Thread: Cucurbita Love!
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Old 02-06-2006, 05:10 AM posted to rec.gardens.edible
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Default Cucurbita Love!

Yaaaaay gourds! This completely useless message has been crafted for
the sole purpose of celebrating the gourd madness that is summer! I've
got baby melons and squashes and vines all over the place, and I hope
y'all's are doing as well as mine.

The birdhouse gourds are particularly fertile. This is my first time
with this plant, so watching the little baby gourds spring up all along
the vines is really cool. Of course, I overplanted, and so now I have
vines growing all over my trellis, up my tomato supports, climbing the
trees, growing over the bench, falling over the lawn...my Phx Az yard
looks like the set of a Tarzan film! Once those vines get going they
don't slow down.

To the fantastic person who asked for seeds - I haven't forgotten you,
I've just been crazy busy with school and work. I have Sunday off, and
will be sending your seeds then.

So, guys, when these eight million little birdhouse gourds ripen and
fall, what should I do with them? Thanks to all their foliage, I
already have eight million birds!