Cover the ground around the squash plant with straw if possible. You don't need a thick layer, just enough to keep the leaves and fruit off the dirt. Use a product called Sluggo Plus to kill slugs, snails, cutworms, and other bugs that like to live under mulches; it's completely non-toxic and safe to use on organic gardens. Straw is the dried stems of cereal plants like wheat. It is preferable to hay because hay is more likely to have weed seeds in it.
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Cover the ground around the squash plant with straw if possible. You don't need a thick layer, just enough to keep the leaves and fruit off the dirt. Use a product called Sluggo Plus to kill slugs, snails, cutworms, and other bugs that like to live under mulches; it's completely non-toxic and safe to use on organic gardens. Straw is the dried stems of cereal plants like wheat. It is preferable to hay because hay is more likely to have weed seeds in it.
You can build trellises and they will climb them and then your squash will just grow hanging from the vines.
Suspend in Nets........
A raised garden bed perhaps
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