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greg mosser wrote:
i think you could be okay with anything with a decent vining tendency as long as whatever you’ve got them climbing is sturdy and especially if there’s a way you can make sure that the weight of squash isn’t just held up with tendrils, but that the vine itself goes through the structure.
Tereza Okava wrote: the advantage with spaghetti squash is that I can plant it before any of the other squash- it doesn't seem to like the crazy summer heat like the other squashes do. So it finishes early, I rip out the vines, and the other squash are just getting established and I don't have to worry about frankensquash mixes.
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Pearl Sutton wrote:I grew it in NM because it did tolerate the dry heat.
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My squash hasn't done well either, but thankfully we don't have those awful bugs here. Any time I tried to grow squash on a trellis, I had to woman handle it into cooperating. That would be a challenge with 300! I also found I had to support the fruit if it was large. It would be interesting if you ran a comparison next year?I had a bad year here, out of the 300-some squash (summer and winter) and pumpkin plants I put in of 20+ types, I currently (September) still have 4 plants: 1 tromboncino and 3 (still young) kabocha.
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Do you know how much heat it needs? We are technically "7a" but that's because we don't get cold. We also don't get hot, so plants that want a summer with lots of temps in the high 80's F simply sit around and don't produce/ripen in my climate.Joylynn Hardesty wrote:How about an edible gourd? Try out cuccuzzi, maybe cuccuzzi, or snake gourd. I've bought it under each name. I like it about 18" long. I throw it in some soup, it has a substantial texture. My carnivore family don't miss the meat if I Include it in a veggie soup. It freezes well too, doesn't get mushy.
It's a slow starter, but it tried to eat my shed one year. I had some trellis attached to the side, it exceeded 10 feet tall. I had to keep pulling the vines from the roof.
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Mike Haasl wrote: Trellising gave 1.5 squash per plant and sprawling gave 1.6 squash per plant. Considering the trellising ones were at double the density, I'd say that trellising did better and clearly didn't do worse. Other than the labor to guide them up the trellis.
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Gardens in my mind never need water
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Pearl Sutton wrote:I had a bad year here, out of the 300-some squash (summer and winter) and pumpkin plants I put in of 20+ types, I currently (September) still have 4 plants: 1 tromboncino and 3 (still young) kabocha. All the rest died of fungus or squash beetles. The things in better soil hold out longer (although none long enough to set fruit) so soil improvement is happening, and the ones that are still alive climbed things. I think it got them enough air flow to avoid fungus, and maybe got them up out of where the beetles can reach them so easily. So for next year, I am wondering Which squash varieties climb best? Maybe if I start with things that will go up, I'll get some squash.
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Rez Zircon wrote: stock panels on cinder blocks (laid flat on the blocks), to get the squash plants completely up off the ground. Needed some initial guidance but once they got bushy the plants wanted to stay on top on their own.
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T Melville wrote: My cucumbers are nearly done now, but produced like gangbusters, though they're vertical
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Pearl Sutton wrote:
Rez Zircon wrote: stock panels on cinder blocks (laid flat on the blocks), to get the squash plants completely up off the ground.
That's interesting!Wonder what goes on under the panels as far as bugs, rodents and weeds... Hm.. Might try that. Thank you!! :D
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Pearl Sutton wrote:
T Melville wrote: My cucumbers are nearly done now, but produced like gangbusters, though they're vertical
That is exactly the theory I'm working with. Get them up out of bug and fungus zone.
Rez Zircon wrote:
Must not be zucchini's year. I planted seeds twice and none came up. Broke down and bought one, and tho the plant looks healthy, it never grew (it's still as small as when I got it in June) and tho it produced a few male blossoms -- that was it. And I haven't seen the usual bags of homeless zucchini roaming the streets, so maybe it's a general thing. Not enough sunspots? wrong magical incantation?? a cure for zucchini poisoning???
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Rebecca Norman wrote:
Nope, I was hounded by those homeless zucchini this year, for the first time for me over here on the other side of the planet. So it can't be the sunspots.
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