Gourds often require 110-120 days to mature. Start the seeds inside about two weeks before the last frost. Keep the gourds on the vine as long as possible. Jennifer Behm often covers them to protect ...

If you are looking for ways to get more avian friends into your back yard, try an old-fashioned favorite: the gourd birdhouse. Gourds are easy and fun to grow at home, and you’ll usually find the ...

Using a small gourd you grow or buy, create this birdhouse, according to Marcie Evans, who grows gourds for birdhouses in Poquoson: 1. Select a dried gourd and clean the outside surface by soaking it ...

The standard definition is: Any of several trailing or climbing plants related to the pumpkin, squash and cucumber, bearing fruits with a hard rind. But gourds are also earrings, musical instruments, ...

If I plant gourds again (talk me out of it, won't you?), maybe I'll want to try something different from the dippers I've already grown. (They are definitely worth growing in a smallish garden — once.

As we go though life, it is amazing the things we get attached to and why we get attached. Some of the attachment is for sentimental reasons, and sometimes it is a favorite piece of clothing or tool, ...

Gardeners are always helping our feathered friends, often without thinking about it. Our trees and shrubs, even brush piles, provide shelter. Our native plants host the insects that feed them. We ...

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When a friend gave Carol Ann Short a gourd, she didn't realize it would add a new dimension to her volunteer work as a Montgomery County Master Gardener. Short has been raising gourds for four years ...

My friend Avi picked up a package of gourd seeds at the local garden shop this past spring. She just wanted something growing on the trellis in her back yard. She was feeling like Jack and the ...