[Sca-cooks] bottle gourds (european squashes)

[Terry Decker]

If it is an actual bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria), it should be edible. 
You'll usually find them marketed as bottle, white-flowered, calabash, 
dipper, or basket gourds.

Bear


> I remember somebody on this list growing bottle gourds for eating. I
> want to grow a few plants this year.
> Does anybody know where I can find wich varieties are edible? I've
> found a distributor of various pumpkin&bottle gourd seeds, but he
> markets his bottle gourds as decorative and doesn't say anything about
> edibility.
>
> thx
> Finne