Gourds Will Be Gourds Even When The Vine Dies

   Well our little lonely Rogue Gourd Plant has really produced very well.this summer (it was never planted just grew from a dropped seed ! )  

As you can see they have once again gone way beyond looking like it's just one plant and it has produced very large long neck bottles and one long neck gourd. So I do believe at some point and time it may have cross germinated from other seeds on the ground or .....

The feelers/runners that come off the plants and gives them the strong support system wrap themselves around anything it can grab onto  and unless you cut them off they stay year after year long after you've pulled all the dead vines off....

Of course  our dog Kaiden checking  them out hummm....

Tis the end of the growing season and all of the vines are dying off  and soon it will reveal just how many gourds we do have  .We think there are 5 or 6 big ones ! That's OK with us for not even planting any seeds  again this year. Actually 7 total I was sitting outside and looked over and there was the biggest one of them all hidden behind the bushes ! Not to see how thick they are when they dry if they are to thin they will just sink in and rot !  If they dry good then it will be time to put our thinking caps on and figure out what they will become !

Well now as you can see the vines are all dieing off and the bushes look terrible!  But not to worry as soon as we pull off the dead vines the bushes will be back to normal  !


I guess we will have to wait until next spring to see if maybe just Maybe another gourd vine shows up !!

                           
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