Gourds are members of the squash family and are generally grown for fun, not food. This mixture will produce a crop of small, mixed gourds in several shapes and sizes.

Seed Depth: 1 in.
Row Spacing: 60 in.
Seed Spacing: 12 in.

Plant Spacing: 24 in.
Days to Sprout: 7-14
Days to Harvest: 85-100

Choose a warm and sunny location, preferably south facing. Gourds need plenty of summer heat to ripen. Seeds may be started indoors and transplanted into the garden.

Give plants a wire or trellis support to keep ripening fruits off the ground.

Gourds should be left to ripen on the vine as long as possible. Mature fruit will have a hard, glossy shell and tough, dry stems. After harvesting cure in a warm dry location. When dry preserve with a coating of wax, lacquer or shellac.

Cut gourds with some stem so that they can be easily hung to dry.