Beginner Gardening: Are these zucchini?, 1 by glendalekid

glendalekid wrote:
I bought zucchini plants this year as I was running behind on getting my garden planted. They were all supposed to be the long dark green zucchini.

About half of the plants are producing these odd-shaped fruit, and there are three colors, too. Each one starts out as either light green, dark green or striped, and they don't change color as they get bigger. Each color is from a different plant. The plants sure look like bush zucchini. My daughter says they are gourds, but I've never seen bush-type gourds, only vine gourds.

Karen