The squash in the pictures came into my garden earlier this year. I think it is an Acorn squash as it resembles the squash I planted last year. However, the fruit are
Can you identify?
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...hybrid, or did you grow multiple types that could have crossed with the acorn? Or did your neighbors?
...and also, do you compost? Would you have put store bought squash or pumpkin seeds into the compost?
Really interesting. I wish I had the space for mystery squash.
Have you tasted one yet? I would crack open a green one to see if it's more of a summer squash type, since the plant looks like a bushy zucchini type plant. Then try one aged like a winter squash.
...and also, do you compost? Would you have put store bought squash or pumpkin seeds into the compost?
Really interesting. I wish I had the space for mystery squash.
Have you tasted one yet? I would crack open a green one to see if it's more of a summer squash type, since the plant looks like a bushy zucchini type plant. Then try one aged like a winter squash.
Acorn squash are Cucurbita pepo.
However, zucchini and Jack o'Lantern pumpkins are also C. pepo. Bees, primarily bumblebees, do a very good job of moving squash and pumpkin pollen around in my garden. Any volunteer cannot be trusted.
The neighbor once had a few weird volunteers and allowed the tractor guy to just run over them at the end of the season. Next, the tractor rototiller went through my garden. I had the strangest gourd type fruits growing in the ground where I also had put my squash and pumpkin transplants. That it was difficult to know which vine was which made for a problematic mess.
Isolating varieties so that seed can be saved from non-hybrids could be difficult. Those bumblebees get around!
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However, zucchini and Jack o'Lantern pumpkins are also C. pepo. Bees, primarily bumblebees, do a very good job of moving squash and pumpkin pollen around in my garden. Any volunteer cannot be trusted.
The neighbor once had a few weird volunteers and allowed the tractor guy to just run over them at the end of the season. Next, the tractor rototiller went through my garden. I had the strangest gourd type fruits growing in the ground where I also had put my squash and pumpkin transplants. That it was difficult to know which vine was which made for a problematic mess.
Isolating varieties so that seed can be saved from non-hybrids could be difficult. Those bumblebees get around!
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I grew acorn squash last year, don't use store bought squash seeds in compost - the scraps of sb squash are end pieces, we eat everything else. Don't think any nearby neighbors garden at all.
Last year the acorn squash started out as a smaller version of these in the pictures, but standard green acorn fruit appeared on the vines, later.
Since the fruit is yellow when should it be picked. Guess I could try one now as there are many.
How about cooking? Just like acorn squash?
Last year the acorn squash started out as a smaller version of these in the pictures, but standard green acorn fruit appeared on the vines, later.
Since the fruit is yellow when should it be picked. Guess I could try one now as there are many.
How about cooking? Just like acorn squash?
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