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popped up in the garden.

Nowhere close to where anything was planted last year, but something may have been tossed there.



The two in the bottom right are planted cucumbers.

Definitely in the squash or pumpkin family..know that for sure!! Or melon family...leaves are too thick and large to be cucumber!!

Squash. Planted some yesterday.

Probably a squash of some kind although could be a cantilope. When it gets a little bigger you can identify it a little better. miles

wife and I have figured either squash or zucchini.

Gonna move them to a new area tilled yesterday, and I hope their not cantaloupe. I plant those further apart.

I have to concur with the one's voting squash, or in that family.

I tried to transplant started squash once, killed it. Grows easily from seed though. May have just been bad luck.

If you didn't plant them they are weeds

Look like a melon or a squash to me also. I would get the cucumbers moved while they are still small or your cukes will taste like squash and your squash like cukes.

Lady friend, that would be an improvement either way.

BCR

The cukes are there to stay. I have already put up the ends for the trellis for the vines to hang over.


I'm moving the squash/melon/zucchini this morning, after I finish all the corn.

I saw some volunteer tomatoes in my garden yesterday. They will be Arkansas Traveler breed so they should be true. If I transplant them, will they still be a weed? miles

Looks like the squash family to me.

If you transplant 'em they are gonna be good maters.
although I had some volunteer tomatoes come up in the garden last year (I didn't transplant them), they were a cherry type tomato and so sour they were inedible.

Looks like watermelon to me. Any chance someone tossed or spit some seeds?

I never planted pumpkins by the front porch either. Guess whatm a pumpkin came up. Come to find out, that was where the kids carved their pumpkins! Funny how things happen

OK, folks, the verdict is in:


Acorn Squash.


seems sometime last winter, before I tilled it during the cold months, someone cleaning out the refrigerator tossed an acorn squash into the garden.

Now I have about 16 plants going.

Going to be a lot of squash.....