We had a couple of volunteer veggies show up next to our compost bin this year, so we let them grow just to see what we got. One is mini pumpkins, but the other I’m not sure about. The plant looks pumpkin-like, but the blossoms are yellow and about the size of a 50-cent piece. We have one small fruit starting. It’s about the size of a cherry tomato, green, and covered with fuzz. I thought watermelon or squash, but no idea what kind if it’s the latter.
Experienced gardeners, what should I prepare to harvest?
Perhaps a Kiwi fruit? They grow on vines.
Sounds like a wild gourd. Here’s the flower, here’s the fruit.
Sounds alot like a type of melon. Canteloupes have smaller yellow flowers and small fuzzy green fruit.
Ooh I know I know - pick me pick me !!
Courgette / Zuchinni.
At least the flower is identical to the flowers on my Mum’s courgettes at home altho’ her ‘fruit’ are the traditional long green ones - yours looks like one of the paler green round varieties that I see on market stalls here in France (we can also buy yellow ones). They taste mighty fine btw.
Thanks everyone! You’re mentioning all kinds of exciting possibilities I hadn’t thought of. I’ll keep an eye on it and see if it starts looking like anything in particular soon. I checked today and it’s about 1 1/2 inches long, still green and fuzzy, and kind of egg-shaped.
If it’s cucumber or zucchini, I’m guessing the next question I post will be–anyone have good recipes that use lots of these?
I know you’ve all been waiting impatiently to find out what the mystery plant turned out to be, so I’ll end the suspense. It’s a cantaloupe! We got three melons about the size of grapefruit off the plant.
Wow ! and I was so sure 
Oh well, hope you enjoyed them.
