Some suggestions here: http://www.organicgardening.com/learn-and-grow/powdery-mildew

The powdery mildew spore can overwinter and survive in compost. It's always around anyhow - my Monarda always gets it no matter what I do - but why encourage it?

I get all the coffee grounds I can use from a coffee shop. Next to fresh grass clippings that seems to be the best source of greens I can get.

I will consider talking to the ladies down at the Java Juggs and see what they have. With regard to coffee grounds, where's your mind. I will simply tell my wife that you told me too.

All seriousness aside I will look into that. During Spring and Summer I have a lot of green lawn clippings etc. but during the winter I get way more browns.

Thanks again

Composting with those leaves won't hurt anything, as it'll come back to your garden no matter what. What happens is that your squash plant loses the ability to fight it off as it ages and winds down it's life cycle. Dehydration can stress it so that it gets infected too. But it doesn't matter what you do, towards fall it'll kill off your plant, but just be aware that the plant was already done anyway. The only time it's an issue is if your plant is too weak to stay healthy and then it will succumb too early, but the solution to that is obviously just to raise a healthy, hydrated, fed plant - not worry about your compost.

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Series-ously what you say makes sense. I will still ship out tomato plants with blight as I believe it can get in the soil and be a bigger problem.

Take them off and bake them for one hour at 220 degrees. The Nitrogen will still be there and you even get rid of a lot of viruses.