I'd tried growing gourds before but by the end of the season they really hadn't made much of an effort. A few flowers maybe, a couple of promising little bulges, but nothing to realise my plans of carving and painting my own birdhouses. It occurred to me that it probably needed a longer growing season, coming from hotter climes, and that as I didn't have a greenhouse to start one from seed early enough, I should, as soon I could, obtain a ready-to-go plant early in the spring. I decided to tr...
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