Your 2025 Garden

[LaurenRitz]

I have grown pumpkins that looked exactly like that.

Yes, but it doesn't look like the other volunteers so unless the parents are two different types of pumpkins it's likely crossed with something else.

 

[R2elk]

Yes, but it doesn't look like the other volunteers so unless the parents are two different types of pumpkins it's likely crossed with something else.

Many of the pumpkins available today are hybrids. It would be more likely for two seeds from the same pumpkin to produce different fruits than it would be for them to produce the same fruit.

 

[fuzzi]

Possible zucchini cross? What did you plant last year?

My pumpettis were pretty good.

I have NEVER grown pumpkins until this year, so I don't think it's a squash/pumpkin cross. I did give a whole pumpkin to my flock last year, and a couple seeds may have survived, hidden in the chicken run compost that was eventually added to the raised beds.

 

[fuzzi]

Looks like a pumpkin to me.

Yep. That's why I added the

 

[R2elk]

Yep. That's why I added the

Of course, there is nothing wrong with calling it a squash since all pumpkins are squash.