The name didn't sound familiar but that's sure what it looks like.
They
were quite fun to grow. I should do that again someday.
Cyndi
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From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf Of Jesse Bell
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 11:51 AM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: RE: [CHAT] OMG - it's weather!
Sounds like a corsican gourd to me. Google it and see if it looks
like
yours. They are GREAT to make things with.
Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSRT <cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil> wrote:
I like gourds, although I've only grown them once; can't remember what
they are called but they are a slightly flattened round gourd. Got a
great crop of them. I thought I would decorate them as bowls and
things.
Of course I didn't do that so years later I still have some sitting
around the patio in their natural state (it's dry here, you know, so
it's not like anything is going to decay). Every now and again I come
up
with a less complicated idea, my latest was to spray paint them in
bright colors and hang them from the trees like mobiles. Haven't done
that either. But I do have the spray paint...
Anyone ever grown the decorative ones you find in the stores in late
fall? Some of those are gourd-geous.
Cyndi
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From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf Of Jesse Bell
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 9:35 AM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] OMG - it's weather!
Did you grow gourds this year Jim? My dog planted some for me. I
bought
the seeds and was going to plant some, then walked outside one day and
realized that Kyla had torn open all of my seed packets and they were
scattered and/or eaten by her. Great. With the wet, wet spring I just
never bothered to plant them. Kyle did. She scattered them over to a
corner in the side yard and now I have four round gourds the size of a
basketball growing on my fence. I turned them this morning to keep an
indention from growing on one side where they hang on the fence.
They are getting HEAVY. They are cool. I've never grown this kind
before.
james singer wrote:
I know the feeling. I went to the Fresno County fair one year and the
winner in the gourd division [or whatever] was a bushel gourd that
could
have easily been called a 3-bushel gourd. It was as big as a nail
keg. I
was consumed with envy. I scribbled down the exhibitor's name and city
and tried to find him/her, but never did. If I had, I probably would
have been arrested for gourd stalking.
On Aug 30, 2007, at 10:58 AM, Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSRT wrote:
Look, up in the sky - too big for a bird, can't be a plane - no, they
are clouds! Clouds by golly and what is that bright light? Lightning!
And thunder! And - wait for it - RAIN! Okay so maybe it's only a
tenth
of an inch but there was definitely water falling from the sky, I can
see puddles. Didn't rain on me of course, I think when you want it
bad
enough it goes somewhere else. But we must have followed it all the
way into work.
It is still pretty warm though and yesterday was just seriously hot.
I
got into the car after my lunchtime yoga class and I was really
thirsty, decided to have a drink from the bottle of water I'd left in
the car. I knew it would be pretty warm water but I actually scalded
myself a little. Wow. We took the horses to our team penning lesson
at
7:00 and we were all out there sweating like horses, and not much
better at 11:00 when we got home. I don't know how you folks in humid
climates can do anything.
I am looking forward to 5 days at home starting tomorrow, although it
is supposed to be hot like this so I don't know how much gardening
I'll get done, but if I can't stand to be out there is still plenty
to
do inside.
My new range will show up Tuesday. Husband has the entire next week
off work and I'm steadily increasing the length of his honey-do list,
although it's more of a suggestion list in truth.
Our local paper had an article about the woman who has won the most
points in the fair's garden competition for the last five years. She
entered something like 82 categories!! I was consumed with jealousy.
Of course if I were retired like her I could probably do that too
(leaving aside the fact we now have other things to eat up our free
time when we're retired) but, but, I can't help it, I'm jealous.
Cyndi
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