How to Grow Squash Vertical

[@Iliketopickflowers]

I'm growing squash vertically for the first time. We recycled my husband's discarded rebar and other materials from his concrete jobs. He has built multiple frames and a large A frame for the entrance of the garden. Also have used these materials to protect peas and beans when sprouting from the birds. Thank you for all of information over the last few years! The education you have provided all of us will last a lifetime. You have made my garden produce more. Tuck holds a special place in our hearts❤🧡💛💚💙💜😊

[@TweakswithTweek]

James, you inspire and encourage me to be a better gardener. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, and Tuck, with us. I learn so much from every episode. Grateful for you both 😊

[@kabodick]

Yes!! He is so knowledgeable. And, I just love his enthusiasm. One my favorite KZbin gardening channels to watch. Plus, there’s ❤Tuck❤…

[@canhope1821]

I did this last year with a lot of success. One note, I was told to prune out all leaves below any fruit or flowers as it grows. I did have to go out almost daily to tie up new growth.

[@jennyd3440]

I love this video. Last year I grew a ton of squash. I was harvesting 40-50 lbs every few days for 3 months and giving them away to friends, family, and neighbors. It felt nice to share the abundance. This year the bugs killed everything. I'm not giving up. I started over and now doing BT injections, wrapping foil on the base, and spraying with Surround kaolin clay. Thanks for the awesome gardening tips. Your channel is my favorite for gardening. ❤ to Tuck! He's cute.

[@divin-inarizona7125]

Thank you for this wonderful information. Tuck ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@elizabethsmail284]

I’m so happy I found your videos. I live in NJ too. It helps having someone from the area.

[@user-dq9rr9mv3f]

Me 2!!!

[@SonicaLuda]

Same! It was through his videos that I figured out what I could grow here too and how to do it 😊.

[@thedivaang]

Same! Jersey gardeners LET'S GOOOOOO!

[@elasmith4916]

Brilliant idea, less slug damage and rotting growing off the ground too 😁

[@dartagnantaft5918]

This has been very helpful. I'm growing squash for the first time this year. I have recently discovered that I love butternut squash and our family loves fried zucchini, so im hoping to grow a bunch of them. Thank you for your time to help the rest of us learn.

[@Kel0027]

Firstly, Hi Tuck, cutie little cucumber eater! I am loving your videos. Deer got my cucumbers, Mr. Stripey tomato, strawberries. I'm investing in chicken wire. Lol. My squash are doing great though!!!! Thank you for this, and all your videos. I'm about to go do my nightly check up on my patio garden with my American Bombay cat. She's a patio panther. Love you and Tuck ❤

[@happyheartgardening]

I had always wondered why some of my squash would shrivel up and fall off. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, James! Give Tuck love..❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤💘💘💘💘❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@leothehunkable]

My partner and I started watching you a few weeks ago. We love your videos and our favorite part is Tuck.

[@hidekodufton5820]

Tucker and you are such a great team!!

[@caspergenaro1495]

You are such a suck-up to your sweet little dog with all that praise, sounds just like me. I love that your puppy loves cucumbers, that's awesome. I'm glad there was a cameo appearance. 💙💙💙

[@southsidecarly7427]

These are great tips James! Love for Tuckey❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@LovePeacocks-um3dp]

Yes, I love growing vertically. Never knew about it until I started watching your videos.

[@jB-ow5qi]

Very informative video. Thank you. Tuck he’s all business as a master gardener, he’s making sure the cucumbers taste right! Love those little ears ❤!

[@Pachinko1]

Great idea to grow vertically. My squash last season died from fungal issues early. Next season I will try the vertical grow, thank you James

[@4Rascals321]

Always fascinating information and love to see the little king ! ❤❤❤ 's for Tuck!

[@Homesowingt73]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤you really got this growing stuff down. Your plants are so healthy and beautiful ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@americusgill403]

Thank you for all the information. The squash bugs just hit our squash. I used diatomaceous earth.

[@Steph_in_the_Garden]

Awesome video! I took all you advice and currently growing romenesco, white patty pan and yellow custard squash in containers with tomato cages. Working out beautifully! Thanks for all the tips and tricks! Worth their weight in gold!

[@davidcraft4919]

You've been such an inspiration to me, James! Thanks for sharing with us! I raised my squash and zucchini vertically this year because I was space limited, and have had amazing results!

[@CynthiaJKress]

Awe, Baby Boss. Love you!❤❤🤗 Wonderful info. Thanks James! You really ROCK in the garden!! ❤❤❤

[@gilliandarby]

Thanks James and Tuck! Last year I started burying parts of my squash vines proactively, a couple weeks before the squash vine borer arrives in my area - this is a tip I saw in one of your videos. It really helped, I managed to save most of the plants even though the borers got to them.

[@andreaouderkerken5664]

Thank you for sharing all your gardening experiences with us. You are an inspiration. I have learned so much.

[@Ravenelvenlady]

💖💖💖💖💖💖 For Tuck! And thanks for another great video.🤗🌱🌿💕💖

[@debravanhorn2392]

Your plants look amazingly beautiful, and your advice is so appreciated!! Thank you!!!

[@queen.mama.slots.5977]

Thank You 🙏 to you and Tuck for all the incredible gardening 🧑🏽‍🌾 tips. ❤

[@steev927]

"Just like that..." haha! James, you were so low-key and clinical about the plant husbandry, kudos! Much love from North Jerz.

[@signbarn3233]

I enjoy seeing your videos so much. Thank you being such a good dad to Tuck!

[@joshmartinez3721]

Love watching your videos brother. You inspire me to keep growing. Love the energy. Letsss goooo!!

[@laddieokelley6095]

Tuck is precious. My smooth fox terrier was on prednisone as a senior . . . I had her for 17 years. She ate well on fresh veggies cooked with her chicken and beef in broth. My tatume vines are trailing and huge. They do not naturally climb, but I think I will try training them on cattle panels.

[@christophergetchell6490]

Thank you for giving me the idea to grow my "bush habit" summer squashes and my acorn squash vertically! I'm a little north of you on the eastern seaboard, but I'm having quite good year with the squash and melon plants despite the cucumber beetles! I think they're mostly flocking to the giant pumpkin I planted as a trap crop!

[@lorrytrujilloperezphd]

Thank you! Squash has been the bane of my existence. My plants grow beautifully, I get one fruit and then the vine borers get them. Grrrrr. But I'm not giving up! Thanks for the perfect timing of this video and the great information. Hey to Tuck!

[@toniatalley1977]

Tuck is such a good and precious little guy!!! Good job Tuck!!! Great video❤❤❤❤❤

[@indraawai5183]

Great information. Thank you for sharing. The Boss looks healthy and great ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@James-of-all]

Tuck!❤❤❤❤❤ thank you for all the wonderful gardening tips, I don't have as much time as you do to focus on my garden but your tips are a huge help

[@SarahBahou]

The squash borer got mine but im going to plant some more since I'm in Houston. I should have enough time... this is my first time and I appreciate you & Tuck helping me

[@dbxgraphics]

Been growing my Squash vertically last year too with success. It worked better for me outside than in the polytunnel.

[@Foster-dog-mom]

❤❤❤❤❤❤Tuck! I have learned so much from your videos James! I’ve actually tried some different plants from my usual ones this season after watching you. I’m up the coastline quite a bit from you in Newfoundland Canada. Zone 4 but still get so much from you. Keep doing what you do! Your food forest is a small Paradise!😊

[@FATHERCHY]

Sup brother! Always look forward to your videos.

[@ChenniferQuabo]

Hi James and Tuck👐 Was inspired by your videos guyz. I started watching a couple of weeks ago and im so happy i found your videos. The tips are really helpful to me even when I live in a hotter country here in the Philippines. Thanks James esp to Tuckey! Such a cutie!❤

[@Sistaagnes]

Your garden is AMAZING! The Gardening Channel is so informative, entertaining, love Tuck! I have a question, how do you store the massive overflow of your ABUNDANT garden? What is your secret for storing your personal harvest?

[@tamykowhite2051]

Love Tuck❤❤❤❤❤ James, your videos are very inspiring. I live in anchorage, Alaska. Our growing season is very different, but I am inspired by you to have a food forest.

[@YDPleasanton]

Tuck is the cutest! ❤❤❤

[@brettfoster6786]

Great job. I know this is not a cooking channel but the male flowers are great cooked in butter and a little garlic 🧄. I going to try this vertical method 👍🇺🇸

[@Tiffany_grace]

Love these videos 😊

[@erinbigelow1628]

Hello to sweet Mr. Tuck! Love ya little buddy ❤❤❤

[@pamelavance648]

Love these videos and energy

[@RavenNMonster]

The Millennial Gardener just put out a video contradicting a lot of what you're teaching. I definitely recommend checking it out for a different perspective. ❤❤❤❤ Tuck!

[@trixiebme]

Absolutely love "all" your video's!!!

[@Stapletonhomestread_Ohio]

If you take hot peppers and make a juice from them you can spray your plants that get bugs on them and it keeps the bugs off your plants ❤

[@beckymartinez9926]

Thank you for sharing this information. I grow pattypan the same way but last year it outgrew my stake. This year…a longer stake! 😊

[@terridee9637]

Love little Tuck. The King

[@matthewsottile8877]

Another winner video, squash issues get squashed!

[@spottedsparrowgardens9999]

Awesome!! The bugs have started on my squash and i have work to do. I have some weird yellow fuzzy bugs idk what they are. And squash bugs and borers of course. Thank you!

[@MoichiAnaiNin]

I was eager to try this method this year, but after a few warm days in April the weather turned around. Temperatures were under 12 degrees for most of May and June with no sunlight. The zucchini plants are still alive, but I didn't see the same explosive growth that James showed in the video 🙁. A few flowers and one 2 inch fruit. Guess I'll have to try again next year 😅.

[@VincentVonDudler]

8:23 - That's why he's the young king! ❤❤❤

[@wingmok122]

Learned a lot from you!! Thank you!

[@Rurallifevlogs68]

I’m amazed that I am here watching your videos

[@jsimp4050]

I’m doing my zucchini this way. I had a bit of an aphid problem and am hoping now that that’s under control I’ll get more fruiting.

[@Diana-pk3pe]

Wonderful information - squash is such an abundant plant. I am growing spaghetti squash - any tips other than the winter squash that you mentioned would be helpful. Great video! Luv Tuck! I use Food Grade Diatomaceous Earth around the plants. It works like magic for keeping the creepy crawlees away.

[@marinaross6082]

I'm so happy I found you .

[@smas3256]

Definitely the WAY TO GROW. Let's go.

[@lesliesnell7613]

All the love to the man in charge Tuck❤❤❤❤❤

[@dianalieskovsky8729]

❤❤❤ love Tuck. Thanks for the great information

[@carolduvall111]

Awesome idea and instruction

[@aheartysliceofmommylife4949]

The custard squash looks so pretty. Do you cook it any special way, maybe stuffing it?

[@lisamillen8628]

This is what I've been doing for a few years. Next year I'm getting taller stakes. 🙂

[@eugenececcano2853]

Love the young King....❤❤❤❤

[@haleymueller2747]

Hi James and Tuck, Do you know if growing vertical works for winter squash? I really enjoy growing butter cup and butternut squash and when it happens to climb my garden fence the fruit gets fist sized, then dies and falls off. I also met an old farmer that told me that growing winter squash vertically doesn’t work because of what I just described. Do you have any insights? Thanks and keep growing 😊

[@LovePeacocks-um3dp]

Tuck needs some ranch dressing with that cucumber 😁

[@Sally-v6f]

True lol ranch is great on anything 👍

[@elizabethsimurdiak6533]

I love your enthusiam!

[@sherrylingenfelter8991]

lol I’m seriously going to the neighbor’s with squash today. I have a zucchini who is an over achiever. 😂😅🤣🐕💙💙💙 I let mine flop over the side too. Planting new squash today and some of those dragon tongue beans.

[@tlmiam1]

❤❤❤ love tuck and James ❤❤❤

[@anitahernandez1207]

❤❤❤👑🐶 Cuteness overload

[@katiewinn5468]

Love your videos (and Tuck❤). Any suggestions for pickling cucumbers that have an abundance of male flowers but only a couple of females? The female flowers are closed as if they already bloomed.

[@lisafahrner8257]

Great information and video!!

[@zachshott7833]

Just found vine borers in all but one of my zucchini plants. They hadnt been producing and i couldnt figure out why untill i found the holes. I did try the method of cutting out the larve and trying to save one of the plants, but luckily i had a second round of zucchini and yellow squash already stared so i just tore out the remaining damaged plants. Hooefully i can keep the vine borers at bay for round 2

[@decyattysyachpchyol]

❤ Tuck. Squash bugs having orgies on my plants but I keep spraying. Not when 🐝 are there though.

[@gail7998]

😂😂 orgies. I catch wirh emy gloved hand and put them in a sm bucket with dishsoap

[@gail7998]

Sorry, meant that I catch them and put them in soapy water

[@gardeningwithtash2485]

grasshoppers decimated some of mine but its been hot so i wonder if my squash arent flowering yet because of excessive heat.

[@jeweleagle613]

Gotta gently move the squash plant! I've snapped vines off moving them vertically!

[@ronniebrace2917]

Helpful thanks! Hey Tuck❤❤❤

[@bobby350z]

Love seeing Tuck.

[@colleenpierce9626]

Too cloudy and rainy, squash tiny and not getting bigger, now I know why, thanks.

[@angelaschettino1327]

Thx for this video. If you cut the side shoots it will leave an opening. Can that promote more bugs getting in the plant?

[@normarosado5697]

❤❤❤ for Tuck, Tuck for President! 😂

[@solanisomeni]

Hi James, ☺ My choice of Zucchini over here in Sweden, is "Black Beauty" and the yellow long summer squash. Can't remember the name right now. Those have been the ones that have produced best in our colder, wetter and shorter climate/season. My question is... Is the Black Beauty Zucchini a vine squash or is it a bush squash? I would love to be able to tie them up, since they grow to be so big. Summer squash plants don't get as big so, I don't really feel that they get "in the way" but, if I can tie them up too, it would mean I can get the fruits off of the ground. I always leave 1 or 2 Zucchini's and summer squash on the plant after July to ripen fully, so that I can collect seeds. First year I did that, I realized that they had cross pollinated, meaning when I planted those seeds, the crop I got the following year, was a mix between the both. 😳😂 They still tasted good and I still save one seed squash from those plants each year, so now, 3 yrs. later, I have what I'd call a "stable" unknown type of squash that is quite delicious. My other pure Black Beauty and summer squash plants that I also save seeds from, I am out there pollinating those flowers, with the RIGHT type and put a fine mesh net bag over the whole flower/baby squash, until the flower has wilted and fallen off. Just so they don't get pollinated by a different variety. Tuck seems to be a real sweetheart. A big dog in a little body. ❤

[@garfielda34]

Thanks for the squash tips! ❤❤❤❤ For Tuck!

[@deineadam2240]

I'll try that next year. Tried it with tomato cages this year and planted 4 weeks ago so too late to try this

[@thess888]

I have a couple of scallop squashes and zucchini in my backyard garden but haven’t had a successful harvest because something has been eating the male flowers. And the ones that I was able to pollinate gets eaten by rabbits. 😢 I have them wrapped with plastic cages now. Hopefully I get a few harvest before the season ends.

[@Akamstyle]

Good afternoon. Would you please show us the products you use for the zucchini and the yellow squash? Like showing us the name of the products from start it with? 🙏

[@angiewick169]

Do you have a link to the clay product you spray on your plants?

[@jillobrien4680]

James, what is the name of the cord you use to tie up your plants? And can we determine that squash plant is viney based on how it grows? Great instruction! Thx.

[@jillobrien4680]

Got it…paracord!

[@annettegruber4844]

❤❤❤ Tuck. Thanks for the video James.

[@robyaksich1944]

Greetings from northeast NM, where the Rockies meet the Great Plains, and the friggin' wind blows all the time. I tried to grow squash and pumpkins vertically, but the wind and bone-dry humidity here (at least outside of monsoon season) really inhibited growth and production (even with a wall for protection). A friend of mine grows his semi-vertically from a sort of "cave," meaning he builds a raised bed vertical supports on which he attached wind barrier/shade cloth. He bends a piece of cattle panel into an short arch inside this "cave," and the squash/pumpkins/cucumbers, etc, grow on it within the confines of this wind/sun barrier. They seem to do well, but I don't know if I want to invest that much work. Anyone else in the Southwest/Mountain West have any luck?

[@michellep1592]

Hello James! Wondering what time of the day is it safe to spray with kaolin clay? Will it burn the plant if done in full sun? I appreciate your content you are so knowledgeable!!

[@KarenCampbell-qh1xt]

I’m in the desert and I have squash bugs that look white to grey.. I had tons of squash until they came. Took the plants out even thought they were still healthy. I want to grow more plants since we have a long season. I’m torn because of the bugs. Recommendations?? I’m always checking the plants and still got an infestation. Picked 9 adults off one plant and have seen litters from them. I trellis almost everything.

[@LisaSwift-nu4ie]

❤❤❤❤ Love ya Mr. Tuck!!!

[@pinksky1467]

Brilliant Idea! ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

[@TheHanyou]

Since you're telling people to pick extra blossoms anyway, I will say that Squash Blossoms are great for stuff like salads & such. Extra nice if they have pollen on them.