Know of a Bush Variety of Winter Squash?

[Winnie]

Does anyone know of a bush or semi bush variety of winter squash? I've realised the vine type are just too big for my little garden. They've taken over!

[crashdive123]

Winnie - a few listed here are the bush/semi-bush variety. I have not tried them, so can't give a review. http://urbanext.illinois.edu/veggies/wsquash.cfm

[Winnie]

Thanks Crash, I'll check the varieties out. There's bound to be reviews of the various varieties.

[Chris]

Your garden? Mine has taken over my lawn. I guess I get to mow less. This is good.

[SARKY]

Have you tried going vertical with the vines?

[Rick]

Doesn't do well vertically. I had some that hitchhiked across the garden last year and grabbed onto the fence I use for the green beans. The squash split pretty bad because they are so heavy.

[SARKY]

I've used netting (a squash hammock if you will) to support the growing squash (blue Hubbard) and have had no problems.

[Winnie]

That's a possibility, Sarky.

[Rick]

That would probably work. i like that idea, too.

[LowKey]

Rick, you could use your thong. But you'd have to take it off first.

When I was over in England I visited The Lost Gardens of Heligan. They had a melon house there, a greenhouse where the melon vines grew on bamboo stakes wired hanging down from the glass. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fvDlITEOHc...600/melons.jpg
The melons hung in mesh hammocks and grew to quite a good size.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fvDlITEOHc...00-h/melon.jpg
In the greenhouse they had to be hand pollinated though.

Above images are from the Heligan blogspot.

That garden was quite amazing. A period 1800s kitchen garden as well as the outer pleasure grounds. So much information lost when most of the great English gardens were abandoned by their keepers to fight in World War I . When doing the restoration they found names of the gardeners scrawled on the walls in the Thunder Box (gardeners loo). They later found almost all of those names on WWI memorials in the 4 surrounding towns. They are trying to bring it back. Hit or miss. The best story is the manure-heated pineapple pit. It took them nearly 10 years to figure it out but they finally did. Queen Elizabeth got the second pineapple produced. The gardeners ate the first one to be sure it didn't taste like horsesh*t. LOL.

[oldtrap59]

I have planted and had some good luck with the bush acorn varities. Also with the idea of going vertical. I always end up buying bags of onions after the garden grown run out. We buy them by the bag and then use the mesh bags to hold up our melons that we grow on a fence. Don't knnow why that wouldn't work for the larger type squash. Might try it anyway.

Sorry to be redundent. I didn't read all the posts and missed Low Keys post.

oldtrap

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