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Wow and double wow!!!!!!!! Not only beautiful to see, but so easy to pick.

ALittle Salt... Acorn squash is really yummy. Very easy to bake too. Cut in half. Coat the cavity with some butter and brown sugar and lay in a piece of bacon or a sausage link and bake til tender. Tastes like your eating a sweet potato.

Butternut and Acorn can get kind of heavy, so if you go up, have some strength. I have seen where folks have trellised them up and then they put like a small board in the air as a platform of the squash to sit on.

I don't know about the first 4 on your additional list, but the Early Straightneck and the Dark Green Zucchini are going to make a bush type plant. They won't climb. If you can hill up about a 3 foot wide patch, and just plant down it. The Straightneck and the Zucchini will make all their fruits near the main stem.