Planting squash on a trellis

[Chic Rustler]

Not sure if I did it right or not. Open to any tips

 

[Britesea]

@Wannabefree my DH read your post and said "Oh No! My MOM is posting!"

 

[Mini Horses]

The hose are great to powder seven dust, also. And tie tomato vines, etc.

My butternuts were huge. I had 2 varieties, apparently, as one vine gave me about 3-4 lb the other gave me ones that were easily 6# each. Otherwise, yep, they will run a trellis. Mine went over the fence & down other side, heading across that yard. Yes, I had some fruit in the hanging position & only the smaller version. They did ok but had support from a board fence that was surrounded by wire fence on it. My vines were easily 30 ft long. I got a little over 140# of squash from 3 vines. They were volunteer vines from the empty hog pen.

Not only are they tasty, mine are still good at this time... One was getting a tiny pithy in area by seed, others were not at all, when I cooked 4 last week. That skin hardens very well. Wen you pick, use clippers and leave about 3" stem. It will dry and keep fruits longer. I've got about 50# left to use.

 

[Wannabefree]

I dehydrated a metric ton of squash one year and hid it in everything from spaghetti sauce to soups as a thickener and added flavor. So extra can be good...the kids never knew there were veggies in their pasta and meat loaf lol!

 

[Chic Rustler]

I got plenty of old t-shirts.


That trellis is 16 foot long and 50 inches high. I planted 25 seeds. How many should I keep?

 

[Britesea]

You can dehydrate squash....

 

[Chic Rustler]

I seen a video on making butternut pie. It's just like pumpkin pie.

I likes me some pumpkin pie!

 

[CrealCritter]

I got plenty of old t-shirts.


That trellis is 16 foot long and 50 inches high. I planted 25 seeds. How many should I keep?

I planted a 50' row with hills of 3 to 4 seeds spaced 24" apart last year. I had squash coming out my ears. It got so thick with leaf cover you had to dig through the leafs to find the squash.

 

[Wannabefree]

Mwahahahaaaa! I hate wasted food, and when one of them figured it out as I was about to run out, they actually requested that I keep doing it because they liked it

 

[baymule]

Video won’t play for me, on satellite internet, most of the time it sucks.

I’ve planted squash on a trellis before. It worked until the squash got too big and heavy and fell off.