That is exactly how I do it. 1 is too few, 2 is the norm, 3 will not harm, 4 or more will be too crowded. Aside from the roots, consideration has to be made for the vines as well.They will need room to run or climb and get some air.

Sorry for not responding sooner but our internet connection has been down soon after I posted this. Dial up goes down when it rains or snows much and we just finished a big snowstorm. Silvia I got the Futtsu from Sand Hill and the Sibley from Baker Creek. I also saw Sibley at Fedco but not Futtsu. I saw a post by you last year and you had a squash that I think you called Seminole and it looks like my 3 Seminole to the left of my group of 8. Weirdtrev says they look like a squash called 'La Estrella'. What do you think and where did you get your seed? My problem is that I had Seminole seed from 3 sources. Sand Hill, Fedco, and Baker Creek. I had opened all 3 packs over the past 2 years but none matured in 08 so I don't know which one was which. I had one hill of about 4 seeds of the one that looks like La Estrella and harvested 20 squash at 12-17 lbs each so it was a good producer but most did set late. Steve You may be right about the ph. My soil runs about 6-6.3 but I thought Amish Pie was more strawberry shaped and mine was more flattened but not as much as a Long Island Cheese. Mauirose I planted 2 hills about 10 feet apart and had about 4 plants per hill. I had one other hill about 500 feet away as I don't like them together due to bug problems here. They spread out about 25 feet but if they get too close to something else I just prune them back. Mailman22 I just had a good year I guess. We also have fertile soil here being in the heart of the corn belt( I am a farmer also). The ground I used this year has not had a crop of any kind for 10 years also. Knittlin Maybe I will try Amish Pie from another seed source and see if I get the same thing. I got my Warsaw seed from George McLaughlin(AKA Macmex) I think George also named the squash. I also have some seed as I hand pollinated several squash but I don't have many of the round ones like he has. Weirdtrev Thanks for the input on the Seminole. I didn't think there would be that much variation. What information can you give me on the 'La Estrella'? I have not heard of that one. I think I know where my seed came from so I may contact them to see if anyone has had the same results.

Hear it from the expert! Farmerdilla said it. Two to three seedlins per hill (I prefer 2, separated by about 5 inches), spacing each hill from all other neighboring hills by about 18". If you are a Square foot gardener, draw grids (like chessboard) that has square of 18 inches per side. Plant your seedsseedings at the center of squares. But if you plant them in rows, then space between rows will be more than 18". maybe 24".

Hello~ I am probably close to rian, but just across the line from VA in "wild & wonderful" WV. When I had a bigger veggie garden, I usually had my winter squash seed planted by July 1, but this year we took a plot in a community garden, in addition to our little home veggie garden that was too small for winter squash, except for 1 hill of a bush-type vegetable spaghetti. There was an even smaller unrented plot nearby, but I figured that I could get 2-3 hills planted there of an heirloom squash so I inquired of the garden manager and was told to go for it--something, anything, planted there was better than weeds! After weeding it and working compost in under my hills, it was July 7th before the 1st 2 hills were planted with seed and the 3rd one became home to 2 winter squash that had come up in the compost pile that I transplanted there. These were all heirloom varieties: 'L.I. Cheese' pumpkin,and 'Amish Long-neck Pie' pumpkin. 'Orange Cushaw' and the other day I put another hill in of a hybrid bush acorn, "Elite', that said it would mature in 55 days, so I know that I'm OK there, but the maturity dates on the seeded squash were 90 and 110 days. I realize it's a gamble that I'll get ripe squash, but nothing ventured nothing gained! As of yesterday, all the cheese pumpkin and 1 Cushaw have germinated and have grown true leaves, but it looks as if I may lose 1 of the 2 Long-necked Pie pumpkin transplants, but I have several seedlings as a back-up I grew from saved seed so I can transplant 2 of those. I plan to let the vines wander out from under the deer fencing unto the unrented, thus unplowed, corn field next to the garden site. I'll post later what happens with my experiment...