We Had No Idea Birdhouse Gourds Would Grow So Well!
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- This week we had our first frost of the fall. It wasn't a bad frost but it made us realize that it is time for the gardening season to come to and end. Our birdhouse gourds have done amazing all summer and we are excited to start harvesting them.
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In Mexico my family turns these gourds into canteens they hold a lot of water and keep cooler than plastic.
Norma Gutierrez Montagnard indigenous ,we used to hold water too it’s better than plastic bottle.
How do you cap it?
Wow... that's interesting.
@@homebodyheaven6114 A properly sized cork, I would guess.
Great
Back home in Nigeria we dry them and make them into musical instruments called marakette
Why don't you eat them? Can the be eaten?
@@demigoddessthechosenrace3015 The birdhouse gourds were never designed to be eaten.
We use them to make berimbaus for capoeira
My Aunt grew birdhouse gourds on about an acre, they do require about a year to cure if you don’t drain them. To speed up the process we drilled four holes in the bottom of each gourd, stored them upright on newspaper in her barn over the winter so they were ready by mid Spring. The holes serve as rain drainage once they are turned into birdhouses and feeders. We used either a 1/8 to 1/4 inch bit.
Absolutely GOURDOUS!!!
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Last spring I hung a bunch (dried ones) of these in a a big maple tree. Wrens moved in like mad. Have a little tree swing I relax in just to watch them build nests and hear them sing. They eventualy get freindly and the babies would stick their heads out the hole and chirp at me like I was mama.
Those with brown stems you can use for crafts. The one with green stems not very matured ones you can cook. They are very gòod vegies, taste great. They are very prolific. I actually grew round ones. They are very common in Asia. Try this simple recipe. Peel the skin the way you would a cucumber or a honeydew melon. Remove the seeds and cut in strips or small julienne cut. Saute some onions, add some tomatoes and some ground pork if you wish, add soy sauce or some fish sauce if avallable in your area then add the gourd. Put a little water to cook the gourd until soft but not soggy. Add a bit of salt and ground pepper, to taste. Lots of ways to cook it.
Thanks for posting this. I was actually just wondering if one can eat gourds or if they're only to decorate!
Me too! Thanks for the education, G V !
I also wondered! So cool!💜
Thanks for sharing!
In Mauritius we use it regularly as vegetable. There are different ways of cooking it.
Try sauteing with sardines..taste good too..
Actually, frost doesn't harm them at all...in fact, it's easiest to leave them hanging through the winter unpicked, and they will be completely dry and ready to use come spring!
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how many people went 'n-n-n' trying to figure out what code she was using, hehe
I wondered! Thx 👍
It easier just to leave them alone. Even after winter wont hurt just makes them easier to clean.
First time viewer. I just watched the luffa gourds and I was amazed. Never did I know that before. Thanks. and I love your channel so far.
JadeBlackWolf me too!!! I never knew that’s where they came from!
Same!
They make great Purple Martin houses . Hang them in clusters of 4 . Hang them about 30 feet away from trees barns etc. and about 20 feet off the ground . They will eat a lot of bugs ! Once they establish a good place to stay they will come back every year ! Keep a record of when you see them coming in and watch the next year , they will be back around the same time !!!
I know this is an old video, but you just bring joy to my day. You your excitement really wears off, and you make me want to try new things with my garden. Thanks!
Definitely sell them. There are gourd clubs that need them to paint, carve and decorate and then they sell them and/or enter contests in their clubs.
Really?? I've *never* heard of this! I learn something new every day from TH-cam.
Sue Glass my brother paints them he grew them a few years ago
This cattle fencing u-shaped trellising setup for your gourds was the most beautiful gardening project I've ever seen! I think this is a fantastic idea and particularly for me, as I am running out of space to grow melons and squash in a field setting (we just put it all into field strawberries and corn), but using this method I think I could grow them in my dedicated garden, which I have avoided doing in the past because of their out of control, sprawling and messy nature! I have garden rows spaced apart with 4 foot center to center, so using a total of 3 of my rows, this should create a nice shaded center row with two rows of either melons or squash on the 2 outer rows. This could be beneficial for growing salad greens or peas in that center row, possibly in the hot months of july and august! Now that would be some awesome plant synergy! Next season I have got to give this a try. Thanks for showing us your very creative gourd project, it was truly beautiful and artistic just like you said! Kudos.
I'm going to have to do that next year... for shade for my tomatoes! Our multiple weeks of triple-digit temperatures are really hard on tomatoes - and other living things.
I planted gourds this year and they took over. As John Craftenworth said, they're messy. Took over 60 feet of cyclone fence, two small pecan trees, a Red Bud tree, a phone pole, and the neighbor's yard. (Fortunately, he moved out to the lake years ago, so he won't care.)
Good for cukes, green beans and yellow squash and zucchini. Could do cantelope if you can put a support under each.
I use cattle panels or hog panels for housing and shade, even storage. They are very versatile.
You should check out Roots and Refuge. She's got some awesome videos on this.
Gourd plants can grow up trees pretty well too. They will eventually fall down, and be ready to use.
SO AWESOME! I work at Amazon and literally saw a packet of loufa seeds last week, I had No clue they came from a gourd! Always thought it was from the ocean 😂
So this is super cool you showed them.
They did used to come from the ocean and some still do but this is a much more sustainable source so is becoming more and more popular!
This sounds cool, think I'll grow some this year!! How do you get hired at Amazon, my son is looking for work. Have a blessed day! 💕
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I'm growing my birdhouse gourds and my loofah gourds they are coming along pretty good I've been growing birdhouse gourds now for 7 years love them great projects
Birdhouse gourds and Luffas are edible when they are young and haven't matured. usually pick them when they are 30%-50% their mature size before the get hard. Luffas are very tasty actually. you can cook them like zucchini, just peel the skin and slice up and saute with onions.
ltrinh6106 and it's also fragrant too. We use to have it in our vegetable soup or stew.
Sounds awesome. Who knew?! Thanks for the education Itrinh6106 .
They’re actually one of our every day vegetable in where I come from
If you pick them early like that, will they keep for a long time in the cellar like squash?
Love your Gourds.....I've been raising them for 25 years. Love it and love the Birdhouses I make out of them!!! One year aired 27 different gourds. Should leave them on vine and let them dry naturally. Harvest them in early spring when seeds raddle. Their beautiful.
I have a packet of seeds. It says to plant now in my zone. Hopefully planting today. These things are awesome. Used to raise these years ago.
How are they doing Vickie?
You crack me up! Your enthusiasm and energy is contagious! I had some loofah’s and seeds gifted to me. I pulled up your videos on that and that led me to this video. Now I’m HAVE to get me some birdhouse seeds a try this! Thank you for sharing.
What a treat this video was. ~Smile!
Missouri has the Show Me Gourd Society 😊👍
I love the country sounds of crickets and other insects. No city sounds. Thank you for this video.
They are amazing! I couldn't stop smiling watching this video! Thanks that was so much fun just watching how happy Sara was, and I must say I think they are beautiful!
I found this video about 7 months ago and decided I would try to grow the luffa and bird house gourds in 2019, it’s almost spring and I’ve already ordered my seeds. I’m so so so sooooo excited thank you so much for this video!!
Brianna Young how are your grounds and luffas growing, just found your comment! Hope they're doing well. 😊🌿🌺
Brianna Young Did you grow them? How did they turn out?
That is so amazing to grow gourds! And I just learned lots of craft made from gourds!
I absolutely love the tunnel used for these gourds! I'm planning on using this methods for ALL my vining stuff.
The tunnel she made made me want to grow grapes. Lol
@@rebeccahherdener2068 I was thinking passion fruit, melons, grapes, all the vining stuff. Even the squashes and pumpkins.
I watched this video over a year ago. I planted my bird house gourds this year. I did an arch as well over my herds , the sun is so hot. My plants are all so happy. Thanks for the great idea. Can’t wait to harvest my gourds
It's great to see someone get so much joy from growing thing like this. I grew birdhouse and snake gourds one year. My daughters helped and we made birdhouses and painted the snake ones to look like snakes. Gave them away as gifts to family and friends. It was a lot of fun. I think they would sell fairly easy at a farmers market or a craft fair.
How exciting! My grandfather used grow these. He used them for water containers. 😃👍
They are good you did a good job
You know what is the best thing of the video is your beautiful smile from Palestine we tell you keep on girl love your smile
That surprise is a Spung Gourd, they are really tasty.
If you leave a couple to dry out, you can have new seed for the next time.
You're making me want to plant gourds next year. That's so cool!
Go for it! It's been super fun!
hope all's well out there and you all are getting ready for Spring!! may God Bless!!
I love your excitement! What an awesome harvest!
I watched one video in my recommended & had to subscribe immediately lol almost an hour in & i'm totally hooked on this channel now!
I grew the Loffah for the first time this year... SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I haven't been lucky with Bird gourds yet, but this video has encouraged me to try! Great Video!!! :P
OMG, you are so cute! I'm super excited for you guys!
Who me? Lol! Thanks, Michele!
Love all the gourds. Too cool. Wear a mask when cleaning and drilling these gourds. I learned the hard way. You don't want to breathe those spores in your lungs. Really Awesome harvest. Blessings!
Deborha Smith iiithe
Thanks for the tip! I've never heard that but will definitely make sure we wear masks.
Deborha Smith Good advice! Thanks!
Deborha Smith out of curiosity, what does it do?
wash goards with a solution if water and clorox . drill a small hole and rinse the gourd and ket dry befor doing any work on them. I grow gourds about every five years.
We also grow the luffa gourds. My wife intends on taking them and slicing them in slices and embedding them with homemade soap from goats milk and selling them as gift sets with different scents.
wudntme54 How did that turn out?
OMG!! Be still my heart! I have loved gourds since I was a little girl. Tried to grow some in Texas, but they didn’t do well. Yours were awesome!!!
That's is sooo fun. I just planted some loofah seeds inside. They are coming up nice. Getting ready to make them a trellis. I can't wait ! I hope they turn out as good as yours.
In Africa, they are used to make musical instruments. When dried and inside gutted out, it is wrapped in a loose beaded mesh and shaken to produce sound.
I love your channel I wish I lived somewhere where the weather was good enough to grow half the things you grow. So I love watching your channel and you guys cooking is awesome thank you for all your uploads
Well... No I know they won't cross pollinate! I loved this video! So great!
I grew these one year for our Farmers Market! Let them dry over the Winter. Then painted with acrylic followed by outdoor polyurethane. First drill a hole for the birds. And then a smaller hole for a piece of a dowel for the perch. Sold them all !! Also they will look ugly come Spring, wash them with a little bleach in water with a scrubber, oh yes leave the stem longer 3-4 inches.
Started a birdhouse gourd along with several other vining plants. All are doing well but the birdhouse gourd plant is 20 times bigger than all the others. Yes, they do grow.
My mother use to cultivate them during our childhood. Now a says we do not get the seeds. I wish I could get the seeds, my mother would be very pleased to have them.
I really like your channel because most of your videos bring memories from my country Will Salvador. For example, this birdhouses gourd were grown and cleaned in the inside and used as canteen. People used them to carry drinking water. So there was no need of water bottles
Oh my goodness gracious! That looks so pretty! They look like party lights ! How amazing & awesome ! Good on! Liked and subscribed 🧡🙏
I love how excited you are. I feel the same way you do. We grew birdhouse gourds this year and we have dozens of them. I talk about my garden a lot. :P
How many vines did you plant? I am germinating 4 seeds but I doubt I’ll want to grow all of them.
They make fabulous Purple Martin Colony houses.
It's so satisfying seeing you so happy. I even know you. You can draw dots and patterns of dots and use a machine for make the holes and put lights inside. Search for it in Pinterest, It's awesome.
They make excellent water canteens. You can also saw them in half and make very good recipients for just about anything…
Just found your channel this morning and I am hooked! Your enthusiasm is breath of fresh air and such a blessing. Thank you so much for sharing your journey and knowledge. ☺🌿
That is awesome..very very cool! A tunnel of love for gourds :) I'm impressed ~♡~
You have great voice to use to explain what's happening!
We love her videos. They make for a great drinking game. Every time she says "excited" you have to take a shot, a double if she is "super excited".
word of warning=if you decide to drill a hole and make birdhouses out of them-PLEASE be aware that hornets and wasp will make their homes in these and don,t do like me=I ran into one while on the tractor and wow!! these red hornets swarmed me!! I took off so fast they could not catch me--thank God!! sure learned my lesson and I never hung any again.
Good to know! I grew some in a small garden. Eek. That was NOT a good idea. Those guys need room.
@@Meanoldwoman2013 yeah I may have to add another trellis or 3 to my little garden after noticing significant growth increase from all the recent rain. Hahaha
What a wonderful video. I'm surprised I haven't seen this before. I've been following your channel for a few years now. I love it when I stumble on a nugget like this. All your videos are great, but this is one of those extra special ones. You deserve every penny you make from your homestead and TH-cam channel. The value you share with the world is awesome. God bless you and everything you do.
I love how excited Sarah is shes a real worker
I love how enthusiastic you are, it is such a joy to watch your video.
Kia Ora & Good Morning from Caribbean Drive, Unsworth Heights, North Shore, Auckland, New Zealand ...Another Great Video Bro.
Hey I've made many Martin houses out of these. One gourd will make all the seeds you'll want to plant for next year. It'll take a few months to dry drill you a two inch hole in it and all the contents will fall out. Next you clean them with acid there will be a lot of black spots on them so the acid will clean them off. Then you can by a good indoor out door latex paint preferably white because they will be cooler the Martin's love them!
What kind of acid?
After watching your loofa video I was very disappointed to not see you peel the gourd and reveal an articulately handcrafted bird house.
We cook them and we consider them as vegetable. We sauté it with pork, garlic, onions and chopped tomatoes. Peel them and slice them into tiny pieces and add to the sautéed ingredients. It’s very delicious.
They look like ENORMOUS grapes!!! Oh my goodness! How crazy is that! 💓💛💚💙💜
Wow! I always wanted to grow them. This is the coolest, what a huge harvest! Thanks for sharing!
You have a beautiful piece of land and building! The trellis is quite lovely gordon's growing everywhere! Plus you're special find which I cannot pronounce or spell but looks quite lovely too 👍🙏😍☝️🏡
Loofah. Lu fuh
About ur birdhouse fruit, u can scrapes the skin off than u dry them and they look better or brown color. I had seen my parents plants back in country and that was of what we did, did scrape the skin off that when it dry it is more sturdy than leave the skins on them.
My gosh...it was like magic inside your gourd tunnel! And what fun to find the loofahs, too!
Very nice garden plants pumpkin
As in as I saw those long gourds, I exclaimed, “loofa!” That’s so awesome.
I loved visiting your tunnel, it was so nice inside. Like a little hidden retreat.
Absolutely! Next year, we are going to extend the tunnel down the rest of the row. We haven't decided what type of gourds to grow, but we won't need birdhouse gourds for awhile. LOL! But, definitely loofahs again!
Luffa is on my bucket list of things to grow. I bought the seeds last winter but didn't have room to plant them. Maybe next year!
I had tears in my eye when you revealed the inside of the cow pen tunnel! A bit of a dramatic reaction from me, but it was overwhelming! It is the most beautiful thing! I can understand you being so excited :-)
I'm glad you felt the same way I did!
2:44 missed a perfect opportunity to say,
_”birdhouse gourds_ *GALORE!!”* 🤣 so awesome! Hope my harvest is as fruitful 🥰 I’m growing some decorative gourds for this October!
When she discovered the loofah gourd she lost it & I lost it too, lmao!
I would've been stoked to make my own loofah soap! Def growing next summer!!
Thank you for the harvesting tip!!
I'm in Columbus Ohio and left mine out till spring and think that was the best luck I have.Before I would pick in fall and lost a few more
You and your family looking great standing out there around those bird gourds it's looks so amazing , thanks for sharing
Those are the gourds we grow in Hawaii, and are used by the kumu hula for rhythm.
I loved this video, your excitement is so contagious! Me and my husband were laughing all the way through!
The trellis is a fantastic idea. I've grown birdhouse gourds a few times but never that way. I just let them grow on the ground (and all over our porch lol!) then left them to dry there through the winter. I don't bleach them... if you leave them natural, and get black mold on them, it leaves some beautiful patterns on the gourds when you clean them.
Keep up the good work! I'll be subscribing to your channel. :)
I write on them when they are young...like friends last names and give them away. The writing grows with the gourd..it's really cool.
Wow I remember these on my neighbor's farm. They had bird houses.
My wife and I have just this year discovered your videos and we are fans now. As for the gourds, my grandson from Cincinnati got 11 birdhouse gourd seeds from his school on Earth Day. I let him plant them at the bottom of a cattle panel in my garden here in Berea, Kentucky, halfway thinking they wouldn't even germinate. Well, not only did they germinate, they are ferociously growing and they are just now flowering. After watching your video, I am excited for him but a little bit concerned that they will not stop at the cattle panel but will begin crawling the hundred feet or so to our house and try to strangle me while I sleep! Just kidding. We love who you are and are happy that you share your experience and experiences. God Bless you!
Those are awesome!!!Love seeing all your peppers, what a great bunch of peppers. Thanks for the video
Love your enthusiasm and excitement!!
You can cut them in half and use each half as a scoop. You can use them to scoop your bulk beans! ^_^
I just planted my seeds for the 1st time ever so excited
I just planted 50 seeds. Fingers crossed I have as much luck as you 💚
Luffas in the birdhouse! Mercy! I've never had the room to grow these but I think I'm going to toss chance to the wind and give them a try. I don't see a lot of them around here and they would make a neat project for cold Winter nights. Blessings!!
This is just awesome! I just happened to see some birdhouse gourd seeds today and then your video caught my eye. Now I'm wishing I would've bought some!
How cool is that?
Thanks for sharing!
How cute these gourds are. They look like little people! Awesome!
Hi. Thanks for sharing. Your mystery finding looks like Loofa pots. You’re Birdhouse Gourds are gorgeous, and So cool! Wish you the Best!
With bottle gaurd are good in taste we make curries out of it they are very healthy n good for heart next time u grow don't waste them please make veggies in case u need any receipe from India I would love to share
I check out your site. You should put your reciepes there. Im thinking of growing some and seeing what you say has incouraged me even more. Normally I need three promtings to try something new. 1. This would be a a fun entry way. 2. Make a fariy garden for grand childern and add sweet peas... 3. Sale 4. Eat I'd love to play with my food 😉👏🤗💖
@@tryingtobarefruitinoldage9878 will sent u few links of recipes made from bottle gaurd ,hope u can understand by watching videos
@@sonug9391 thank you so much 💖 I wait patiently. 😄
Use them as pitchers! So cool!
Holy gourd. That is awesome and what a cool surprise on the loofah's
+McCrea Family Homestead It has been a very fun experience!
+McCrea Family Homestead It has been a very fun experience!
I'm so amazed at how they grow in all different shapes and sizes!
My husband uses them for Purple Martin houses, we have many many Martins! They are amazing birds ✝️❤
We had a birdhouse gourd for years that the same family of nuthatches kept coming back to. It was soooo fun to watch them.
You are so lucky. because you have too many gourds. i am so happy because you love a gardening.
8:39 They look so beautiful in the sun.
A martin is the best mosquito carnivore in the sky. Eats thousands of biters daily. They love gourd houses.
Learned something new today!💜💜
Awesome! Thanks for sharing!💜💜
Now I know ANOTHER thing I want to plant!!!😊
Looks like from another planet.