[Gardeneer]

Originally Posted by Worth1

No it is a cucumber some how a seed I was planting ended up there.
It may be an Armenian cucumber because that is the only cucumber seeds that were any place close to that area,
The snails took all of them out where I planted them.

As for volunteer cucumbers I have them almost every year.
If it weren't for them I wouldn't have had cucumbers last year.
They came up from a huge yellow cucumber I put in the compost pile next to the raised beds the summer before.
Market more 76 is what is was.

Out in west Texas and in some places around here we have what is called a pie melon.
I have no idea what cultivar it is.
It looks like a wee watermelon.
The only way they continue on is by way of volunteers.
They are wild.

As for volunteer cucumbers I have them almost every year.
If it weren't for them I wouldn't have had cucumbers last year.
They came up from a huge yellow cucumber I put in the compost pile next to the raised beds the summer before.
Market more 76 is what is was.

Yeah, if you neglect your cucumber and it becomes seed cucumber and you compost tem than you can have volunteer cucumber. But you can never have a volunteer cucumber from kitchen/table scraps.

Now, talking cukes, I have 2 kinds. One is kinda pickling size and the other is Market More. They have vines about 10 -12 inches but still standing up. I have plenty of room for them to run. I have grown Armenian cucumber few times. Technically it is some kind of melon, not really a cucumber.