These Malabar Gourds are alarmingly heavy! The vines survive and even thrive through winter and are used as rootstock for greenhouse cucumbers because they’re indestructible; I’ve eaten them when they’re young and they were delicious as were the shoots - these monsters will end up in student cooking prac where we may take to them with an axe as recommended by @erictoensmeier in Perennial Vegetables! #curcubitaficifolia #malabargourd #perennialvegetables #novelcrops #panc #burnleyhorticulturalcollege #heavylifting #bigveggies

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