Gourds are used by crafters to create beautiful bird houses, along with other pieces of art. They are also used in remote areas of the world to make tools used in everyday life, such as bowls, and spoons. However buying gourds to make your own craft projects can be rather costly, and they are hard ...
Gourd identification is important. But with so many varieties of gourds, it can get confusing when people are looking for a specific shape to create something, or to envision what someone is referring to when they are trying to describe a particular gourd. Obviously, like anything else in life, this need for description gave rise ...
Fertilizing your gourds is important to insuring a healthy garden and a healthy crop. There are so many fertilizers out there, what is the best and safest way to go? No matter what claims are out there, my vote is, hands down, on organic fertilizers, and primarily fish emulsion with kelp extract added. You may ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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