What climbing vegetables are there?

**Nicos** · 18-05-2014, 07:27 AM

You can train some varieties of squash up it if you support the weight of the squash.
Also melons( you never know, if you are sheltered and we have another hot summer!)

**Bren In Pots** · 18-05-2014, 07:27 AM

I can only think of courgettes, pumpkins, squashes and cucumbers.

**Nicos** · 18-05-2014, 07:29 AM

When you say beans....do you mean runners?....there are also climbing varieties of a French and Borlotti beans.

**Bill HH** · 18-05-2014, 07:32 AM

Yup, outdoor cucumbers, cordon tomatoes, melons, a trained fruit tree the list is endless. The only problem with a triangle or similar construction is that the plants on one side tend to keep the sun off the others. It would also need to be a minimum of 6feet high for most climbing plants and quite wide for a fruit tree.

**Scarlet** · 18-05-2014, 07:33 AM

Fat Baby achocha, not that you would want to grow many of them. As Nicosia has said, there's loads of varieties of beans, some for drying or eating fresh.

**Scarlet** · 18-05-2014, 07:37 AM

Originally posted by Bill HH View Post

The only problem with a triangle or similar construction is that the plants on one side tend to keep the sun off the others.

Yes, I grow tromba l'albenga a squash, which can grow very large. Mine are trained onto metal fencing, I don't think triangle would be suitable.

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