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A Mischievious Foul, Jeju. Pic: Aaron IrvingPumpkins and a Thatched Roof?
The Gourds and Pumpkins grow very nicely on the roof, especially since both plants are water loving, and Jeju in the summer has the 'Chang Ma' or the summer monsoon. So it rains like %&$#!
These vegetables would grow huge, and in Traditional Korea these veggies were well utilised. The weight of the pumpkins and gourds would help hold down the thatch during the fierce summer rains, they would also serve as an ingredient in soups. Also they are used in Kimch'i, very spicey pickled vegetables, and eaten in the winter.
In the picture you can see that the gourd has had its flesh harvested, and is still kept intact. These dried vegetables, make naural bottles. Even entire pumpkins were dried and were used as serving dishes. In teh picture above you can see that the gourds have a elongated appendage that sticks up from the bulbous base. These gourds were dried and used as ladels....
How cool huh.
Look at the picture to the left, you can also see crudely woven rope, to which stones would have been tied as an addition roof support.
