While looking through my cucumber plants and fixing them to the trellises, I noticed a funny looking cucumber plant. It had very large leaves and very large flowers. I thought it may have been a vine off of my zuchetta, but it had a base right in the middle of the cucumber patch. As I continued to check it out, I noticed that there were some small fruits on the vine and that they looked an awful lot like butternuts. I don't plant butternuts in my garden because the squash vine borers always decimate any squash or zucchini I have ever tried to grow. I pretty much have no idea how they got there. They were able to start growing with my noticing because when they are smaller they looked enough like the cucs to go unnoticed to a busy gardener. It wasn't until we got a good rain recently that they started to grow so wildly. I assume the seeds got there from the compost I spread all over this area at the beginning of the season. So really, they could be any weird kind of squash that I may have bought from a variety of places. Either way, I have fruit on the vine so it will just be one more winter squash that we have to eat. You can never have too much winter squash!
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