Toni you don't want pre-planted morning glories! I had never seen them in a nursery, there's a good reason. I stumbled across some last summer at a local plant stand. I thought once I got them out of the nursery pot they would do like any other morning glory, not so For some reason they were just puny. I also tried growing some of my own in pots, hardly did a thing. I guess that little seed can tell the difference between pots and the good old Earth! You'll be better off planting your own from seed. I did learn to soak the seeds for a day or two before planting to soften them up. Has anyone had similar experience or was mine just a fluke? Deanna :-D
I have to tell you toni.I grew Bushel gourds one time my vines were great and I had lots of gourds all got no bigger than my fist but one and it grew and grew. It grew and got hugh.I have no clue what happened to the one that got so big.I lost interest but didn't really care about them back thenbecause I thought It you can't eat it it doesn't matter but now it does.Good luck.
Glenda, in the helpful tips on the seed packet it says to keep each vine trimmed to only one gourd per vine, that way you will have the really large ones. That might be what happened to yours.
Bushel gourds... They are fun, aren't they? My mother, until she moved here, used to travel from New Mexico to our home to choose a gourd or two or three or bags full. She then would take them back home to paint them. Here is a site which features some of her work with gourds: http://happypages.com/ClubGourd/ivaslater.html Glendann, here is what Mom did with half a Bushel gourd. It is a large bowl used for serving tortilla chips. Karen Marie
Wow! Karen, I can see where your wonderful talent comes from. Your mom's creations are just beautiful, every last one of them, I adore the bee skep gourd!
Toni its a diease its not your fault I suffer the same malady . I think the seed racks beckon to us and we are helpless. Sadly I don't think there is a cure.
Oh so pretty That goes with my Quesadilla and Crockpot perfect. jubabes dad (my brother)gave me for Christmas.I will have to find some of those seeds. Toni way back years ago they didn't explain that on the back.Thats probably why mine grew bad.
Richard, I have also found that this uncontrollable malady readily mutates when the infected persons interests change. And can split itself off into sub-species. Years ago the symptoms for me were not being able to pass a fabric/quilt shop without 'just having a peek' at what they had to offer, that progressed into waiting until Randy was alseep to empty the trunk of my car of my fabric purchases....then learning how to say quite innocently 'What this fabric? No I have had it for months' Then after 18 years it became aware it was time to mutate when I put away my sewing machine and quilting needles and picked up the long neglected knitting needles - it became a passion for finding local yarn shops, online yarn shops and ebay offerings. That mutation figured out quickly that it needed to split itself to create in me the need to find garden centers to visit. The catalog buying need was kept buried for several years even tho each January did bring the seed catalogs in the mail. But this year after what appears to be the required incubation period, the seed buying version of the addiction has surfaced.
It also can mutate into LPitis that was my first case could not pass a record store without "just looking" wound up with about 400 albumns. The seed virus is a little cheaper however, who knows whats next.
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