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Birdhouse Gourd: First Snow
Okay, not really snow per se, but the birdhouse gourd flower is snow-white. I’m sure the seed packet said something about white flowers, but I’ve been so focused on the gourds to come, that it took...
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Birdhouse Gourd: Found a Peanut?
I’ve encountered more surprises from our Birdhouse Gourd vine. The early fruit looks just like a peanut! Aren’t they cute? The first budding fruit was round, but the newer ones are all shaped like a...
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Birdhouse Gourd: Numbered Days?
The watched pot never boils, and the watched gourd never grows. Or so it seems… Now that I’ve filled one of the planting beds with an assortment of winter vegetables, I’ve turned my attention to the...
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Harvesting the Gourds: I Grew a Pair
It’s pouring today. (I love it). Good thing I cleaned the garden box when I did. After a midweek frost, the birdhouse gourd vines shriveled up. I cut down the last of them and brought the pair of...
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Waiting for ‘DaGourds
Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot was required reading during my college days. It’s summarized as an absurdest play, with two men waiting in vain for the arrival of someone named Godot....
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Brown is the New Green
In most gardens green is good. Brown, not so much. That old saw gets turned on its ear, however when you’re drying birdhouse gourds. I planted these gourds from seed for the first time last summer....
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