I am not sure if I should be hopeful for these gourds, or assume the worst and that they will rot by the time I try to make them into birdhouses. Okay, let's look on the rosy side and hope that at least one of them is going to make it.
I have been keeping them in my closet (the coolest, darkest place in my house) and checking them every now and then, wiping them clean in hopes that they will not fall apart before I go to carve them. I want to take them to the Saginaw Farmers Market this summer (it opens Memorial Day weekend) and demonstrate how to do it at the Master Gardener's table. The Saginaw Valley Master Gardener Association has a table with lots of gardening information every Friday from 10:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. throughout the summer and into September.
So if you are in the area, stop on by. Do you need to know how to dry gourds? Gourd drying can get you started.
I don't know if I can be this creative but Dave's Garden sure has a lot of good ideas for these gourds.
Enough of this. Time to get back to my morning coffee.
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