Re: Gourd

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• To: g*@hort.net
• Subject: Re: [CHAT] Gourd
• From: Jesse Bell s*@flash.net
• Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 16:28:10 -0700 (PDT)
• In-reply-to: 56b3ddb850b3e59909b0e77d217cd7b9@verizon.net

WOO HOO...Awesome Jim!  What are you going to do with them when they harden off?  Build birdhouses or something more creative?
 
Jess

james singer <islandjim1@verizon.net> wrote:
Following Jesse's advice, I let my one gourd vine climb. I don't have 
any real good place to have a controlled climb, so I let it climb a 
tree. Actually, a large shrub. This morning, I was setting some 
concrete pavers under that tree to form a pad for a garden bench. For 
no apparent reason I looked up in the tree, and there, 20 or so feet 
off the ground are six or seven very large bottle gourds and a few 
smaller ones.

When the vine dies and they harden off, I may have to rent a cherry 
picker to get them down, but I am nevertheless quite happy that it did 
what it was supposed to do.


Island Jim
Southwest Florida
27.0 N, 82.4 W
Hardiness Zone 10
Heat Zone 10
Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
Maximum 100 F [38 C]

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