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My daughter had a pet pig that lived with our sheep. Thought it was a sheep. Well last early last November, a farm stand owner offered her a truck load of free pumpkins and squash. She brought that stuff home and parceled it out to the pig and his fellow sheep. This year we have volunteer pumpkins, squash, gourds etc coming up all over the place. There are a few pumpkins I already picked, some acorn squash growing next to the barn, at the top of the sheep pasture, down in the hollow, even in our back yard where we kept a few sheep for a week before we took them to market. One pumpkin in the back yard is already about 14 inches in diameter and is just starting to turn orange. However, there appears to be no butternut squash. The other volunteers are tomatoes. We had a fair supply of plum tomatoes growing next to the barn as well as some ground cherries which always come up here and there.