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Friday, May 28, 2021

2021 My Husband Built Me A Bigger Gourd Arbor

After we  had such success growing our gourds on our thrown together make shift arbor  last year my husband realized we needed to make a real arbor & a bigger arbor for more gourds to grow 
These first pictures you see are from the gourd arbor /garden last year and yes it was basically thrown together.... but it worked & worked better than we thought , so that's when we decided  we needed to make a better arbor! In all the pictures below is the making of our new Gourd Garden Arbor !!


Last Years Gourd Arbor 
Last years arbor after the gourds were removed





Taking down the old & starting the new 
deciding how many rows he wants 

putting the poles in 
This is the starting of the new arbor ...my husbands version of a arbor  and his version is turning out pretty good ! 




aside view of the arbor
The poles are set and he has three full rows of poles with the arch/arbor poles across the top , Then he put chicken wire & fencing  and put it on to of the arbor and tacked it down , He also put chicken wire up between the poles so the gourds will be able to climb.


a picture of it from the side 





















This is the finished Gourd Arbor it measures 12 ft X 22 foot and has 4 rows of gourds growing and one row of sunflowers (which are planted on the outside of the arbor )
It's been about 3 weeks since I took All these pictures and we planted seeds and some gourd starts that I had already started a couple of weeks earlier.

 We hope you likes our blog about the building of our newly designed gourd arbor. Stop back by and I will be posting a series about how the gourd garden is growing! 

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Sunday, May 9, 2021

Our 2020 Arbor Gourd Garden

Last year we decided to put in a gourd garden  2020 , we had put a gourd garden in a couple of years ago & we had plenty of gourds but  they were Not  good ! by that I mean thin  when you put a drill to them to put the bird hole in they cracked almost  every time ! So we buy them have for years . So last year I wanted my husband to fix me an arbor for them to grow on I needed to get them off the ground ( our soil here where we live in Tennessee its not good for growing unless you put in a square foot garden. it's full of shale rock ! )  

large bottle growing on top of the arbor 

Martin & Bottle gourds hanging under the arbor 

But where we put our arbor up it was a spot where we have been tilling it up every year  wanting to try a gourd garden again &  well these are some pictures of our Arbor Gourd Garden of 2020 ! We were thrilled ! We did a video Instagram Series for our Instagram page from the start of our gourd garden, arbor and season ending you can find our page here & Look under IGTV  www.Instagram.com/in_my_painted_garden

The gourd vines growing up & over the arbor 

We also posted the series and extras to our Pinterest page you can find it here :  www.pinterest.com/inmypaintedgarden 


 We had 31 gourds total 4 large Martin house .some medium martin house about 25  and about 5  bottle  & one large bottle that is one of the ones that grew on top of the arbor . A lot of the gourds grew through the top of the arbor like they are suppose too so they hang within the arbor  Like the picture below.

baby gourds growing through the top of the arbor 

The gourd vines have completely covered the arbor 

The inside of the arbor looks like a tunnel 

Inside the arbor is so peaceful and pretty, I loved walking through it yes admiring the gourds as they grew making sure there were no bugs or critters on them and just hoping that  they would all have a good gourd skin ( the shell ) and that they would be of a good size and somewhat thick ....



Morning Glories growing on the Adirondack Chairs 
some of the hanging gourds 


These are just some of the pictures from inside the gourd arbor 




gourds and winter
We and most folks who grow gourds leave them hanging on the vine that they have grown on through the fall and winter months because they need to cure and dry. Ours this year went through a snow then a ice storm they were covered in 3/4 inch of ice and it didn't hurt them at all ! They did GREAT !
ice on the arbor 


 
They survived the snow & Ice Storm Just Fine 


When we cut into our gourds we were thrilled !! They turned out BEAUTIFUL & Thick !! 


So this year my husband built me an  even bigger arbor for our gourds to grow on ! I will be posting another blog with pictures of him building it ! It's finished and we have gourds that have been planted by seed that some I started in peat pots and seed just planted right in the soil . Last year I didn't start them in pots we just put the seed in the ground and watched them come up !

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Saturday, February 20, 2021

Frozen In Time The Gourd Garden


The Top Of The Gourd Arbor 
  We had an ice storm come through last week so I decided to go  out to the Gourd Garden & see what it looked like and actually I thought it was just Beautiful !!  So I took some pictures and a video and wanted to share them with you ! Video is below !

The Gourds Covered In Ice 

A Better Picture Of The Gourd Arbor Top

The gourds are Loving the cold it doesn't bother them at all in fact it helps to cure them. You don't ever want to take them inside or anyplace warm! When I first started growing gourds when we lived in Michigan. I thought I had to cut them off the vine and hang them by string in the house , I soon found out the warmth (until they are completely cured usually about 6 months or so ) will dry them out too fast and they all started to shrivel up or just plain shrivel to nothing reconcilable ! Yep that can happen !! 


 



We hope you enjoyed taking a look at our gourd garden after the ice & snow storm of 2021 decided to cover the garden in a 1/2 inch of ice ! I thought it actually was pretty and interesting the way the ice forms on any and all it comes in contact with ! I'm used to snow being from Michigan but We have lived here 14 years and this is the first time we have had this much ice & snow ! We hope you are all staying safe & warm ! Thank You Checking us out !  Comments Are Welcome ! If You Like Us Please Follow Us On here , Pinterest , Instagram , Twitter & Facebook


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