OK, I have some narrow spaces about 2 foot wide where I could train squash plants. I have read that some of you have put them under lidl cloches and grown them in these/along their length. What length/width were the lidl cloches...other brands used??? ....and how many squashes/what spacings did you use :)
Lidl cloches can be adjusted to cover two rows of young squashes covering a width of about 1 m by some 4.5 m long, as I did yesterday. In about a month, I will adjust the width to cover just 1 row of butternuts, about 0.75 m wide but with extra height, and 4.5 m long. The cloche will be removed from all my summer and winter squashes after a month as it will be warm enough in Glasgow for them to grow well without protection. The ends of the remaining cloche over the Butternuts, will be opened to allow access for bees, but will still give the added protection that butternuts need in Glasgow to produce mature fruit.
I plant the winter squash about 0.75 m apart and let long shoots run past the next plant. ie the shoots are trained to run parallel.
There is a photo of the two rows of winter squashes with the cover removed after a month last year here:-http://www.growyourown.info/page127.html
Thanks very much, really helpful and an excellent site/blog. I am a bit biased as I'm from Glasgow originally :)