Re: Gourd

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• Subject: Re: [CHAT] Gourd
• From: Cathy Carpenter c*@insightbb.com
• Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 15:22:02 -0500
• In-reply-to: 000901c58105$472fc620$6401a8c0@Justme
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Better a gourd than Osage orange fruit! (I have to get out of the  
sun...)

Cathy, west central IL, z5b

On Jul 4, 2005, at 9:00 PM, Donna wrote:

> 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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