Tongue in cheek , y ' all . When it is necessary to fight a battle , even if you know in advance you wo n't win , it 's never too late to get started . On Saturday while Mark and Amy were grocery shopping , I dug out and cut up all the acorn squash vines and all but one zucchini vine and one pumpkin vine , to be dumped in the compost . Hopefully it will be hot enough to kill any squash bugs that got dumped with them .

Question: Why did you cut up the acorn squash vine and the zucchini vines and one pumpkin vine ?
Answer: I needed somewhere to put the scrapsTo add them to my compost heap to decomposeI wanted to get rid of the scraps from the vegetablesI do n't eat those vegetables so I wanted to throw them away