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In My Painted Garden
We have hand carved hand painted gourds ,My husband & I LOVE to create together & share Our Creations . On Our blog you find out All we do with gourds.We like to travel and well you we hope this helps you to get to know us a little & what we enjoy doing ...
Saturday, February 12, 2022
Making Of A Gourd Bird Feeder Part 1
We will be posting a Video Series of All About Gourds! In This One My Husband John Will Be Showing How He Starts The Process Of Making A Bird Feeder Out Of A Gourd . If You Have Any Questions Please Ask ...
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 |
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 |
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 !!
We hoe you enjoyed our blog post and we hope that you stop on back to our blog and follow us !
Until Next Time ,
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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