Willows Green Permaculture How to Make a Birdhouse Out of a Gourd Posted: May 20, 2025 | Last updated: May 20, 2025 guide will walk you through the entire process—from cleaning and prepping the ...

These days, less utilitarian uses for gourds include birdhouses, crafts and fall décor to pair with pumpkins and mums on your front porch in fall. Gourd is the common name for a group of vining ...

A separate genus and species, Lagenaria siceraria, produces calabash gourds used as birdhouses, dippers, and storage vessels, and a third, Luffa aegyptiaca, produces the familiar luffa sponges.

The hard-shelled gourd is all of those things, and so much more — and the largest producer of hard-shelled gourds is located ...