We’ve got some fruit, after a very hot and periodically dry summer. The Cannonball and Snake gourds have been productive, but the Loofah and Birdhouse plantings have failed to fruit. Plenty of flowers and bees, so I’m still trying sort out why. One guess is that we need a good bit more space between the “productive” plants and the “sterile” plants. Unproductive plant pollination could have occurred.
If you are a gourd guru, and can guess, please leave a comment or email me at: timothy dot nohe at gmail dot com.
One happy surprise… the school chickens have been cooling in the shade of the ground creeping Cannonball gourds. I’ll try to get a shot so that you can see the chooks shading themselves when we have a broiler of a day in the city.
