Friday, September 02, 2005

Zucchini? (Or pumpkin/gourd?)

We have about a 20-foot span of this ground crawler vegetable growing wild in the area behind the larger wildflower bed. We didn't plant anything that looks like it. Is this zucchini?

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Its "fruit"


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Its blossom (as big as my hand)


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...for real!


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Its leaf


Update: My husband's co-workers believe it is a pumpkin or a gourd. Last Halloween we threw our pumpkins into this area of our land to be used by wildlife or to compost. Neat!

4 comments:

aughra said...

so neat. Are you going to make a bread?

Poppy said...

Um. I dunno. If it's a pumpkin we'll use it for Halloween. If it's a gourd we'll use it for Halloween. If it's a zucchini and we have no takers we'll make bread out of it and bring it to work. :)

Joanne said...

I think it is a pumpkin plant. this picture looks like what you have. If it is a pumpkin plant, you'll probably have more than one. They're prolific things. :)

duff said...

it looks pumpkiny to me.