Ok, remember the ‘landscaping’ with the hula hoop? Well, it’s coming along nicely!
I am rather pleased, and actually snapped a photo of the gourds themselves, which have become enormous!
Fall is on it’s way, so some of the leaves have shriveled. I wondered when the gourds would be ready to pick.
Well, it was a no-school day today, so the school agers on-site hastened the process. Their active soccer games knocked a fair amount of gourds off the fence – grrrrrrrr. Two split open, but I didn’t take a photo, I just chewed out the kids who did it.
Oh, and the mystery nut? We cut it open and on first glance I thought it was a walnut, except it smelled like Christmas. it also flaked apart in sap-oozing ‘petals’. i guessed it was from a Mexican pinyon oine, but it was a bald cypress pine cone. My thanks go to the uncle of one of my kids, who is a agronomist. (The uncle, not the kid.)
Did I update everything? Any loose ends out there?
Brad says
Do you have plans for the gourds once they are ripe/dry?
Peggy says
Ooo….I love the hula hoop archway! Maybe you could incorporate it into preschool graduation.