Egg Gourds

In Praise of What Has No Useful Purpose

Its that time of year when the egg gourds are in all their full audacious glory , spilling out of the raised beds and vining up and over the garage roof. I don’t seed them anymore, they seed themselves from gourds that dropped last year. They make me laugh just look at them. They are kind of the stand up comics of the plant world. utterly impractical, just a pleasing oval shape that fits nicely in the palm of the hand.