Thanks for the help! Carol, your plant is gorgeous, but I don't think I have that. Mine definitely climbs vigorously and has small round fruit that are pale in color and not green. Farmerdilla, I know I tossed zukes and cukes, maybe some yellow squash too, into the compost heap b/c I grew them last year. FIL gave us pumpkins and those ended up there too (Heaven help us). Didn't grow cantaloupes but I may have bought one or two so that might be a possibility. I'm trying to post a link to a photo right now. I hope it works! Here is a link that might be useful: Mystery Round Squash-like Veggie

Before we bought a compost bin this year we just had a pile (lots of leaves). I posted before about some kind of cucurb in it. Turns out we have at least 3 different kinds - a striped green and yellow gourd or squash (2 fruits now), a patty pan squash (2 fruits), and something that looks right now like a miniature pumpkin (1 fruit). Plus one that I transplanted to the garden and has lots of flowers but no fruit yet. I had bought a whole basket (almost a bushel) of mixed gourds/squash for $3 at Wmart last fall for decoration, threw them all in the pile in December. Plants are spreading across the hillside behind the garden now. Also had a lot of tomato volunteers from the new compost bin. I planted a couple in pots, 1 has flowers so we'll see what comes up. Hope they're Campari and not the tasteless grape tomatoes that started getting wrinkly b/c no one wanted to eat them! I also can't explain this - I planted various kinds of indeterminate tomatoes in trenches with a trellis, trying to keep 1 or 2 varieties at most in each row. Yellow pear tomatoes seemed to have lots of root suckers coming up. But after a while I noticed RL volunteers that look exactly like the pear tomato babies coming up in my other rows with my PL heirlooms (and my Speckled Roman pastes and cherries which are RL but a much more delicate leaf)! Definitely tomatoes, not weeds, b/c when you rub the leaves your fingers have that lovely "tomato plant smell". I imagine these have to be root suckers from the transplants, but I have no idea why the leaves look different from the parents. I left some of them to see what happens.

I am sure that it has similar parentage as the Gower's Ramsey. But the flowers are larger and the plant is smaller which is why I was thinking it could be a Sweet Sugar. I do not know much about Gower's Ramesy either. Possibly this is just a cultivar of it. I was not aware of how popular this type of hybrid is. Maybe it will always be a NOID.

Anyone? Pulled 24 and potted them - looked a bit 'wilty' yesterday but seem to be recovering nicely with the cool damp weather - so far I had a friend a request 5. Should note that my email has been hit or miss just recently....so I'll check this posting each day until they have homes...if anyone wants to take them to the swap that's fine too..... a