Mostly we use our compost bin as a way to reduce what we send to the solid waste stream. You just keep putting it in and it keeps fitting. But, every 3 or 4 years, you do have to take a bunch out.
This year, we put a bunch of compost on a raised bed we'd made a few years ago, and planted some flowers. We did get a few flowers, but mostly what we got was: Squash plants. Including, surprisingly, significant-looking squashes on the vines:
We waited patiently, even watered them. Mostly our approach to gardening is "let it grow or die without interference", but occasionally we help things along (in both directions). The squash prospered, and when the plants began to die in the fall, we harvested them. We got several sizeable ones:
Including a lovely small pumpkin:
And a lot of really tiny cute ones:
They're all completely random hybrids. We cooked the four large ones, after letting them ripen for a week or two. The skins were thick and tough, despite them looking like delicata, they were anything but delicate.
Three of them had a little spaghetti-squash-like attributes, though they didn't really spaghetti-up all that well, the strands were pretty short. They were pretty flavor-free. One squash had more flavor, with maybe a hint of pumpkin, but it wasn't as yummy as an acorn squash or anything like that. After we all had a spoonful, I turned it into Squash Squares, on the theory that anything is good with pumpkin pie spice... Then I ran the boring squash through the cuisinart, and froze it in 3/4 cup alliquots, for the purpose of using instead of applesauce when I substitute half the butter in a cookie recipe. It was that or throw it out...