Saturday, September 17, 2011

Harvesting the Gourds




E. and I spent a chunk of yesterday afternoon harvesting the gourds. We didn't have as big a yield as we did other years - probably because I planted a whole bunch of older seeds to see what was good and what wasn't, and a lot weren't! All the rain we had rotted a bunch as well. But we did get a few Cinderella pumpkins, a dozen or so Jack Be Littles and our biggest yield - green birdhouse gourds which came from a fresh packet of seeds that a friend gave me for St. Patrick's Day. Eli did all the decorating on the front and back porches -

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