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Zucs

I tried something last year (and have done so again this year to see if I
can validate last years  findings by replicated results-real scientific)
that worked well for me.

I devoted one 4 ft sq bed to squash. A Yellow Crookneck at each corner and
(2) Blue Hubbard plus (2) Butternut in a large hill at about the center of
the bed.

The Summer sq's at the corners overflowed the bed, and made it difficult to
mow the grass, while the winter sq's in the center were trained to grow up a
net trellis erected at the North edge of the bed. The Winter sq's maintained
a relatively low growth inside the bed and dutifully climbed up the netting
to the 6' height of the trellis and produced fine fruit. The Yellow
Crookneck was outstanding.

Both last year and this I started w/ new ground (Heavy black clay,ooze in
the wet season, rock hard in the dry, dug one shovel deep loaded w/ manure
with a 10.5 oz soup can, each,  of Rock Phosphate and Dolomite Lime.

I pretty much confine plantings of a "family" confined to one bed so as to
get a more complete rotation schedule. I am going to start converting to
4'X6' beds this fall with the plan of ending with up (eventually) with (5)
4x6 beds for annuals, a 4x4 bed dedicated to herbs (2) 39"x150" (ID)
asparagus beds, including 52 each 5"x6" "planters" from the holes in the
concrete blocks.

This will give me a 5 yr rotation of each family of annual veggies, and the
capability of rotating the plantings in the holes in the blocks, which are
ideal for strawberries, carrots, gr. onions, lettuce, spinach. . . . . . . .
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