Many vegetable gardeners look for new crops or new varieties of crops they have experience growing to add to their garden. And this is the time of year when gardeners start to think about how they ...

Snake gourds are very easy to grow. They are edible when young and reach great lengths when mature. When choosing a hard shell gourd to grow in our area, make sure to find one that will bloom under ...

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 ...

Growing your own gourds? Follow these tips: - Plant gourds where they will receive a full day’s sun. - Gourd vines are long. Some can reach several hundred feet. Train vines onto fences or trellises ...

Goetze: A low-growing plant found in the prairies of our Rolling Plains is easily overlooked until you approach it from ...

Over the last three years, New Gloucester’s Aaron Letourneau has given over most of his garden to gourds. He loves their history: one of the world’s oldest cultivated plants, dating back 13,000 years, ...

For at least one day colorful gourds have a prominent place at the table. They are associated with harvest. Maybe they spill from cornucopias at the Thanksgiving table or harvest dinner, or they hang ...

I picked up a packet of gourd seeds last spring with the thought that some of the little, colorful things would look great in my fall décor. I imagined tucking them into nooks near pumpkins, by straw ...