Originally posted 9/02/07 (first gourden attempt)

Here are a couple of my gourd plants. I think both are bilobal bottle gourds. One is just sprouting (L). The two in the other picture are climbing up Jill's sunflowers (R).










Below is a picture of a newly sprouting "Job's Tears" plant, which is an ornamental grass that yields gourd-like seeds often used to make rosaries. They are commonly refered to as nature's beads because they cure themselves and hollow themselves out (with a hole at either end). I'm raising the Job's Tears to bead my Shekeres with.