Gourd advice needed...

[FunkyFlowerpot]

Evening all,
I have a few bottle gourds growing beautifully in my lottie but need good advice from you experts out there on how to dry them properly so I can craft with them.
I know you're supposed to leave them on the vine as long as possible but what then?
Thanking you in anticipation.
Funky
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[rustylady]

Just that really. Leave them on the vine and when you do cut them take as much of the "stem" as you can.

[rustylady]

By the way, you told us in an earlier post that you are in Colchester. Could you please add that to your profile? Then it will show on your posts and we won't have to keep asking you.

[FunkyFlowerpot]

Hi Rusty, yes I will add when I get on a PC, I can't do it from an app.

Do you know the best way to dry them?


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[rustylady]

They should be pretty ripe and hard when you harvest them (around the end of September). If they need further drying then place them somewhere airy (on a rack maybe).

What exactly are you going to make with them?

[rustylady]

Oh wow - I just found this by googling http://www.welburngourds.com/downloa...ftingGuide.pdf

[FunkyFlowerpot]

Indeed - wow!
Thanks everso Rusty, I hadn't found that one before.
I really don't think any of mine will be as beautiful as those, I intend to make natural bird houses, bowls & garden oddities from mine.
It's my 1st year of growing so who knows what will happen next - quite exciting though!
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