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    I have a bed measuring 1 yard square I want to grow courgettes and pumpkins, one will be growing upwards, so what plant should I be growing upwards and also what variety would you recomend
    it may be a struggle to reach the top, but once your over the hill your problems start.

    Member of the Nutters Club but I think I am just there to make up the numbers

  • #2
    You can grow Tromboncino courgette upwards, they like to climb. Pumpkin lots of the smaller varieties will climb especially with encouragement. Things like jack be little ( I think ). Small sugar pumpkin will climb but there fruit will need support.

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    • #3
      Tromboncino - it has to be Tromboncino - and it will make Mrs rary laugh.


      ...............and you can enter https://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gr...ion_95762.html
      Last edited by veggiechicken; 24-03-2018, 08:26 PM.

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      • #4
        Ooh I'd nearly forgotten about that VC

        Yeah go on rary join VC, me & lots of other ( perfectly normal ) grapes growing a Tromboncino

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        • #5
          Thanks SP and VC I will give them a go, how many plants would I need and how high do they grow
          it may be a struggle to reach the top, but once your over the hill your problems start.

          Member of the Nutters Club but I think I am just there to make up the numbers

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          • #6
            As many as you like and as high as you like. There's no stopping a Tromboncino when its in the mood.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by veggiechicken View Post
              As many as you like and as high as you like. There's no stopping a Tromboncino when its in the mood.
              Because we don't live in sunny Wales rary your Tromboncino may not be quite as excited about growing up north. My Tromboncino didn't do great last year. But I'm giving it another go, as last year was flipping dreadful for all cucurbits up here. I have great faith in the Tromboncino coming good this year

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              • #8
                I have to agree, SP. Despite the wall-to-wall sunshine, last year was not a good year for the Tromboncinos.
                You won't believe this (or you may) but, alongside me, I have one of last year's Tromboncinos. He's a little shrivelled and going a bit limp but he brings back fond memories of summers past.

                I'll ask him if he'd mind a photo - he's a bit embarrassed about his wrinkles, you see.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Small pumpkin View Post
                  Because we don't live in sunny Wales rary your Tromboncino may not be quite as excited about growing up north. My Tromboncino didn't do great last year. But I'm giving it another go, as last year was flipping dreadful for all cucurbits up here. I have great faith in the Tromboncino coming good this year
                  that my biggest concern SP as it is more a Mediterranean plant would it grow here and VC when you mentioned wrinkles I started to panic a bit I thought you had accessed my laptop camera
                  it may be a struggle to reach the top, but once your over the hill your problems start.

                  Member of the Nutters Club but I think I am just there to make up the numbers

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                  • #10
                    Trev said "He's proud of his wrinkles and he know's he'll look a lot more crinkly when he's rary's age"

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                    • #11
                      I live near Hull and two years ago my trombs were romping away like mad. I didn't grow anything at all last year, but looking forward to getting them going this year!
                      https://nodigadventures.blogspot.com/

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                      • #12
                        I've got a couple of those cheap arches from Wilkos tied together - I was thinking of trying to grow butternut squash up them.
                        I'm not sure if the foliage and squash might be too heavy for them though.
                        Would it be a goer?
                        .......because you're thinking of putting the kettle on and making a pot of tea perhaps, you old weirdo. (Veggie Chicken - 25/01/18)

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by KevinM67 View Post
                          I've got a couple of those cheap arches from Wilkos tied together - I was thinking of trying to grow butternut squash up them.
                          I'm not sure if the foliage and squash might be too heavy for them though.
                          Would it be a goer?
                          I think the frame will cope with the weight (I've got one). The plant may need tieing in to encourage it to go upwards. Not all squash naturally go up, some just like to spread and creep like an oil slick! and I'm not sure which the butter nut is. The growing fruit will definitely need supporting.

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                          • #14
                            Firstly, every time I read this thread title, I'm convinced it says "When to grow up".

                            And secondly, how comes trombocinos are always 'he's? Apart from the obvious reason... But given that that the fruiting flowers are female, shouldn't they really be 'she's?

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                            • #15
                              Same here, Snoop, and I want to say "Never".

                              I've just checked Trev Tromboncino's birth certificate and he is definitely a boy. His parents lived in Southern Italy - Theo and Tessa Tromboncino. They were married at the little church of St Boncino in the mountains, and little Trev and all his brothers were created on St Boncino's Feast Day when giant salamis are eaten by the men of the village before performing the ritual act of homage to St Boncino, where they take their partners and...................sorry, I cannot reveal what happens then, for fear of pointy sticks.

                              I trust this answers your questions.
                              Last edited by veggiechicken; 28-03-2018, 10:02 AM.

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