Reply To: Growing squash vertically

[lizzy]

Hi I have sent you a couple photos of my U Kuris growing up the back of the garage. Lots of leaves not huge numbers of fruit but of good size. I did not realise they would root if they are on the ground. I think the garage roof – which is flat – gets very hot – they seem to avoid growing over the roof. I tied them onto canes until they got to the top then they clambered into the guttering – to my husbands horror! We are trying to persuade them to grow on the flat roof now – he has hauled them out of the gutter which was starting to buckle under the weight.