daisybeans
annapolis md
Posts: 3675
|
| Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 11:24 am Post subject: A gift from the birds... |
|
Hello everyone! I've been watching a particular volunteer plant to see what it might be. It came up beside a rose bush earlier in the season. I didn't know if it was a type of squash, or maybe a pumpkin.... Then, yesterday this is what I found! It looks like a watermelon. It's about as big as my thumb.
I included a pic of the leaves. Is is a watermelon? Is there anything special I need to do for it?
teeny tiny watermelon ( photo / image / picture from daisybeans's Garden )
The leaves on the "watermelon" plant ( photo / image / picture from daisybeans's Garden )
To hide these ads please register / sign in
_________________
Daisybeans/MaryAnn
"Once the relation between poetry and the soil is well established in the mind, all growing things are endowed with more than material beauty." -Elizabeth Lawrence
|
|
| Back to top |
|
toni
 Administrator
Plants Moderator
Regular Plants Contributor
North Texas, Zone 8a
Posts: 11249
|
| Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 1:13 pm Post subject: |
|
Nope not
watermelon leaves
or cucumbers or squash.
Almost like a gourd leaf actually.
_________________
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with Spring ----
George Santayana
|
|
| Back to top |
|
daisybeans
annapolis md
Posts: 3675
|
| Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 3:51 am Post subject: |
|
Well. You're right about that Toni! Not watermelon leaves... I've been googling gourds and gourd leaves.... possibility for sure. The leaves on my plant seem smaller than those in the pictures. We'll see!!! It's a fun surprise.
_________________
Daisybeans/MaryAnn
"Once the relation between poetry and the soil is well established in the mind, all growing things are endowed with more than material beauty." -Elizabeth Lawrence
|
|
| Back to top |
|
glendann
Texas
Posts: 9228
|
| Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 3:56 am Post subject: |
|
It looks like a gourd to me DaisyBeans.I hope its an edible gourd.
_________________
'Life is not measured by the breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.'
|
|
| Back to top |
|
daisybeans
annapolis md
Posts: 3675
|
| Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 4:00 am Post subject: |
|
I think so too -- especially the more I look at different kinds.... and even more when I googled "baby gourds" -- the little fruit does look like a gourd. Very exciting! I didn't know some gourds are edible. I kind of hope it's not edible so I can let it dry and keep it!
Thanks for the help, Toni and Glenda!
_________________
Daisybeans/MaryAnn
"Once the relation between poetry and the soil is well established in the mind, all growing things are endowed with more than material beauty." -Elizabeth Lawrence
|
|
| Back to top |
|
Sjoerd
West - Friesland
Posts: 6915
|
| Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 9:31 pm Post subject: |
|
Daisy...I think that this could possibly be a Cucurbita moschata (butternut squash) plant.
I hope that it is for you...because they have a 'different' sort of flavour--sort of sweetish.
If it is the butternut, then it will eventually turn yellowish.
I haven't grown this for three years, and I am not sure what a young one looks like anymore, but it is the first think that I thought about when I saw the foto.
Keep us updated on this please.
_________________
Sjoerd http://www.volkstuindersvereniginghoornenomstreken.nl/Page11.html
Last edited by Sjoerd on Sun Aug 16, 2009 10:56 pm; edited 1 time in total
|
|
| Back to top |
|
daisybeans
annapolis md
Posts: 3675
|
| Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 1:26 pm Post subject: |
|
I hope that's what it is -- I love butternut squash -- any winter squash for that matter.
_________________
Daisybeans/MaryAnn
"Once the relation between poetry and the soil is well established in the mind, all growing things are endowed with more than material beauty." -Elizabeth Lawrence
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
