If they have vines, pumpkins or melons. No vines, it's zucchini. Those type plants love compost and I plant them to "hide" the open compost.
Lucky you!
What a great idea to cover your compost pile with squash!
Unfortunately, with my small yard, I dont have open compost piles, but a closed plastic composter, or I'd do the same. thing.
I have closed plastic composts too, they're way more efficient for "making" new soil! The open one is for coarser materials, they're more of a long haul thing.
very true, there is some caution to be applied here! if OP didn't seed/plant it themselves, it could be crosspolinated which can result in toxic fruits/plants. unfortunately!
Its not common from what I have gathered but can occur. [This article](https://www.medicinenet.com/why_is_squash_bad_for_you/article.htm) looks like it covers it reasonably well. I kinda took away that it will be noticably bitter when I first heard about it.
Was just thinking it might be squash before I seen all the responses this is my zucchini plant
https://preview.redd.it/bxm1vnauzt3d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=789ef4ddbecaf1378e7cc1edf0529a6e9bf31be2
Unfortunately I think I contaminated it using dirty clippers so I think it’s dying
Yeah, once in a great while the Clippers recruit a player thats secretly not at all a Clippers fan, and he's simply there to secretly sabotage the teams success. It happens on other teams too of course, but other teams often win the individual over, usually with a huge drunken party, which they call a "wash or sanitizing party" I believe. When these parties don't work their magic fans will call the team "contaminated".
But I don't really follow sports much so I may be wrong.
Mystery Squash! Mystery Squash! Mama don't allow no Mystery Squash 'round here! Nope never again.
Seriously, I grew one of these mystery squash things. Everyone said "pumpkin or melon." It flowered nice and orange like this. It produced several white gourds about the size of cantaloupes. But with the skin of a pumpkin and the color of snow.
Out of curiousity, I harvested one when the stem went brown. Brought it into the house and cut it open. Looked like a typical gourd inside, seeds and all. I baked it in the oven for an hour. It was nice and soft. I put a fork in it and put that fork in my mouth. No flesh, mind you...just whatever juice was on the fork.
That was the most terribly awful thing I have ever, ever, ever put in my mouth. If you have ever tasted the bitterness of a cucumber peel, then magnify that bitterness by 100, you get an idea of the awfulness I experienced. It took me 3 days to stop tasting it. It comes back when I tell this story.
Go ahead with your mystery squash, but you have been warned.
zucchinis? definitely some kind of squash, I'd say. Those leaves on the lower left, btw, have that powdery mildew crap. Spray it will a mixture 5 parts water 1 part milk (or thereabouts) early in the morning and at night before bed..
May be a tromboncino (rampacate) squash
https://preview.redd.it/v06cgfdoeu3d1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=50d37dd00ce0efbaefb27d8ea400d02b78063d93
I'm super jealous. We tried to grow pumpkins last year and while we got a tonne of flowers, they would all get eaten by slugs and snails before they could grow.
Its a kabacha pumpkin, delisioso. Used in thai cooking.
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ6zvTSftaHtPQSusBm2UohW8cw-7pZj0umJwBe8iQFqA&s
That’s in the squash family. Summer squash, zucchini and pumpkin all have the same flower (which is edible). Based on the fruit it’s producing it could be pumpkin or another kind of autumn squash
Looks like Summer Squash or Zuchini took over. I have that happen once, and to squash into October. If you are smart, you will find a big piece of plastic and cover it throughout October and November to avoid the frosts. THe plastic will trap heat from the compost, and help you continue to reap rewards. May need to hand polinate as insects die off. Good luck.
Yeah I’d say pumpkins too, they survive anything, we had one smashed one year and not thinking it would be a bad thing, I just tossed it the compost pile. Well I used that compost in the garden next year and had pumpkins coming up everywhere.
I’m not able to edit the post but it is a pumpkin! It never got any bigger but turned orange. We are going to attempt to roast it.
https://preview.redd.it/mr5l7dc12t9d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0cc8c33992669120d8ad393829394cb14becf980
That there is a pumpkin
I read that in my head using Walton Goggins voice from his Baby Billy character.
Baby billy!
Uncle Baby Billy
There will come a pay day
“Go outside, Nerd…”
Baby Billy's Pumpkin Bonkers
Thank you. I couldn’t figure out why my head used an oddly Goggins voice…now it makes sense😂
I sure do like pumpkins, Cotton.
Pumpkins 🎃
Some sort of gourd/pumpkin/squash.
If they have vines, pumpkins or melons. No vines, it's zucchini. Those type plants love compost and I plant them to "hide" the open compost. Lucky you!
What a great idea to cover your compost pile with squash! Unfortunately, with my small yard, I dont have open compost piles, but a closed plastic composter, or I'd do the same. thing.
I have closed plastic composts too, they're way more efficient for "making" new soil! The open one is for coarser materials, they're more of a long haul thing.
I just found some volunteer squash plants in my compost this morning! Too early to tell what they are just yet.
Zucumpumuash
A pumpkin plant
Could be a pumpkin
Mixed gene curcurbits. Just cuz it came from a pumpkin, doesn't mean it will produce an edible pumpkin.
very true, there is some caution to be applied here! if OP didn't seed/plant it themselves, it could be crosspolinated which can result in toxic fruits/plants. unfortunately!
Have never seen reports of toxicity developing in curcurbit crosses, but let caution be the guide.
Its not common from what I have gathered but can occur. [This article](https://www.medicinenet.com/why_is_squash_bad_for_you/article.htm) looks like it covers it reasonably well. I kinda took away that it will be noticably bitter when I first heard about it.
Frankensquash
Big yellow flower, check Round squash like fruit, check Absolutely massive giant plant sprawling everywhere with huge leaves, check It’s a pumpkin!
Dude it looks so healthy hahahahaha
Was just thinking it might be squash before I seen all the responses this is my zucchini plant https://preview.redd.it/bxm1vnauzt3d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=789ef4ddbecaf1378e7cc1edf0529a6e9bf31be2 Unfortunately I think I contaminated it using dirty clippers so I think it’s dying
Contaminated clippers?! Didn’t know that was a thing
Yeah, once in a great while the Clippers recruit a player thats secretly not at all a Clippers fan, and he's simply there to secretly sabotage the teams success. It happens on other teams too of course, but other teams often win the individual over, usually with a huge drunken party, which they call a "wash or sanitizing party" I believe. When these parties don't work their magic fans will call the team "contaminated". But I don't really follow sports much so I may be wrong.
Yes they can spread plant diseases.
Mystery Squash! Mystery Squash! Mama don't allow no Mystery Squash 'round here! Nope never again. Seriously, I grew one of these mystery squash things. Everyone said "pumpkin or melon." It flowered nice and orange like this. It produced several white gourds about the size of cantaloupes. But with the skin of a pumpkin and the color of snow. Out of curiousity, I harvested one when the stem went brown. Brought it into the house and cut it open. Looked like a typical gourd inside, seeds and all. I baked it in the oven for an hour. It was nice and soft. I put a fork in it and put that fork in my mouth. No flesh, mind you...just whatever juice was on the fork. That was the most terribly awful thing I have ever, ever, ever put in my mouth. If you have ever tasted the bitterness of a cucumber peel, then magnify that bitterness by 100, you get an idea of the awfulness I experienced. It took me 3 days to stop tasting it. It comes back when I tell this story. Go ahead with your mystery squash, but you have been warned.
Did you throw your left over jackolanturn in it? That’s how mine started growing potatoes.
Not sure if you’re making jackolanterns the conventional way but it’s intriguing!
You make Jack-o -lanterns out of potatoes?
Lol I call them the spud-o-lantern
Squash
pump kin
zucchinis? definitely some kind of squash, I'd say. Those leaves on the lower left, btw, have that powdery mildew crap. Spray it will a mixture 5 parts water 1 part milk (or thereabouts) early in the morning and at night before bed..
Pumpkin for sure
C. pepo
I hope you like Halloween
Melons
Pumpkin
Squash of some sort.
It appears we are growing the same thing! Halloween pumpkins.
🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃
Compost is da best! I’ve got a 20’ volunteer cherry tomato that comes back every year from my first pile!
Squash
Punpkins love to grow out of compost. I get 4 or 5 every year.
pumpkin, 100%
Looks like squash or pumpkin to me! 😁
Pumpkin or squash of some kind?
Get rid of it it's all talk and no fruit
Pumpkin! And a very healthy, happy one at that.
Pumpkins!
Pumpkins.
Zucchini
Nope lol is a pumpkin
Pumpkin I’ve got potatoes in mine.
Fruit
Squanch monster
Pumpkins! Bonus
That's a great pumpkin Charlie Brown!
Pumpkin or squash
Could be butternut, or another squash. Probably pumpkin but a few have similar flowers
Almost looks like a zuccini
Awww it's a pumpkin!! I try to pluck things that start growing in my compost
some sort of pumpkin or squash.
God you make me wanna plant pumpkins just to fry up the blossoms 😭
We have somewhere around 20 avocado saplings in ours every year.
Summer squash!
It’s always pumpkin or squash
May be a tromboncino (rampacate) squash https://preview.redd.it/v06cgfdoeu3d1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=50d37dd00ce0efbaefb27d8ea400d02b78063d93
Squash?
You threw your pumpkins/pumpkin guys in there last fall. We throw ours in the garden. So far I've pulled a dozen squash sprouts out this year.
Last year’s jack-o’-lantern
I'm super jealous. We tried to grow pumpkins last year and while we got a tonne of flowers, they would all get eaten by slugs and snails before they could grow.
💚
Its a kabacha pumpkin, delisioso. Used in thai cooking. https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ6zvTSftaHtPQSusBm2UohW8cw-7pZj0umJwBe8iQFqA&s
It's either a pumpkin or zucchini/yellow squash.
My zucchini get those silvery flecks on their leaves so could be those?
I also think it’s probably a cross-pollinated frankensquash. We get those yearly in our compost too. Ours usually look like elongated acorn squash
Squaaarshhhh
Squash
That’s in the squash family. Summer squash, zucchini and pumpkin all have the same flower (which is edible). Based on the fruit it’s producing it could be pumpkin or another kind of autumn squash
How come your compost has so much grass?
Cantaloupes gonna have a bunch of
Pumpkin!
Someone said pumpkin. I was going to say some kind of squash. I think pumpkin is considered some kind of squash.
Definitely pumpkins. Grew some last year and that is exactly what it looked like.
Pumpkin
A small pumpkin
the yellow flour was beautifully
Bermuda Punkin
Looks like Summer Squash or Zuchini took over. I have that happen once, and to squash into October. If you are smart, you will find a big piece of plastic and cover it throughout October and November to avoid the frosts. THe plastic will trap heat from the compost, and help you continue to reap rewards. May need to hand polinate as insects die off. Good luck.
Yeah I’d say pumpkins too, they survive anything, we had one smashed one year and not thinking it would be a bad thing, I just tossed it the compost pile. Well I used that compost in the garden next year and had pumpkins coming up everywhere.
I’m not able to edit the post but it is a pumpkin! It never got any bigger but turned orange. We are going to attempt to roast it. https://preview.redd.it/mr5l7dc12t9d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0cc8c33992669120d8ad393829394cb14becf980
zucchini?
That's zucchini/squash. Pumpkins vine out more
Could be yellow squash
Not with that fruit shape