squash dying

All three of my beautiful squash plants are dying and it looks like it is because the main stem is rotting. What would cause this?

Squash vine borer

Try splitting the main stems, dig out the borer's, and cover the stems with fresh soil. Sometimes, the squash plants recover and go on to produce more squash. It's worth a try. If you don't remove the borer's, the plant will die, it might die anyway, but try removing the borer's first, and mound the soil around the split stems.

Arias

This message was edited Jul 13, 2007 11:08 PM

Thanks. I thought I might have watered too much.