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Hector

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Squash suitable for trailing under cloches
« on: June 21, 2009, 15:30:14 »
I know you can get bush squash but I can see others are trailing ones that usually climb...how can you tell a squashes suitability as a ground trailer?
I have
Red Kuri
Sugarloaf
Celebration
Hunter which I know can trail...anyone know re the others?
Jackie

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Re: Squash suitable for trailing under cloches
« Reply #1 on: June 21, 2009, 15:42:03 »
Celebration is a bush, the others are vines. Don't know about growing them under a cloche. Might you not have problems with mildew in the enclosed space?

Also, last year I made the mistake of growing the bush ones in with the vine types, and they got overrun

Hector

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Re: Squash suitable for trailing under cloches
« Reply #2 on: June 21, 2009, 19:53:54 »
This is to stop them being munched by horse leaning over fence ( they keep horses next to us and they limbo  ovr/under electric fence...so can neck over and munch :) Will be keeping either end open during day.
Jackie

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Re: Squash suitable for trailing under cloches
« Reply #3 on: June 21, 2009, 19:57:30 »
Red kuri are lovely. We have grown them on the ground. Very productive.

 

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