Need help identifying this...
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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Thanks for the info. My garden was nuts this year, because I used my garden compost...
and they were delicious. Mild flavor, thin skins. But yours looks a little more elongated.
It'll be interesting to see if your squash changes color as it ripens, and whether the skin toughens and thickens.
Thank you.
