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1. Article · Aug 5, 2026 · Pat Munts

   Gardening: Plants wilting and dying? It could be the elusive squash bug (opens the original)

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   Nicole Taylor stopped dead in her tracks. Her zucchini and summer squash plants that were lush and growing a week ago in her community garden plot were now wilted and dying. “What happened? They were good last week.” A quick inspection revealed her plants were covered with squash bugs happily sucking the life out of her plants. Squash bugs are a problem this year around the area. Our winter temperatures didn’t get cold enough to kill off the overwintering adults, so they got a head start unbekno

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2. Article · Jul 29, 2026 · Pat Munts

   Gardening: Annuals into the fall (opens the original)

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   Are your hanging baskets looking leggy and scraggly? Are your petunias looking sad and begging for water? Are all your annuals looking like they’d like to head for the shade if they could? So goes it when the high heat of summer hits the Inland Northwest. Between now and the end of August, most annuals go dormant out of self-defense in the heat. For gardeners, it’s a great time to get them shaped for the fall growing season. The most important thing you can do for annuals of all kinds is to keep

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