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    I'm pretty new to gardening and am having trouble finding a straight answer to this question.
    We just put in some new summer squash and zucchini plants that are a few inches high (we bought them already started from a garden shop). Today I went out to look at them and at first it looked like something stepped on them since they were laying on the ground. On closer inspection it looks like something very small cut through them at the base and left the rest of the plant laying there. This must have just happened because the plants are still green. Some of the plants are still attached but the stems look VERY thin.
    Our plants didn't make it last year either but we thought it was because it got really hot and they dried out. I know this isn't the case this year since it has rained the last few days and like I said the plants are still green. But now looking back I suspect the same thing happened last year to our brand new plants. The year before we lived next door and couldn't keep up with the amount of summer squash the plants were producing.
    Today I dug around the base and found a grub type thing near some of the plants but am not sure if this is what did the job. I have read about the kind that bore into the plant but these plants are so young nothing could fit inside. Is it the same thing just attacking from the outside? If so from what I've read elsewhere it seems like there is nothing I can do this year...is this true? and will they attack my other plants too? (peppers, tomatoes, leeks. broccoli)
    Any help would be greatly appreciated! I don't want to buy more plants just to have them all killed off again.
    Last edited by ambraenoopsy; 05-11-2012 at 05:58 PM.

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