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Autumn has officially arrived - and with it, those wonderful little gourds and pumpkins that appear this time of year.
Gourds often require 110-120 days to mature. Start the seeds inside about two weeks before the last frost. Keep the gourds on the vine as long as possible. Jennifer Behm often covers them to ...
If I plant gourds again (talk me out of it, won't you?), maybe I'll want to try something different from the dippers I've already grown. (They are definitely worth growing in a smallish garden ...
Learn how to make gourd jewelry. You can make unique wearable art by decorating dried hard-shelled gourds. Originally published as "Country Lore: Make Gourd Jewelry" August/September 2008 MOTHER ...
She often took along a few gourds to sell. When the gourd pieces started moving faster than her pastels, Wierenga took that as a sign to make more gourd art.
Anyone of any ability can take classes at Baskets and Gourds – Containers of Our Culture VI held at the Elk’s Lodge, April 23 and 24. Fifteen teachers are coming from across the country to ...
Priscilla Wilson first considered the gourd in 1974, when she and her future wife, Janice Lymburner, decided to make planters for their mothers out of gourds purchased from a roadside vendor in ...