Birdhouse bottle gourds

So incredible, they hang there like little droplets one after another after another, can't wait for them to be fully grown as I'll start the process of turning them into birdhouses. But they're really making use of the ceiling netting.

Gourds gone crazy

The gourds are taking over the world, well not quite but look at them go! There are even little baby 'Caveman's club', so cute yet so strange.

Gourd frame

Thought I should give an update on the gourd frame. Oh my gourd it's gone crazy! Check it out and its only July...

Also setting fruit like this pumpkin...

Raised beds and gourd frame

Early June and mass planting begins proper. Planted out all tomato plants with marigold companions, salad crops like lolla rossa, coriander, basil, spring onions etc. Planted 3 pumpkins and one butternut inside the gourd frame and my climbing gourd varieties around the edges, every side of the frame is working hard to support produce including cucumbers and flowers like sunflowers and sweetpeas.

Gourd frame

Back in February I made this frame for the many climbing varieties of gourd I ordered, including the birdhouse bottle gourd for making, well birdhouses and the luffa gourd which climbs and sets fruit, which can be dried and peeled to reveal the inner skeleton-like structure, used in bathrooms up and down the country. I covered it last weekend, Sunday 20th May, in a wide netting.

The 'oh my gourd' climbing frame.

Remember them there for sale sign posts? Well I made this frame for growing gourds up in the summer. Still have to get the netting with large mesh. I've got a few unusual varieties like the birdhouse bottle neck gourd and luffa gourd, both of which climb.