I decided to sow my gourds today.

Cavemans
Basket
speckled swan
a snake type I think(cucuzz caravazzi UK)
penquin
long neck
gallon
Bowl
Hopi rattlesnake-native gourd
apple gourd
luffa spounge
birdhouse
and more luffa

seems most of what I've got are hardshells most averageing 95-120-125 days.

I'd like dolphin orange ball or kettle(man just let me have ONE kettle.I'll plant my dr suess in it and will look good at halloween!

I'm doing castor beans when back from bus stop and turn that veggie bed some more.old rusted gas tank is SITTING in the garage.I asked if I could go to richards for a tank and he said he'd go......He's fishing.quit job saturday.got a new one today picks tools& check wensday delivers tool to work and will start monday.I bet he fishes the whole time.Wonder how he'd like tiller gas tank for dinner????

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I'll be glad when I can plant mine, won't be long. I wanna start working on my trellis for them next week So I'll be ready to plant when it's time for them

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I'll have to look that one up. I have a bunch of old tree limbs. Do you do your on a trellis? This will be my first year to grow gourds and I don't really know a thing aBOUT IT oops caps, not even sure what all kinds I have.
Do I need one big trellis, or a trellis for each one?

I have to go to the bank today so won't be able to look it up til later.

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I try to take one day at a time -- but sometimes several days attack me at once.
-Jennifer Unlimited-

so they don't have to be real tall.

I have some chicken wire, do you think they would climb that?

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I try to take one day at a time -- but sometimes several days attack me at once.
-Jennifer Unlimited-

I thought about that too. I have some caveman gourd seeds. I know those will need to be higher. I think I'll try some of those made from the wood too. I have pleanty of sticks. I'l like you I'm pooor too.

I wanna try craving some, my mom got me a book on how to do that this year for christmas. Some are so pretty I can't wait now to get my gourds up, grown, and dried.

I have a full sun location all picked out. So I need to get my trellises started. Which like you say would be easier with MONEY

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I try to take one day at a time -- but sometimes several days attack me at once.
-Jennifer Unlimited-

One thing I did hear in a tv special about
doing the gourds, when it dries and you are scraping off the outter dried skin, wear a
mask or something to cover your face, or
down wind or up wind, **which ever way is away from the dust* when sanding it off,
IT'S TOXIC!!!!
You're not supposed to breath it in...

Weezie

P/S You have alot of gourds...
What fun you must have!!!!

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Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have
done this have entertained angels without realizing it.
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Here's some aritcles on it!!!

Health and Safety: The Risk to Gourd Workers

Alot of info on making them and a small portion about the dust.

Weezie

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done this have entertained angels without realizing it.
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Here's one for the LUFFA SPONGE...
I wished we would have this info
when we did these???

Luffa sponges / Also on how to make luffa soap...

Weezie

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I dont' know how to bookmark. Will we be able to pull this up later?

How warm does it have to be to plant the seeds?

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They say to plant once danger of frost is past.also it sends a root dow THEN pops a leaf up out of ground.some folks sow in pots and transplant to garden after frost cause have short grow season.The hardshells take on average 95-100-120-125 days.and the bushel& kettle gourds can weigh up to 100 lbs and those are the ones to be grown on ground.snake gourds can be grown either,I believe Robbie explained it as they made gun powder horns if greww hung and snakes if grow on ground cause would curl.
they also have "gourd molds" out.are some nice chinese ones with flower imprints,but they don't give you a choice. The ornamental gourds are less time,are like the ones yousee alot in thanksgiving the crown of thorns, turks turbin,orange ball,egg gourd,spiked ball,some are striped.

I'm growing on my chain link fence& the back of yard is fenced with cattle panals so are some ina section back there too.Robbie said today mne may not sprout for another 3 weeks,his were down a week before mine(yeah....HE had a tiller to use...........not HARD labor!)I tilled rabbit poo and pine needles where was sowing my gourd seeds around fence.will go around next week with compost dressing and waiting on my manure tea to bubble.we seem to get alot of clouds lately.
I will have cattle fenceing around my garden Monday after hubby leaves for work and will sow some more gourds here& think I will make a scarecrow.I have to fence my veggie bed to keep the dogs out of it.they won't stay out and its not even planted yet.they keep helping me dig....but they removed my onions& I know which one did it too.She smells like she ROLLED in them.

You can make slings for your gourds.what I did with my birdhouse one was taped a top hook of hanger to part of vine tip and when vine dried I cut vine and hung by its hanger& Robbie told me when the blossom came off end,i could wrap wire around the top and would grow into gourd.when he shows me on mine will post pics.

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I planted a package of mixed gourd seeds, and I tho't they were to be planted like zucchini or squash. I think that's what mine are, mini zucchini squash and the likes.

This is my first year with gourds and I had no idea really what I was getting into.

Good to read all the posts.

I was planning on drying mine and using them in harvest baskets for show. Am I on the right track.

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I got small white flowers on some in the sunflower bed area& can say they ain't the birdhouse ones.I would guess swan gourd???The luffas are starting to pick the pace up and are now starting to climb.

I do have some birdhouse gourd seed if anyone wants to grow some.They are hardshell take about 120+ days.
I have a row of 'some-kind-of-gourd' in a gardenbed strip with pumpkins,squash,zuccini,cucumber,watermelon canelope.pumpkins banana peppers.whats strange...Is I hand pollinate& got a watermelon forming that I'm still waiting on a male to hand pollinate a female flower with.....
I'll try to rember a flowershot.I'm going to party a this evening.so may be incognito.

Weezie...ya see He FINALLY did My BEDS!!!!!I got an additional Hex.The timbers I moved to form barrier down fence line....He left in place& even nailed them Now I'm waiting for the garden claw.... & my water lotus is up to 12 leafs now.

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