A great way to decorate an office or a kitchen is to create wonderful aesthetic image and to have a theme, which reflects one self. Now, it's no question that vegetables can look a little bit odd sometimes, they have the tendency to surprise the farmers that planted them.
There are world record-holding vegetables all around the globe. It's a fact that some people spend all their lives to create such wonderful oddities in the natural world.
One of those people is Virginia farmer, Charles Martin, who in the past was just a small time farmer but recently his farm has grown a bigger.
His expertise, squash and gourds.
Squash are the same family as pumpkins, and Martin's squash are an odd bunch. They could be the best decorative pieces not only for Halloween but for your office and kitchen as well. Actually, you can put the squash anywhere, they are not suitable for consumption, but they are a conversation starter.
According to Martin, most of gourds (squash family) he gathers are not used as an ingredient but as decorative.
"Everyone wants to have the new, really cool gourd that everyone wants to buy, that Martha Stewart posts on her blog," Adam Pyle, a horticulturalist at the United States Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C, said. The trend has been popular for many years now, and the interest that people show with oddly shaped squash's and gourds are very high, he added.
The gourds don't grown naturally, farmers create them. Many are experimental, a crossbreed between one gourd and another gourd. But they do look fantastic and fun.
Demands for gourds that are weirder and more different are well spoken by many gourd farmers. According to them, the stranger the gourd is the better. People are flocking many markets, which specifically sell gourds to buy the strangest of the lot.
