gourds

Last spring, I bought a packet of "mixed small gourd seeds"  I
don't remember what brand but I just planted them and forgot them.
They came up wonderfully.  I grew them onto my "cucumber fence"
They seem to grow as easily as Zucchini.
     Anyway, now I have 4 varieties of gourds and didn't know what
to do with them.  
     Got an idea.  I think I will take the variety that looks likes
gourds
should look, (you know, the yellow ones with the long "trunk" usually
curved, and it looks like the bottom quarter has been dipped in green
paint) and give them out at Halloween.  Kids love gourds.  Yes, I will
also give candy, but I think the gourds would make the kids happy,
besides
what am I going to do with them.  
     Got another idea.  Maybe I could print up some instructions on
how to dry them and harvest the seeds to plant themselves next Spring.
Every  Halloween thereafter, I would use a different variety. 
     Big problem.  I have no idea on how to go about doing this.
     Help, give me some directions that I could copy.  Any body
out there know anything about gourds.

Stan           the cheap and lazy gardener
P.S.  I am not willing to accept advise from Allan or Steve or Ian.
         They would tell the poor little kids how to raise world class
         gourds.  Keep in mind, a little kids mind is..... well......not
that sophisticated, it is more like.....well.....like my mind.  They want
everything quick and easy.....yeah, well, kind of like me. "Quick and 
easy" (that was my motto in high school). The Cheap came at a 
latter date.  (AT a later date, not ON a latter date.)

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