Help me identify this plant - pumpkin? watermelon? gourd? squash?

[Nifty-Chicken]

I totally don't think it is watermelon, so that is out.

It is definitely a squash. We get a ton of volunteers like this and they are always pumpkin, zuchinni, etc. and are often weird crosses between them.

 

[saddina]

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No on those, wrong shape.

I'm guessing you do it like I do, take the guts and some rinds with flesh still on, and drop them off as snacks. as the hens sctrach, run about, and act like chickens they'll move seeds about.

 

[coldupnorth]

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I agree - the plant leaves look like melon, but the fruit looks pumpkinish. Could be a cross pollinated fruit - that has happened to me many times. Sometimes its good and sometimes so-so

 

[KristyHall]

the shape of the leaves suggest watermelon to me.

 

[Happy Chooks]

It looks like a pumpkin.

Cross pollinating - say you have a pumpkin plant and a zucchini plant next to each other. The bees (or the wind) spread the pollen from one plant to the other. You could end up with hybrid pumpkin/zucchini fruit. Kinda like a pluot is a hybrid plum/apricot.

 

[Wynette]

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If I'd thought it was one of THOSE, I'd have gone ahead & had DH spread the manure. ACK!

 

[saddina]

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If I'd thought it was one of THOSE, I'd have gone ahead & had DH spread the manure. ACK!

The chickens like them, take one, split it in half and let them have at it.

 

[Orchid]

Grilled zucchini with olive oil, salt and pepper? Deeeelicious!

 

[Wynette]

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um....no. IF it was a matter of world peace or something, I might be able to choke it down!

Sadinna's got a good point, and if it's something weird...the chooks will love them, I'm sure!

 

[Orchid]

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um....no. IF it was a matter of world peace or something, I might be able to choke it down!

Sadinna's got a good point, and if it's something weird...the chooks will love them, I'm sure!

I've always figured if the world could live on zucchini, no one would starve with the way it grows.

The chickens do love anything that grows on a vine!

Be sure to let us know what it turns out to be.