" The author of the following text is Adela Szczęsna from Kutno, a reader of the magazine Przepis na Ogród. "
I would like to encourage all gardeners to grow gourds. Their huge fruits are extremely effective. I have already grown specimens both one meter and the size of a small bottle.Some are solid light green, others dark green with white patches.
I exchange seeds of different varieties with my neighbors from the plot. Young fruits are edible, but - for me - a bit too bland.I read that they also have little nutritional value.However, everyone has their own culinary taste.If we want to try the gourds, peel the young specimens and remove the large seeds. Cut them into cubes or slices and fry them as if they were treated.
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You can also eat boiled or roasted seeds. Fully ripe gourds have a bitter flesh and are inedible, even poisonous. Then they have a different advantage: after drying, they become wonderful decorations.You can simply hang them on trees or gazebo walls, or create some unusual object.Last fall I tried to create a gourd a birdhouse. She turned out pretty cool.
Drying fruit is not easy. Often times, the gourds just get moldy. I have a way - I fill their interior with hot s alt. I also remember to pick them up before the onset of frosts.
When it comes to cultivation, calabash likes sunny places.Requires fertile soil and fertilization. You can get it from seedlings, but I plant the seeds right into the ground. Before that, I soak them overnight, which speeds up sprouting. Good luck!
