Re: gourds
- To: "ROSS E STANFORD" <p*@juno.com>, <v*@eskimo.com>
- Subject: Re: gourds
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- Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 22:18:45 -0700
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You'll find the complete gourd FAQ at
http://www.hal-pc.org/~jstacy/page9.html
Denise McCann Beck / Earth Island Organics
USDA Zone 7
Sunset Western 4
Coastal Bristish Columbia
-----Original Message-----
From: ROSS E STANFORD <pattie@juno.com>
To: veggie-list@eskimo.com <veggie-list@eskimo.com>
Date: Sunday, October 18, 1998 8:55 PM
Subject: 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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