Margaret Lauterbach wrote: > If you're in the part of the country that has squash vine borers, that's > probably your answer. If you're in the West, it's probably squash bugs. > Pick a dead leaf off the ground. Are there little grey scurrying bugs? > Squash bugs. They poison the plant, somehow, and it looks like it's dry > before it dies, but it isn't. Margaret L We live in Calgary, Alvberta, Canada. - straight north of Los Angeles. So is there a cure for the problem? Ed