What squash like to climb?

I am planning my 2024 garden. I will have 1 cattle panel for some climbing squash.

The squash that are in question:
Long Island cheesecake
Nanticoke squash, a maxima landrace sold by experimental farm network.

I have Seminole pumpkin, the strain I had purchased does not enjoy climbing. They laugh at squash bugs. I'll keep some sorta isolated, and toss a couple in with a moschatta landrace running over ground that I wasn't able to make climb.

On other trellises I am also going to  have trombocini, luffa gourd, oh, and cucumbers.

Pearl started a similar thread a few years ago.

https://permies.com/t/148329/squash-climb

It seems like you already have some good climbers of tromboncino, luffa etc. I guess for squashes that are prone to send out adventurous roots or are super heavy, they are better to be left on the ground.

The ones I have had climb best are Illinois White Pumpkin, Green Striped Cushaw, Tromboncino and Kabocha. Due to too many factors, I'm getting almost no squash off any of it, but they do climb well.

Your Seminoles are not bothered by squash bugs? I guess I'll be trying them again then.  Last two times they died randomly at about 3 inches high.

Joylynn Hardesty wrote:On other trellises I am also going to  have trombocini, luffa gourd, oh, and cucumbers.

I've grown all of these.  Good choices and all flexible.  Young luffa is good for eating/sauteing while those allowed to fully ripen make excellent natural sponges.  Love tromboncino which ignores vine borers and can be used as summer squash when smaller or grown to full size/ripeness which allows you to treat them as winter squash including the longer storage (6+ months).

Thanks for the info on how long tromboncini keep. I've been hesitant to experiment with that, and had been throwing them, chopped, in the freezer.

Your Seminoles are not bothered by squash bugs? I guess I'll be trying them again then.  

I'm pretty sure I got the seeds from Southern Seed Savers Exchange. But it was a few years back.

Thanks May. I'd forgotten about that thread.

Joylynn Hardesty wrote:Thanks for the info on how long tromboncini keep. I've been hesitant to experiment with that, and had been throwing them, chopped, in the freezer.

I've become a big proponent of tromboncino and have stopped growing other squashes as it covers all bases for me.  Freezer space is at a premium, so being able to simply store them on shelves for winter/spring use is a big plus.

I grew long island cheese pumpkins last year. I did not plant them to climb the fence but they did anyway. I didn't get fruit on those vines, but likely because they grew late in the season.