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Originally Posted by Fuamami  My squash have completely taken over half of my garden. There are some pretty big sugar pumpkins and butternuts, but much of it is still flowering...and growing. It keeps intruding all over the place. If I pruned it back aggressively, would it start producing more fruit? Or put more effort into the fruit it's already growing? Or would it damage it?
TIA!
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I think pruning would help the fruit to grow bigger. I think I'm going to do the same with my vines, because they are doing the same thing, and at this rate we'll never have squash or pumpkins big enough to harvest before it freezes. I did this last year and it didn't damage the plants at all.
I know that one of the suggestions for people who grow giant vegetables is to prune all but one or two of the fruits on the vines.
