs to grab them off the plant and drown them.

I have an issue with earwigs eating my squash and the flowers. Any suggestions on how to prevent or kill them? I've used Neem, Sevin, and Diatenacious Earth and they didn't help.

When are you starting bee keeping?

Once the cucumber hits the ground after going up and over the trellis, so you cut it?

7:50 when you say limit the vines to two or three fruits, what exactly do you mean by "vine?" Are you referring to the whole plant as one vine or are you referring to each of the vines that are coming off of the plant? Thank you!

Make lemon poppy seed muffins. Martha Stewart has a great recipe.

When you say stop watering watermelon winter squash etc I live in a very hot climate how long should I stop watering before harvest or is it reduce watering just not clear for me thanks

I put a zuccini and yellow squash in grow bags that had new fresh soil mix. I got 1 fruit off each, the rest had blossom end rot, so confusing since they had good nutritious soil. Going to try again but it was sure a bummer

Hi there! What were you mulching the plants around your trellis with? I saw it was in a bag. Thanks!

I've had cucumbers look like that in a sub irrigated container that always had water. I think it's more to due with plant age and pollination.