What not to do? Hello, good morning. This is Goko Mama, Eva from Highland Homestead. And I want you guys to check this out. What not to do? My gourd's here. See this? One thing I've learned from gourds and the birdhouse gourds specifically is that you have to put them in some sort of bleach water before you dry them. These were all moldy. I tried to clean them up, see the crack after they dried. They're so brittle that I didn't know that that's what you were supposed to do. To not have it so brittle. And then this here is the actual inside of this birdhouse gourd. And I'll show that to you in just a second. But my thought here is if anybody knows, do you think these seeds are going to be viable? I have the seeds right here. I'm going to show them to you. What do you guys think? Are these seeds going to be viable? Even though it was moldy and yucky on the inside and dried, I would like to hear your thoughts leave a comment below. Now here's the other one. I have not taken the seeds out of this one. And as you can see, I'm going to try to get this. These seeds out. Okay, here's what they look like. And there's a little bit of mold growing. I'm going to clean this all up. So in these chunks are all the seeds. I'm going to see if I can break them apart for you. Let's see how the seeds there. But they're moldy. So my first thought would be, okay, let's check this out on YouTube. Right? And see what I'm doing wrong. Because I didn't do that before. I just dried them and thought that they would dry. And then I would clean them up. And show them to you. This is what happened. So if there's any suggestions that you guys have, I would really appreciate it. We are going to try to see if these seeds are actually viable this year. And go from there. I do have more bird seed, gourd seeds. But what do you guys think? Now, there's still more seeds in there. What we're going to do is, I think they're still okay. We're going to take because they were so soft and brittle. I just punched a hole in here to see what it looked like inside. It was so soft that I pushed a hole through here. You know, the other one is a little holy. But what my husband said next time is he'll take one of his drills with a bit on the end. Drill a couple holes so that we can get a nice hole in here. I'll file these down and we'll paint them and we'll put them out. They're still good. But I just wanted you guys to see my mistake that I did. So, here's to you, everyone. Leave a comment. What do you guys think? From our house to yours. This is Go Go Mama, Eva. You all have a great day out there. Toodles.