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…
[...] As a side note the gourds I harvested this fall are slowly hardening… I think. It’s a very strange process and I’m not sure how many of them are going to make it. Some of them have rotted (most of the ones that did are ones I expected to but there were a few surprises). There are some that look like they’re rotting but when you tap on them they’re still hard and sound okay – I guess, not that’d I’d really know for sure since this is the first year for this. But we’ll see how it goes. You can check them out in the green-on-the-vine-glory here. [...]