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| I am newer to gardening so I am not really good yet at identifying plants as they start to grow.
I have an Orphan growing on the edge of a compost pile. This looks to me to be more of a good plant than a weed, It does look familiar like I should know what it is, I know I have seen this before. I am going over possibilities in my mind like some kind of cucumber, zucchini or eggplant (There was rotted over ripe examples of all of that thrown into the compost before) I have to tell on myself, in the past, I have nurtured really nice pretty plants before, caring for them, nurturing them, then when my father came to visit said get rid of that weed before it goes to seed! So Please tell me
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| vegi plant. cuke, zucchini |
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| Some kind of cucurbit, cuc or melon. |
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| Thank you, I must be improving as cucumber and zucchini were the two Kept lingering in my head the most! Funny thing is I would walk over and look at cucumbers I planted this year and walk back, it was like well they are close but not exact! I guess volunteer plants are fun, kind of like a bonus! (As long as they are desirable volunteers!) |
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| Plant. Also, would you consider taking pictures of my garden??? *le sigh* |
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| If it is at the edge of the compost, it may be from something you composted this winter. I have had several tomato and cucumber volunteers from my compost pile this year. It could also be a gourd of some sort, last year I had a few of them volunteer, from "bird seed" that some critter had brought over. I let one grow out of curiosity and it turned into a 10 ft vine with softball size gourds. |
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| Do you only have one? I didn't have any squash-type volunteers in my compost, but I had dozens of cucumber volunteers. When I thinned them, I smelled the broken stalk of one..... definitely cucumber. That is my sure fire method of confirming what the plant is since I can't tell baby cucumber from baby sunflower / squash / pumpkin / etc. ;) Of course, if you only have one single volunteer, you won't have the chance to smell it.... |
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| "Do you only have one?" Actually there was two more, but I had weeded them before I thought hmmmm this looks more like a plant I recognize. "Also, would you consider taking pictures of my garden???" "If it is at the edge of the compost, it may be from something you composted this winter. I have had several tomato and cucumber volunteers from my compost pile this year. It could also be a gourd of some sort, last year I had a few of them volunteer, from "bird seed" I had speculated this, I placed several over ripened goodies in the piles to compost. |
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| Let it grow if you have the space. One year I got 10 honeydew melons from a seedling that sprouted in the compost. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Freebies
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| "Let it grow if you have the space. One year I got 10 honeydew melons from a seedling that sprouted in the compost." I am letting it grow, looking forward to it. I just will not start building compost back into this location til fall. I can start the new pile off with the spent remains from this plant when it has done it's thing! |
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- Posted by Donna.in.Sask 2b (My Page) on Sat, Jun 16, 12 at 15:38
| Before I purchased my compost bins, I had a compost pile. I had a strange vine grow out of that pile one year; we thought it was a cucumber. It wasn't until the netting developed on the "fruit" that I realized it was from cantaloupe scraps we had thrown in the pile. |
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- Posted by steven1032 none (My Page) on Sat, Jun 16, 12 at 23:06
| it is a zuccini or a melon plant. my bet is it is a zuccini plant the way it is growing straight up. |
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