Re: gourds
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- Subject: Re: gourds
- From: M* L* <m*@micron.net>
- Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 13:08:01 -0600
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At 12:36 PM 10/19/98 -0500, ROSS E STANFORD wrote:
>
>On Mon, 19 Oct 1998 08:44:09 EDT Kristonyji@aol.com writes:
>>In order to dry gourds, leave them on the vine until the vine dries up
>>and
>>dies. Then you just leave the gourds alone. Don't worry about mold,
>>after
>>they dry that wipes right off. You will know they are dry when the
>>seeds
>>rattle inside. Takes a long time though...Good luck!
>>
>Whoops! Too late. Once the vines were killed by the frost,
>I picked them and brought them into the house to dry in
>a warm dry place. Thanks anyway.
>
>Stan the cheap and lazy gardener
>
You can only let white flowering gourds stay outside. Yellow flowering
gourds will be damaged by frost, and I think that's what Stan has. Margaret
