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I noticed on the weekend that there was squash coming up! I thought self sown, how is that possible, as I left no fruit in the field. However I did bury quite a lot of veg peelings, so they could have come up from those seeds!
My question is will they be viable? Last year I had mostly butternuts in but also a couple of larger green ones, variety unknown. Or will they just give me weird pumpkins with white flesh and no taste?

you will have to wait and see!!!!!!!

Who knows you might get a green stripey butternut  or a strange shaped squash. I would leave one or two to grow just for the thrill :P

Duke

I have grown plants from supermarket squash seeds and they have done well.  It will be pot luck what you get.  It is rather fun waiting to see what happens.  I once had a great courgette come up as a weed.  But unfortuneately it was before I got into seed saving.  

If you have space for it to grow, let it grow and see what you get from it.

It could be great, or  :o

I've got one coming up in the parsnip bed, luckily, no parsnips in there, yet. It went through all the frosty stuff lately and is doing well. I'm goig to transplant it and see what I get  ;D

yes i've got a load coming up. They're from the seeds that went into the compost bin by mistake autumn before last  :o

oh dear, in any case I know that I just don't have the gumption to pull up and destroy healthy plants!  I keep volunteer potatoes too because of that! (although always get good spuds off them!). I have kept in 2 or 3, a few looked a bit weedy but the others are really strong healthy plants! As I did not have too many squash varieties, I am hoping they will turn out not too weird! I will post on my blog their success! They are quite near the path so I will let them run down it. Irony is that I actually buried the veggie scraps as a compost trench..to grow squash!!! SO nature obviously has given me a helping hand  ;D
I put in a real courgette down the other end of it so it won't all be a waste.

I rather think that there are a lot of people who would love feed back on this so please keep them and me posted.