Last spring Poor Suffering Husband bought me a packet of birdhouse gourd seeds. I was about a month late planting them and as there were only 12 seeds, I didn't really expect a whole lot to happen. So I put them in the ground along the front fence and waited.
I didn't have to wait long, maybe a week, before the first little leaves appeared...
And then they grew...
And got baby gourds...
And the baby gourds got bigger...
And the leaves got bigger...
And the BUGS got bigger...
Now I have a couple of hundred gourds waiting to be turned into this:
Oh that pun never gets old!
For anyone else thinking of growing gourds, here is a quick start-up guide:
Gourd one :-)
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