OK well what I really mean is my gourds are going Naked ....Oops Natural at least the ones that have the BEAUTIFUL Marbled finish of their own , but Not all of them have a Beautiful Natural finish!
When your gourds are growing in the garden , there is really not a lot you have to do to take care of them. They just vine all over the place and make their own way in the garden ! Now if you really want to get technical your can go out and pollinate your own flowers but that's for a different blog story.
The SOIL is the key to a GREAT gourd garden .! But at the end of the growing season DO NOT PICK THEM you leave them right where they lay until spring and by then most of them have fallen or wilted off the vines and they should be all nasty looking MOLDY and the more they are molded that means that the gourd has gone full circle and usually the more moldy the thicker the gourd ! I have had customers tell us that they were all molded and threw them away NO not unless they have collapsed or caved in or you can put your finger through them then they are rotten and THROW them away !!
The SOIL is the key to a GREAT gourd garden .! But at the end of the growing season DO NOT PICK THEM you leave them right where they lay until spring and by then most of them have fallen or wilted off the vines and they should be all nasty looking MOLDY and the more they are molded that means that the gourd has gone full circle and usually the more moldy the thicker the gourd ! I have had customers tell us that they were all molded and threw them away NO not unless they have collapsed or caved in or you can put your finger through them then they are rotten and THROW them away !!
But when they mold just right when you wash them off you see very often a BEAUTIFUL MARBLEIZED mold pattern. Sooooooo hence the idea to just paint a few of them on the natural gourd to see what they would turn out like ! 
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| Natural Gourd |
We bought and alot this year on a quite a few of them ( we still have 6 more giant bags of gourds to clean ) we started seeing that there was some BEAUTIFUL marbled patterns left from the mold, Usually we paint the whole gourd with a color then paint the design on them . Here's a few samples below " the Blue one I painted below with Colorful Hydrangeas is very similar to the one I painted on the Natural Birdhouse gourd with Bright Hydrangeas ...  |
| Gourd painted with Blue Surface |
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| side view |
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| Natural Gourd with Hydrangeas |
We put a post on our Facebook page asking what people think ,
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| Both side by side We really like both of them , but I get really picky about the plain gourd, I won't use them for a Natural look unless it has a NICE marbling going around on it .I'm sure we will continue to do both .We put a post on our Facebook page -inmypaintedgarden- asking what people liked better The Natural painted with a design or The all painted one with the design painted on it . So please leave a comment below and tell us what you think Natural or Painted ? PLEASE HELP >>>OUR CUSTOMERS OPINION MATTERS ! Thank You for stopping by our blog and we hope you enjoyed it ! Please comeback again ! Until The Next Time |
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