Calabash 'Giant Bottle' / 'Water Jug' / 'Large Bottle'

Sowing method: March - May indoors. Planting out: April in the greenhouse or late May outdoors. This white-flowering gourd loves a warm summer and therefore grows well in a greenhouse. However, due to its night-blooming flowers, ensure windows and doors are open! Outdoor cultivation usually succeeds well, but let the plants climb! When fully ripe, it can be stored for several months, and even indefinitely after drying.

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Sowing/planting time:

• March
• April
• May

Harvesting time:

• August
• September
• October

Soil type:

• All soil types

Cultivation location:

• Indoors
• Greenhouse
• Outdoors warm / sheltered

Position:

• Sun

• Flower colour: White
• Origin: Tropical Africa
• Average growth height: More than 200 cm
• Annual or perennial: Annual
• Attractive to insects: N/A
• Winter hardy: Not frost hardy
• Ease of cultivation: Moderate

• Latin: Lagenaria siceraria
• Dutch: Gourd
• Also known as: White gourd
• English: Bottle-Gourd, Creools: Poe, Hindoest.: Lauki

• All year round