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RE: Speaking of Trellises

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Well, it would have worked if the Squash was some kind of normal squash!
I'm just not used to 16 ft of squash! They came in a package marked
"Compact"....

I have done squash on various supports for years. I found that the major
criteria is strength, followed closely by access.

Squash get heavy, and when the leaves are wet, they get -VERY- heavy. I use
6 ft 1x2s and buried 2 ft of them and that was barely enough.  I ended up
using wire to hold them together in that little triangle shape
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I also found that if I used regular trellis, the squash were always growing
on the most inconvenient side. That's why I went to poles, it lets the
leaves and flowers grow without squashing them(no pun intended), and I can
get to all sides of it.


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Melissa McCarthy [M*@a2zwebdesigns.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 21, 1999 4:29 AM
> To: sqft@listbot.com
> Subject: Re: Speaking of Trellises
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> Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
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> >
> > Somebody asked me how my staked squash was doing, and I
> postponed responding
> > until I put up some pictures... well I still haven't put up the
> pictures,
> > but the squash grew all the way up the 4 ft of exposed stake,
> grew back down
> > to the ground, grew four ft over to the fence, and is now half way up my
> > neighbors fence. All in all about 16 ft of Yellow Squash.
>
> So do you recommend the trellis for squash or not? Is this the first
> time you have trellised them? I plan on doign that with my cukes and
> squash if needed, but I wasn't sure how it would work..... and if
> mine end up in the neighbor lady's yard, we'll have a REAL
> problem..... maybe i need LOTS of trellises!
>
> Missi
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> Melissa McCarthy
> a2z Web Designs
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