HELLO HIVE
Fluted pumpkin is hugely important to people who know how good it is to eat vegetables regularly and how much nutrients that these plant provides us for every leaf consumed.
Vegetable consumption is very high globally and while some are rather more nutritive than the other most consumers don't normally care about now cultivating some of these vegetables can be challenging like any other crop and it could be more challenging than we think since it is not advisable to make use of herbicides on leafs that we will eventually eat all in the name of controlling weeds.
Weeds aren't the only challenges face with other bigger threats like pest and disease causing more damage in some cases than weeds.
Vegetables are mostly soft and socculent making it an ideal meal for hungry pest these pest eat the fluted pumpkin leaf and also bore holes into the plant leaving the plant weak and dry, the level of these damage hugely reduce the value of these plants in the market if the leafs had not completely been eating.
Common pest like mites, aphids and caterpillars cause more damage to the plant than we usually think they could and I am currently struggling to find a way to suppress their activities before it gets out of hand, I have already tried using ash already but there's been no difference and I am working to find a solution as quick as possible.