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kath · June 22, 2014

I just meant that I had much more trouble trying to train squash plants on a trellis. The heavy fruits could still be attached to a strong trellis but they had thicker and more brittle vines than the cukes and small melons that I still trellis; their leaves, being larger, sustained more damage because of getting stuck in the trellis; and they just seemed determined to resist my attempts to keep them off the ground. I grow Butterbush because of its relatively shorter vines.

For the future, you might want to try some bush cucumber varieties.

June 22, 2014	#5
kath Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: zone 6b, PA Posts: 5,664	I just meant that I had much more trouble trying to train squash plants on a trellis. The heavy fruits could still be attached to a strong trellis but they had thicker and more brittle vines than the cukes and small melons that I still trellis; their leaves, being larger, sustained more damage because of getting stuck in the trellis; and they just seemed determined to resist my attempts to keep them off the ground. I grow Butterbush because of its relatively shorter vines. For the future, you might want to try some bush cucumber varieties.