How to get the most from a raised bed garden, always run out of space
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Train your zucchini and squash plants to go up a trellis. I would go with one for each and put them in the middle so that you can still harvest from both sides, or you could put them in the back if you prefer. If you have a fence around your yard, think about making a very narrow bed and letting them go up the fence and along the fence if they get too tall. I know my squash and cucumbers can get to twenty feet or more, I train them to go to the chain link that goes around our property and along the garden fence. I don't plant my squash at the fence. Right now I allow it to use a quarter of my garden to get to the fence. My cucumbers I plant next to the fence because of the peppers and tomatoes that are close. I hope this helps! Happy gardening.
I was going to write the same thing that Nancy did.
Here are some ideas from a google.com search
https://www.google.com/search?q=trellis+for+squash+%26+zucchini&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiknoqu4rfVAhVHVyYKHU5JAvQQ_AUICygC&biw=1324&bih=665
Good Luck!
I have limited space too, so I grow less of the big sprawling plants so I have room for other things. Plus I rotate the crops, sometimes I have zucchini and watermelon, another time I will have cucumber and cantaloupe. I always have some sort of tomatoes too plus the other things I have growing.
Grow them Veritically
Vertical on trellises will make all the difference- keep us posted!!
plant to the very edge; train to trail over the sides - corners would work best -- or plant some of the 'dwarf' species. Not all plants will 'climb' on a trellis and you will have to tie with nylon hose pieces