odd ? mellon / gourds growing in corner of pasture

[Soundguy]

was out mowing the pasture.. found these things that look about like basketball or smaller sized melons. skin vaugely resembles a watermellon.. though not as dark green.. but same striping.

i hit a couple with the mower and the flesh has a rind then is whitish or maybee whiteish yellow, with white seeds. again. has the same flesh profile as a watermellon.. etc.. I have no clue what they are... leaf on the vine looks like a squash leaf kinda.

I have grown pumpkin and watermellon 25ys ago.. but not anything recently.. these are on vines that look similar.

any ideas?

 

[Yellowhair42]

 

[wjmst]

Those are probably Alien Eggs. I suspect the NSA will be out to gather intel shortly.

 

[Car Doc]

I would taste one it might be good cooked with some butter, brown sugar and cinnamon.

 

[Dr_Zinj]

Be careful. Some gourds that might look like winter squash but cook up so bitter that you want to pull your tongue out and cut it off at the root.

 

[teejk]

I'd review what you have planted in the past. I'm learning that birds and squirrels are very effective seed planters (and they fertilize at the same time). My shop building abuts a woods and I never went back there until this year. I have the biggest berry patch I have ever seen with no effort required on my part. We live in the woods so black raspberry and blackberry (and just now some unidentified conical shaped berry is getting ripe) I can understand. But there is also a pile of domestic red raspberries even though I know of nobody raising them in the area.

 

[robbyr]

I used to have some here in a patch beside my yard that only got mowed a couple times a year. They were on a vine just laying on ground and maybe twice as large as a big pear. Since that's now part of my yard and gets mowed regularly I don't see em any more.

 

[Shutesbury]

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LOL!! :thumbsup:

 

[Barton]

Sounds like citron melons.

 

[randy41]

sounds like immature pumpkins