Trellised Squash
We harvested about 40 small winter squash yesterday. They were trellised using T-posts and concrete reinforcing grid. The trellis is discussed here.
The advantage of trellising is space saving. These squash only took up about 60 square feet of garden space, grown in one 10 foot raised bed.
Harvest of Smaller Squash
The big Australian Butter Squash in the back of the picture did fine, but it was really too big for the trellis. It should have been trailing along the ground with the Hubbard’s, large pumpkins and the monster Boston Marrow that we’ll be harvesting in the next couple days.
I was just looking at your earliest trellis blog. I was wondering how far apart your squash plants were and how far apart your 2 pieces of trellis were, and if you will make any changes for next year? Were these oriented north-south or did that seem to matter?
Smaller trellised squashed was spaced at about 12″. That seemed to work fine. For next season, I would place the two lines of trellis further apart in the bed, probably at 36″ It was difficult to get in between the trellis panels for weeding and tying up and threading the squash vines. Otherwise, I was quite happy with the set up.