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Tuesday, May 17, 2011
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shazzy
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Joliet, IL
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who is out of their gourds....I AM!!!!!!!!!!! i had to throw some row cover tied off to the fence the last 2 nights to avoid patchy frost. dipped down 38 two nights ago and 39 last night. close enough to cover these babies that sprouted in the heat last week. some damn animal ripped open the birdhouse i made to get to the eggs and ruined it. lesson, do not place a birdhouse in a tree close to where the garbage cans are cuz the varmints are already in the area. doh!!!!! with these sprouts, hopefully i will get many more chances. all i did was let them dry out in the gourd all winter and them remove them when i made the birdhouse. then into the soil along the fence that is juiced up with mostly organimix compost. they are silly fun plants to watch and the gourds are pretty green and white mottled colored and weird shape and hang from the fence and are maintenance free...except when they try to go on the roof of the house, the roof of the garage, the solarium roof (harvested 8 from on top of the solarium last year) up the ivy all the way to the roof with gourds hangin 15' in the air (7 taken from that area) up the tree (nipped those in the bud) and anywhere else they get there tendrils hooked onto. i put about 10 seeds in a hole staggered down the fence line, and from the looks of it, a good germiantion rate....lol. they will get thinned down by critters like earwigs under the deck and then by myself and the strongest will win the spots.
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