So the Gourds have eaten half the garden… and tried to take over the neighbors yard and the street for that matter. Apparently gourds cross breed – a problem I’ve had all across the garden, but lesson learned and the gourds look cool anyway. The leaves are getting a little die back thanks to the abnormally cool weather so it’s lots of fun to go out and see if I can spy any new gourd goodness on any given day. Hopefully the vines don’t die back too fast… the gourds have to lose a certain percentage of water before the vines give out, otherwise they’ll just rot… and then Judy B will be depressed!
Most of the gourds appear to have leaned towards the cannonball and bushel gourd persausion. There’s 2 snake gourds that I can find… one is really fat and about 3 feet long. I’ve only found 1 dipper gourd and it looks more like one of those penguin/swan gourds.
The gourds taking over the next section of the garden…
And shamefully… this is the grass taking over the rest of the garden…
