A gardener friend told me to plant icicle radishes as soon in Spring as possible, in a circle large enough to plant squash/etc. in. Wait till the radishes bloom (let them 'go to seed') then or slightly after the first of June (we live in zone 7) plant your squash. By that time either the squash bugs will have moved on, died out for the season, or been repelled by the radishes allowed to bloom. I've tried this with some success. Have run into a few late hatching squash bugs, but in such a decreased number that I could easily trap them under boards and/or pick them off.
Gardeners seem to/tend to have a 'bragging rights' attitude toward who plants what the earliest or first. Forget it. Plant later...and the squash bugs, for the most part, will have gone to your earlier planting competitors!
A gardener friend told me to plant icicle radishes as soon in Spring as possible, in a circle large enough to plant squash/etc. in. Wait till the radishes bloom (let them 'go to seed') then or slightly after the first of June (we live in zone 7) plant your squash. By that time either the squash bugs will have moved on, died out for the season, or been repelled by the radishes allowed to bloom. I've tried this with some success. Have run into a few late hatching squash bugs, but in such a decreased number that I could easily trap them under boards and/or pick them off.
Gardeners seem to/tend to have a 'bragging rights' attitude toward who plants what the earliest or first. Forget it. Plant later...and the squash bugs, for the most part, will have gone to your earlier planting competitors!