I've never seen anything like it. I was working away in the office and happened to look out over the garden. Julie was doing one of her specialised border revamps. In other words Julie was cutting down a monstrous butternut squash. Well that's what we think it is. In the spring we'd spread home produced compost over the back (hot) border and we assumed in there had been a butternut squash seed which decided to germinate and take over the garden. It was a survivor and despite being in the wrong place we let it grow. Each tendril was a couple of meters long, latterly covered in small fruits, or more accurately squashes. Could we eat these? But having checked on a horticultural forum we thought best not as in the wild members of the squash family can hybridise and produce poisonous vegetables. A shame really as we do like squash based food but in the end we decided to cut it back as it's nearly winter and they'll not ripen now. A lovely example of survival of the fittest, though now it's cut down there is a lot to compost. Isn't nature fascinating.
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