Articles for tag: Birdhouses, Gourds, Growing Gourds, Music Instruments

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How to Make a Whale or Swan Gourd Birdhouse

I love crafting with gourds. Gourds can be turned into anything from birdhouses, to toys, lamps, purses, bowls, music instruments, to… you name it; the only limit is ones imagination. The neat thing about gourds is that three different people can look at the same good and see three or more different things it could ...

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How to Grow Gourds and Germinate Gourd Seeds

Growing gourds is a lot of fun. If you’ve never done this before, and you have a back yard that you don’t mind a single vine taking over – and perhaps even covering your porch and trellis – let us give you some insights on how to grow gourds. Gourd growing is really a lot ...

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Gourds: Ideas for Garden Art and More

Gourds are closely related to pumpkins and easy to grow in the garden. Growing gourds is not only easy but fun. They take on many forms and can be dried out and used for nearly any purpose. Gourd art goes back for thousands of years. Gourds were one of the first cultivated plants and were ...

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How to Prune Gourd Vines to Increase Gourd Fruit Production

There is a right way and a wrong way to prune gourd vines, if done right, you will increase gourd fruit production but if done improperly you can actually destroy successfully produced fruit. If you have read my previous articles on how to grow gourds, germinating gourd seeds, planting gourd seeds, and the growth cycle ...