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Gardening

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MiHale

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Mon Aug 23, 2021, 08:42 AM Aug 2021

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This year the compost pile has been treating us to unintended plants. We received a “compost-a-loupe, no fruit yet but a beautiful plant. We also got a bunch of roma tomatoes can always use those.
But this one has us positively flummoxed. This plant of which I only show the fruit looks exactly like a zucchini plant since we grow lots of zucchini it seemed a normal thing. The strange thing is it’s outside of the pile, couple feet away. We let it grow cuz, why not?

Well the fruit came out looking like a little round ball, small ping-pong ball size. ????
As it’s getting older this is what we have. We only grow “Black Beauty” zucchini which is a heirloom variety. Looks little like an acorn squash, we don’t grow those (we should) so I don’t know what a “baby” acorn may look like.

Help!

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My advice: don't go to sleep! zuul Aug 2021 #1
Louder...I'm running away as fast as I can! MiHale Aug 2021 #6
Looks like acorn squash. Bluethroughu Aug 2021 #2
Compost is mainly used to get rid of biomass... MiHale Aug 2021 #5
Ah... Bluethroughu Aug 2021 #20
I've grown round yellow summer squash, but don't remember the name of it, they looked like this: chia Aug 2021 #3
I used Google lens to try to identify... MiHale Aug 2021 #7
Well, there are round zucchini too. I hope you come back and update when they're ripe! chia Aug 2021 #10
Found that out... MiHale Aug 2021 #11
Wow those are so cute, never seen those before. Bluethroughu Aug 2021 #21
They were so, so good, very tender skin, very bright and fresh flavor, would def grow again! chia Aug 2021 #22
I will try next year ! Bluethroughu Aug 2021 #23
Happy gardening! :) chia Aug 2021 #24
Could be an accidental hybrid Wicked Blue Aug 2021 #4
Looks like acorns, but there are so many varieties out there.. TreasonousBastard Aug 2021 #8
Thx my thinking too but... MiHale Aug 2021 #9
Love delicatas! I like to cut them in half, fill the halves with... TreasonousBastard Aug 2021 #12
No gotta look for that...love sweet potatoes. MiHale Aug 2021 #13
likely this. the whole family mopinko Aug 2021 #14
I'll get around to asking some local farmers in a week or so. I tried growing... TreasonousBastard Aug 2021 #15
probably squash beetles. mopinko Aug 2021 #16
Could be. There were tunnels, though, so I figured a critter. TreasonousBastard Aug 2021 #17
Keep an eye on it - you never know packman Aug 2021 #18
... MiHale Aug 2021 #19
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