[A. Fallowfield]

The Chinese lady two plots along gave me some spaghetti squash seeds, two sorts, the usual yellow oval variety and huge green ones that also have the name shark fin squash.
I had a look at her frame and constructed one from recycled bits; the big squashes are very heavy!
Hers:

Mine:

[mumofstig]

What actually holds the squash up in the air, cos the canes don't look near enough together to do the job 

[A. Fallowfield]

What actually holds the squash up in the air, cos the canes don't look near enough together to do the job 

You may well be right, but when I saw them growing they were just hanging unsupported.from what would be the centre bit on my frame!
Last year they escaped up a nearby tree and produced squashes!

[Paul Plots]

It looks burglar proof to me... I bet none of the fruit near the inside was swiped.

I sometimes encourage my trailing butternut squash to share the bean frame - this seems to work well enough. 

I wish you luck with your construction. Let us know how you get on. 

[A. Fallowfield]

It looks burglar proof to me... I bet none of the fruit near the inside was swiped.

I sometimes encourage my trailing butternut squash to share the bean frame - this seems to work well enough. 

I wish you luck with your construction. Let us know how you get on. 

Someone did swipe all the big squashes from the Chinese families two frames, and it had to be an inside job by someone with a car on the plots (eight foot fence) and market trader contacts. That narrowed it down to one, anyone got a stealth camera?

[Paul Plots]

It looks burglar proof to me... I bet none of the fruit near the inside was swiped.

I sometimes encourage my trailing butternut squash to share the bean frame - this seems to work well enough. 

I wish you luck with your construction. Let us know how you get on. 

Someone did swipe all the big squashes from the Chinese families two frames, and it had to be an inside job by someone with a car on the plots (eight foot fence) and market trader contacts. That narrowed it down to one, anyone got a stealth camera?

I imagine squash would climb equally well up barbed-wire as strings. But you'd need to put a sign up (in Welsh) to remind people to take care.  I, of course, did not suggest doing such a thing! 

[noshed]

One of mine got up on the greenhouse roof to have its squashes

[rubyrose]

Hi   this is only our second year growing veg and i did grow cobnut and festival squashes last year but i just let them run on the ground.  Should they be grown up a frame? is it better to grow them up a frame? if anyone would like to give me advice please

[mumofstig]

mine are quite happy to grow on the goround, but they did try to grow up the hedge as well

[Paul Plots]

Hi   this is only our second year growing veg and i did grow cobnut and festival squashes last year but i just let them run on the ground.  Should they be grown up a frame? is it better to grow them up a frame? if anyone would like to give me advice please

Ground or frame its all the same......  People who use frames to grow them on are often aiming to save ground space for other crops I suspect.   

[A. Fallowfield]

Hi   this is only our second year growing veg and i did grow cobnut and festival squashes last year but i just let them run on the ground.  Should they be grown up a frame? is it better to grow them up a frame? if anyone would like to give me advice please

Ground or frame its all the same......  People who use frames to grow them on are often aiming to save ground space for other crops I suspect.   

This is true, one of the reasons I rarely grow courgettes, it's easier to take your neighbours glut when offered!

[Paul Plots]

Hi   this is only our second year growing veg and i did grow cobnut and festival squashes last year but i just let them run on the ground.  Should they be grown up a frame? is it better to grow them up a frame? if anyone would like to give me advice please

Ground or frame its all the same......  People who use frames to grow them on are often aiming to save ground space for other crops I suspect.   

This is true, one of the reasons I rarely grow courgettes, it's easier to take your neighbours glut when offered!

You may be very short of them if your neighbours decides to rebalance the crops that they grow 

[Trillium]

My squash squeezed through the mesh floor of the pigeon coop and tried to grow squash in there. The pigeons had other ideas