When Is A Squash Plant Finished Producing?

http://foodscape.tips/when-is-a-squash-plant-finished-producing When Is A Squash Plant Finished Producing? The natural cycle of a squash plant? If you can manage to get through the squash bugs, and your soil is good, and your plant is producing, when does it die? Well, my experience has been that all of these plants have a cycle of life where they produce fruit and continual growth until...it's over. The plants looked otherwise healthy, green leaves, nice foliage, pushing out fruit. But then at one point it just stopped producing. The leaves started to yellow in a uniform manner. All the flowers dried up, and the fruit just stopped producing. This is different than a plant dying from being overtaken by squash bugs. I did notice that my pruning had an effect on the plant's production capacity. Through the course of a squash plant's life it will put out vines going in different directions. By default gravity pulls them down and I intentionally cut them off. When I cut off the growing vines I forced the plant to keep going up. This works very well for awhile. But naturally these plants put out their vines and produce abundant fruit on those vines and it seems as part of the design of the plant, it is hurt when those vines are removed. It seems like the main trunk eventually stopped supplying nutrients to the whole plant and it slowly yellowed. Because the off-shoot vines do produce fruit well, I was letting them grow out until the first fruit done and then lopping them off. This also led to the eventual death of this plant. So on my other plants I have begun tying up the side vines on the plant as well to keep them moving in a vertical direction. Anyway! It's good to know that when you plant stops producing you should just pull it out of the ground. Make more space for other things to grow. Learn more and join the movement at: http://foodscape.tips