I decided to plant some spaghetti squash this spring and started three plants indoors – replanting in early May. I noticed, though, that the pack of seeds said a “fall melon” but that I could plant in the spring.
Two of the vines made it and one of them produced a single melon, which grew to about the size of a grapefruit, then stopped growing. I finally picked it, we ate it, and it was good. With no more melons in sight, I started to pull the vines up, but didn’t, and I’m glad. In the last few weeks – possibly sensing that fall is near – the vines took off. They are now all over my small garden bed, visiting the tomatoes and peppers and climbing any fence or trellis in sight and I have more melons on the way.
They say spaghetti squash vines will grow as much as 8-feet, but mine have long passed that mark. I have spaghetti vines up the wazoo and new melons and lots of blossoms. If the borers don’t get them, I may end up with a bumper crop of squash after all.
There’s something to be said about a fall melon.
