Homesteading in Hawaii

"P" asked, "If you are hand pollinating, where do you get the pollen from?"  The pollen comes from the male flowers, whi...

"J" emailed to ask, "What do the seeds look like?" So here's the seeds that I saved from the gourd..... Yes, they al...

Instructions from gourd master artist: 1- use a saw to cut the top off the gourd  2- watch out because the gourd will vomit all over your sh...

Bear with me on this one. I haven't the foggiest idea what I'm doing and where it will lead. I've got this giant gourd that has ...

This is great!!!  One of the blog followers came up with this. I'm a big advocate of using what you have on hand.  So S.J. wanted to pro...

A large rat-chewed hole in one of the prized gourds.  The rat that ate the small gourd last week, leaving it looking like an apple cor...

I drove down to the Mark Twain (arid farm) land to water the plants and had a pleasant discovery. The first baby gourd has set! Wow, I had...