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To: Marcella
I've got the pumpkin, cantaloupe and regular squash transplanted to the big garden now. I haven't figured out what to do with the trombone squash. I seem to recall that you said they are climbers. Is that correct?

/johnny

294 posted on 03/27/2014 1:12:49 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

If you leave T squash to grow the vine on the ground, remember it’s 10-12 ft. long, taking up big amount of space and the squash will form in a circle. If you let it climb and it’s a master of climbing with zillions of tentacles reaching out to attach to something (they are alive!, they are alive!), the squash will grow straight hanging down.

Those many tentacles will reach out into space, hunting something to grab, like other plants or a chair arm, anything they can find and it’s hell to try to get a tentacle off a wrong place. I still say, “they are alive!”.


298 posted on 03/27/2014 1:31:50 PM PDT by Marcella ((Prepping can save your life today.))
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