Climbing courgettes

[ukfish]

Trying shooting star climbing courgettes this year to try and save some space. Anyone have any experience of this type?

Cheers

[ameno]

As far as I know, most if not all climbing courgettes are not really proper climbers. They produce tendrils only very sparsely, so are not very good at gripping in order to climb. What they really are is more of a long rambling courgette. They can be trained up frames, of course, but they require frequent tying in as they won't hold themselves up.
Tromboncino are an exception to this, and will climb properly. But they also aren't technically courgettes, but rather are actually a type of long, thin butternut squash which is picked young and eaten like a courgette.

[annie8]

I don’t do that with courgettes, but did try it with onion sqaush(uchiki kuri) and that worked well. Meant I freed up space in the bed for courgettes and pumpkin. Tied them in and supported with pop socks.

[Jungle Jane]

I grew shooting star courgette last year,I tied it to bamboo sticks with string but that wasn’t strong enough for our weather. I remember we had some strong winds during summer & it messed the plant,it needed to be more secure than I had it & maybe if it was next to a fence,it wouldn’t have been blown around so much.
Edit - I think it was two years ago I grew it actually……it was a nice plant until the wind…

[Bren In Pots]

I know its not the same plant but one year I grew Butternut squashes up a trailer that was leaned against a wall. because I'd run out of space in the beds.