Help I need your advice. I have a number of squash seeds that i want to grow and i do not have enough space, i am thinking of letting some of them climb, now Jeannine or Chrisc or anyone else, what squashes would be the best ones for that, i was thinking of uchiki kuri and sweet dumpling as two types i have loads of other squash seeds and you cannot always find enough info on the web for the ones that i have.
Help please ???
I found that uchiki kuri looked very attractive with their fruit dangling down from a cane. I am going to grow some in my front garden this year for decoration. I did not find them particularly vigourous. The fruit is red/organ from the beginning.
I've found that butternuts are happy to climb.
I'm going to try this as well, seems to be lots of advice on here about squashes!
One year my pumpkin climbed a six foot hawthorn hedge to escape from the compost heap where I had planted it, and set a large pumpkin in the sun on the flattish top of the hedge. Quite difficult to retrieve when the time came.
I have also set squashes to climb into my old, gnarled apple tree, starting them off crawling up an old piece of trellis like a ladder, with the occasional bit of string to guide them.
Bonbons will climb, and Seminole are famous for it.... pretty m,uch all cucurbits do to a degree anyway.... if you can spare some checken wire it shouild be easy to get almost any of them to scrable up that...
chrisc
last year, i only grew turks turban and a few butternuts, i have collected the seeds for the following and any ideas which ones of these would be good climbers please
Uchi Kuri
wee b little
pottimarron
shark fin
golden nugget
delicata
winter festival
sweet dumpling
hooligan
I appreciate any advice
regards k ???
I've grown Uchiki Kuri up canes and it did really well.
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Quote from: Squash64 on February 27, 2010, 10:29:41
I've grown Uchiki Kuri up canes and it did really well.
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What did you use to tie the stem to canes? I tried last year with some small round courgettes but the ties cut into the stems and I had to put them down along the ground.
Quote from: tomatoada on February 27, 2010, 10:40:54
What did you use to tie the stem to canes? I tried last year with some small round courgettes but the ties cut into the stems and I had to put them down along the ground.
I use that soft brown twine they sell in Wilkinsons. Might be a good idea not to tie them too tightly so the stems have room to grow.
Just looked at the photo again and you can see how it is fastened to the cane, to the left of the squash.
Grew Golden Nugget last year and would say they are bush type, not climber. Quite compact and productive though.
thanks guys for the advice, much apreciated
regards
K
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These climbed to the top of a holly tree, then as the gourds became larger and heavier they slowly pulled the top of the tree down to reaching height- sort of a collapsable trellis and never needs painting. ;D