[prakash_mib]

not seriously bothered about saving for seeds. I have questions for growing.
I am trying to grow cues, bottle gourd, snake gourd and bitter melon. considering all are squash varieties
1. can they go in the plot (squeezed somewhere in half a plot we have) and grow/produce in harmony?
2. will they be different in producing fruits than the standalone ones? (assuming there will be cross pollination)
3. The bottle gourd is climbing variety and as i dont have any space, can it creep around the sweetcorn patch.
4. OH brought an Indian cue variety plant from the local garden centre, can they go with the other cue variety we grow.

[chimaera]

I think those are all different species, rather than forms from the C. pepo/maxima complex (almost all pumpkins, courgettes etc) that are so prone to interbreeding and so may not interbreed very much if at all. They presumably all need the same things (lots of food and water) and as long as one does not smother another, I see no reason why they can't live together. I think all naturally climb to some extent, go given the chance they all will try (if the fruit are not too heavy).

Charlie

[prakash_mib]

thanks charlie. very valuable advice. seeing by your recent posts on squash i would defenitely propose squash expert/god title for you to the mods.
mods???