Sep. 28—Weighing in at 215 pounds, a bushel gourd grown by Keys High School student Tucker Friend recently beat the state record at the Oklahoma Giant Pumpkin Growers Weigh-off event. With a passion ...

Shaped like an oversized apple, these hard-shelled gourds (Lagenaria siceraria) grow six to eight inches tall and four to six inches across. In India, young fruit is added to curries. The skin is ...

Sophie gives tips on harvesting and drying gourds. There are lots of different types of ornamental gourds which all dry well, but to store, they must be fully ripe. Don’t harvest them until the vine ...

Mention gourds and you may get a chuckle from your friends. Perhaps all they can think of are small warty versions marketed each fall for seasonal decorations. Or maybe they remember time spent ...

Each fall, as grocery stores and garden centers pile up mountains of orange pumpkins, it’s easy to forget the diverse gourd family. Pumpkins might be the headliners, but they’re not the only stars in ...

(Author's note: When I started writing this column 26 years ago — oh, yes, before the turn of the century — it was only to be a few months in the summer. But seeing that gardening was becoming very ...

Gourds are just plain fun–fun to grow and fun to look at. Growing into forms that resemble basketballs, caveman’s clubs, spoons, penguins, bottles, bananas, swans and apples, the fruit of these ...

A Sharon man said he broke a Guinness World Record after his 30-year-long passion project of growing giant pumpkins paid off with a 470.5-pound bushel gourd. Steve Connolly started growing giants ...

Each year when fall comes around, flocks of people seek out a nearby farm to pick apples, pumpkins and the like. With Halloween and Thanksgiving just around the corner, it's that time of year when ...