Goodness, it's gourds
Series: Carol OMeara | Story 3
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October 9, 2019
Nino Barbieri Creative Commons
Many decorative gourds or ornamental gourds have long necks or warty skins, and are closely related to squash and pumpkins.
I picked up a packet of gourd seeds last spring with the thought that some of the little, colorful things would look great in my fall décor. I imagined tucking them into nooks near pumpkins, by straw bales and corn stalks, even hot gluing them onto a fall wreath. I should have stopped daydreaming and read the seed packet instead.
What these plants produced are not the four-inch, green-yellow...
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