3 smart ways to fit winter squash into your garden
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- Winter squash are an important crop for us but we don't want the large plants to take up the precious space in our raised beds. Find out in this video how we fit them into our garden!
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I love the compost pile idea!!! What a great way to use otherwise empty space and without having to use additional fertilizers!
Thanks, Emily!
Very smart. This year my plants are encircling my garage. 😮
Greetings from Tacoma, WA! Brilliant idea growing them on the compost bin with the cardboard top. I have always grown my butternut squash and other winter squashes on a trellis since my urban garden is very limited, but they need a "hammock" to support the fruit when they grow too big on the vine. Looking forward to the follow up harvest video in autumn. Cheers!
My BiL had his allotment just a few hundred meters from the local city police horse stables. He barrowed up a huge mound to his place and planted squash on top. Grew really well.
Thanks for sharing.
Last year we had a volunteer squash pop up behind our beefsteak tomatoes. At first we thought each other had planted it, only realising later it was unintentional. We let it go - not really sure what it was. It trained itself up the fence, and all though summer just covered the fence with green. When we started clearing out the toms, we found about 6 very big butternuts.
We just eat the last of the butternut and chickpea curry to celebrate the birth of my partners grand daughter.
That's brilliant! And it's best to let manure compost for a year, so next year he had superb compost too!
You are smart trying so many different varieties of vegetables to see what works best in your climate. I have family in Florida they said tomatoes don't grow well in Florida so I looked up and told them they need to grow the Everglades tomato that is suited for Florida instead of being discouraged by growing a variety that didn't do well
That's something most people don't realize. one reason we have many varieties of the same crop is that they have been developed for different climates. People look at the pictures and choose what looks good. then are disappointed when it doesn't work.
@@ecocentrichomestead6783 Agree with what you said but if a crop doesn't grow I am disappointed but it doesn't stop me from attempting to grow it because the weather conditions in my country can vary year to year. In a dry summer cauliflower will fail but if we have a wet summer it may do better and it may also do well when it is a mixed summer.
@@davidthescottishvegan yes. I try to grow melons! I have even gotten some small melons to ripen. I don't make any plans to harvest melons.
Tomatoes, now, my climate is to cold for most. So I researched and found 8 varieties that might do well here.
I am still researching other fruits and vegetables as well.
u are easy on the eyes Vera and inspirational. happy gardening
Thank you, Chris :)
Great ideas! Thank you for sharing. I've been thinking about how to fit my winter squash seedlings into my limited garden space, so this was very helpful.
I'm eager to see your winter squash harvest!
How are these stored to ensure they are preserved through until spring?
You are a wealth of knowledge!
Thanks, Vera!
Hi Edward, I hope to film a video about our winter squash harvest (once again a really good one!) in the coming weeks. We cure them on the windowsill and then store them in crates in an unheated bedroom. Most varieties keep easily until next spring
Never tried winter squashes but maybe I will next year. Thanks for the video!
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!
I'm growing my squash between my fruit trees this year. It's funny, I haven't had much luck with growing Butternut squash but Red Kuri Hubbard does just fine. Good think too, I like them. I like your suggestion about growing on the compost bin.
Squash vines drop spikes every few feet that draw nutrients to feed the vine/plant as it spreads, so ground contact of the vine is something to concider
Such a great idea green squash in compost heap and under cardboard! Thanks for sharing👍
I'm glad it was inspiring! The two plants on the compost heap are already bigger than those planted in the ground!
This video is EXACTLY what I was looking for, as I was concerned about A) having waited until the last of May to get my acorn squash in the ground, and B) having planted them in last year's compost heap. This gives me hope! (And as I write this, they are all going strong.)
My first go at growing these last season was derailed by what looks like a pretty short growing season. I’m gonna have to grow seedlings earlier and plant out pretty enormous “seedlings”. I can only hope to grow smallies like butternut. Last season they hadn’t ripened properly before the first frost and were just pale and tasteless. I hope yours go really well - they are delicious 😋
Great video Vera. I am using your forest garden cardboard and pumpkin idea this year - September / October for us in Victoria, Australian. I love that you can get a yield and suppress perennial weeds at the same time.
That's great to hear, Donna! Will you please update me later? I'd love to hear how it works in your climate! You're probably dealing with different weeds too
Brilliant ideas! I'm always trying to find more room for winter squash!
I'm glad my video helped! There are so many excellent winter squash varieties to grow!
Great tips on growing squash. Growing in the compost pile is a great idea. I too have a bin system where I rotate through 3 bins. Thank you for sharing.
Compost heap? Brilliant:)
Thanks! I've been doing this for years and it works so well!
Thank you! I was just pondering how I could grow some winter squash in my smallish garden after last year's experiment with them did not work out so well.
I'm so glad my video was well timed for you :)
I got a 26lb pumpkin from a variety that was said to produce pumpkins up to 22lbs by planting it at the base of my compost bin.
#3 oh yeah! that's what I can do! I was trying to figure something out because I have 8 varieties I want to space out so I can save seeds.
Thanks for the video!
I'm glad you liked it! Be careful though if you want to save seed - they can cross-pollinate over quite some distance
@@GrownToCook My view on saving seed is that, if separated by about 50 feet with distractions/obstructions between, the chance of cross pollination is very low. Since I'm just saving for myself or giveaway, if and when cross pollination does occur, I can just discard the effected seed lot. No harm done.
Hi Vera, thanks for yet another great video. I am currently reading your book Tuin smakelijk and loving it!
I tried to grow winter squash on our compost heap this year but the slugs keep decapitating the young plants. And there are so many slugs in that compostheap! Don't you have that problem?
Thanks Pauline, so nice to hear! Actually: we do have a slug problem on the compost heap this year too! I put a bit of cocoa shells (cacaodoppen) around the plants and that seems to help
@@GrownToCook I will try the cocoa shells, thanks for the tip!
Damn girl!! The worms in that compost must be something!! LOL!!
Brilliant idea! Thank you, Vera!
Cool!
That looks like my yard with cardboard and stepping stones. It was worth it!
I'm trying the Honeynut this year, very interested in your results at the end of the season!
We grew Honeynut last year too, it was not super productive though the fruits are very good and a convenient size for small households. But I'm giving it another chance because one year does not say everything!
I wish I had a couple of gigantic compost piles like that! I do surface composting, which has lots of benefits, but th drawback is, of course, not having the piles
Surface composting is a great way to do it too! We do it a bit, by leaving some plant remains behind in teh garden. But we also compost some more bulky material from our backyard, so enough to fill the bins :)
Great tips - I plan on growing up trellis next year, when our landscaping work is finished. This year I'm trialling a fourth way - in a large container, using a suitable bushy variety (Amoro F1 - a red kuri type). I had earmarked the pot to hold a shrub rose, but that won't arrive until November so the squash will be a temporary tenant until then!
I have not tried growing squash in containers but a bushy variety would certainly be best! Good luck, hope you get a nice harvest!
@@GrownToCook Thank you!
Thanks for sharing. Which video demonstrates your process of using cardboard to eradicate weeds?
Here's the video on clearance mulch: ruclips.net/video/WPuSKmWnCks/видео.html
Thank you for this video! Much needed! Where did young get the trellis?
Thank you, Rachel! We made the trellis ourselves following this brilliant tutorial by Patrick Dolan: ruclips.net/video/9RPLtYpWkg8/видео.html It's super sturdy and we use it for all kinds of vertical crops!
@@GrownToCook thank you! I ended up building 5 of these for my garden. I appreciate the tip!
Where are you located..im in washington and I enjoy your idea
I wanted to plant them in the compost heap. But my seeds did not germinate at all, must have been old ...
Will the squash cross pollinate
Yes, but that is only a problem if you want to save seed of a particular variety. Ik has no influence on the fruits in the first season
Ahoj!
Where do you get that trellis? I've seen similar in US videos but can't find them in the UK
As Sheryl said! We made them ourselves following this tutorial with materials from the builders yard: ruclips.net/video/9RPLtYpWkg8/видео.html
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