RE: Gourd

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• To: g*@hort.net
• Subject: RE: [CHAT] Gourd
• From: "Donna" g*@sbcglobal.net
• Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 21:00:11 -0500
• In-reply-to: 56b3ddb850b3e59909b0e77d217cd7b9@verizon.net

I can see it now--- Jim relaxing on the bench and oops- gets hit in the head
with falling gourds...

TM1

> 
> 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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