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It’s a small gourd, after all: Fall’s zany array of mini-ornamentals

October 21st, 2009

By Melissa Segrest
Green Right Now

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If you’ve cruised the produce section at the grocery lately, you probably stopped to eye the small, colorful, oddball gourds near the pumpkins and winter squash.