Monday, May 30, 2011

Mystery Squash...Solved

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The mystery of the volunteer squash...solved!   Now, about two or more weeks after picking it, our bets are that it's definitely a Golden Hubbard.  The colors in the pic above are unretouched...it really is a deep, bright orange.  Good...there are a couple more baby ones on the vine, woo!

What surprise volunteers appeared in your neck of the woods this year?

5 comments:

Irma said...

Good heavens woman, here in Alantic Canada I haven't even PLANTED my garden yet. (Well....mostly because I am really unorganized this year.)

The only thing IN my garden is volunteers: a few carrots I somehow missed last year, they are heirloom so I'm going to wait and see if I can figure out what to do when they go to seed. Oh, and the one ground cherry plant I put in two years ago is now threatening to take over an entire bed. Yes, I know that's just self seeding and not true volunteering, but it still shocks me. Good thing I love ground cherries so much.

jean said...

Cashews! And, the fruit of the nut are delicious! That's a beautiful looking squash you have.

Robbyn said...

Cashews!!! WOW...you''re in the Garden of Eden :)

Robbyn :)

John Taylor said...

It looks like I have a pumpkin growing in my backyard that I did not plant and have never planted. We have always grown zucchinni and croockneck squash but not in this loation. Really weird.

John

Robbyn said...

Irma, I've never tried ground cherries...I'd love anything like that reseeding yearly, yum!

John, we LOVE pumpkins here...it'll be fun to see what sort yours is :)