10 Bottle Gourd Birdhouse Craft Calabash Asian Buddha Squash Vegetable Seeds

• You will get 10 Seeds of Bottle Gourd Birdhouse Craft Calabash Asian Buddha Squash Vegetable Seeds.
• Birdhouse gourd can either be harvested young to be consumed as a vegetable,or mainly grown for crafts or decoration. These hourglass shaped gourds reach 10-12inch at the bulb end and are perfect for making birdhouses! Tan shell becomes hard and glossy. when ready for harvest in about 120 days.
• Sow.
• Outdoor:Soak the seeds in water overnight to give them a leg-up on germination. Plant the seeds in situ (in their permanent spot) as soon as the last frost date has passed in your area. Plant 5 seeds per composted hill about 5-in apart. When seedlings begin to take off, you'll want to thin them to one seedling per hill ideally.
• Indoors: You can start the seeds indoors by a few weeks (soak them first) before the last frost date, but plant them in peat pots so you can plant them directly into their permanent beds without disturbing their sensitive roots. Then go ahead and plant them outdoors after the last frost date.
• Grow.
• Birdhouse gourds can be grown on the small “hills” that is the traditional way of growing squash or gourds. However, because they are a long-season crop, they end up sitting on the ground for long periods and could become rotten on the side touching the ground. One way to avoid this problem is to use 3 inches or so of mulch around the vines and under the fruit, however, it's just as easy to grow them up trellis's, fences or cages instead.
• Harvest.
• The gourds will tolerate a light frost, so let them ripen on the vine as long as possible. But soon after that, you'll need to harvest them and bring them indoors for several months to cure the rest of the way. The gourds will be ready to harvest when the stems turn brown, but as I said, if Jack Frost has brought more than two suitcases, he's there to stay so go ahead and bring the gourds inside.