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Your pics are so beauiful!

I have yellow squash and also some winter acorn squash plants, and I think I planted them too close together because they will soon be in danger of crowding each other out.

So please tell me about the squash on trellises. Do you have to tie them with strips of cloth or some such thing, or do they twine up on their own like pole beans?

I'm kind of afraid of the branches snapping off or being injured if I try to manipulate them too much. Your advice?

The squash will go up the trellis on their own IF you get them started early on, which isn't hard to do at all. My butternut squash was really stubborn, but finally got the idea of the trellis.

You do have to handle the vines carefully because, as you know, the stems of the leaves are hollow and break easily. The vines are tough enough and hard to damage and the squash themselves have such strong stems that you don't have to worry about them at all.

I also grow canteloupes on a trellis and I'd be willing to bet that those small watermelons would work as well. My yellow squash is more of a bush, so they are not on a trellis. Same with the zucchini.

When it is necessary to tie a vine to the trellis, I use a green velcro on a roll that you can cut to the length you need. Made for plants, it is very strong and re-useable too. I use it to tie my tomatoes and their peppers to their stakes.

So please tell me about the squash on trellises.

Talk to JustaDumbBlonde about squash on trellises. She's the expert and will probably post some pictures. In fact she has soem picuters of her farm in the first 50 posts on this thread.