Gourds!!!

So the fruits of last year's harvest continue to give as the garden is planted for the coming harvest. The gourds have been sitting since last fall through the winter and are ready to be cleaned up and used.

Here are a few that have been cleaned up. Some of them inside and out and a couple of them only on the outside while they wait for me to decide what they are going to become.

Two of these gourds have become purple martin houses, at least hopefully they will be pale enough to attract purple martins.

Only time will tell and yes, I realize they do not look like the traditional purple martin birdhouses. Call it an experiment if you will. At the very least if the purple martins don't like the houses, I am sure that some bird out there will... lol.