Do you Grow Gourds?

When we had our homestead, one of the seed catalogs had Birdhouse Gourd seeds and Luffa Sponge seeds.

These seeds sounded fun so  I grew luffas and birdhouse gourds on a barbed wire fence in full sun.  Both plants did well.

After these dried, our daughter had fun painting the birdhouse gourds.  She gave both the birdhouses and the luffa sponges as gifts to her friends.

What kind of gourds have you grown and how did you use the gourds?

I grow pepo gourds and lagenaria birdhouse gourds.

I use the birdhouse gourds as rattles, and sell them to an artist that makes musical instruments like thunderdrums.

I eat the birdhouse gourds as summer squash.