Well, it's finally arrived. The drying gourd time.
So far, I've only seen 4 that weren't mature enuff when our first freeze killed the vines, so they are shrivelling.

(But I can still do something with them.) I've been told by experts, Never throw a gourd away, NEVER.



Thanksgiving, my darling grandlove and I counted them and there are 125 gourds. This first photo is a part of the dipper gourds. Some long neck, some medium necks.

On the back side of the fence, I allowed some to go out onto the ground, so the necks would curl up in interesting ways.


The picture below is the birdhouse gourds on a section of the backside of the fence.

There is almost that many on a section on the front side of the fence. They seemed to produce a lot more gourds!

I pulled this little birdhouse gourd off the fence this afternoon (it looked like the smallest one there) and brought it into the house.

Tomorrow I intend to scrub the outside skin off and get it down to the "wood."

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