The squash took over

Last year I let some volunteer ornamental squash grow over the pachysandra. My reward was a bunch of nice new ornamental squash that helped decorate the sukkah. So when I saw a couple of plants growing in similar places, I thought, why not?

So I found out why not. These things grew like crazy. So this evening I went out and hacked a bunch of them away to make room for peas and kholrabi and things. Don't worry---I left plenty (although I might well have fatally trimmed the plants, who knows).