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Originally Posted by AlittleSalt
This year, we trying a bunch of different squash varieties. I haven't grown Butternut or Acorn squash before. I don't know if they do better sprawling on the ground or on a trellis/fence? I plan on planting around 15 plants of each. I'm guess on a trellis/fence?
The Butternut variety is Waltham.
The Acorn variety is Table Queen.
Unrelated - The other varieties of squash I'm growing this spring/summer are:
Seminole pumpkin/squash - from a Tomatovillian
Gialle Nostrale - from a Tomatovillian
Tatume - from a Tomatovillian
Early White Bush Scallop
Early Yellow Straightneck
Dark Green Zucchini
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I've grown the acorn and butternut ones you named and would never trellis them.
I had snow fence posts and strung netting down the length of those posts and did trellis small melons and cukes, and I think some long vine peas as well, but IMO squash that size do best inground,
I've grown the White Bush Scallop one as well, and would just forget about that one, not much taste to it, and there are other scalloped ones that have much better taste.
I thought I might have grown the Tatume one as well, just couldn't remember, but when I did a Google search nope, I didn't grow that one.
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=tatume+squash
For seveal years I had a 250 ft row that was ALL squash, both winter and summer varieties, and yes, I love squash, from the time we used to grow lots of it on the farm where I was raised.
Carolyn