You love enjoying fresh-from-the-garden squash and incorporating vegetables into your meals. While these plants are popular choices for gardeners of all skill levels, many who are just developing ...

Summer squash (Cucurbita pepo), including zucchini, crookneck, straightneck, and patty pan, is common in central New York vegetable gardens. Summer squash grows quickly, is early to harvest, and is ...

As summer winds down, many of us are trying to figure out how to use up all the summer squash in our garden. Summer squashes have a much shorter shelf life than hard-shell winter squashes. Although ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Squash comes in many varieties, including zucchini, butternut squash, and summer squash, among others. If you're just getting started with ...

HUNGRY FRUIT: Squash are heavy feeders, meaning they thrive in soil with high fertility. If you don’t have rich soil, you can add an organic fertility source before planting squash, and/or apply a ...

There is a lot of choice when it comes to growing squash. That includes picking from the many varieties, with different shapes, sizes, and colors, deciding whether to grow in the ground or containers, ...

When the tiny squash fruits at the base of squash blossoms don't get pollinated, the young squash will stop developing, shrivel and eventually dry or drop from the plant. Squash fruits begin as ...

I’ve been passionate about winter squash for decades. Years ago, friends started calling me the “squash man.” I was constantly trying out new recipes for my favorite varieties: Butternut, Buttercup, ...

Jim Guthrie holds a Zucchetta Rampicante Tromboncino Squash in his garden. The plant, a relative to zucchini and yellow squash, has a similar flavor to its cousins but aren’t as attractive to squash ...

Q. We grow cucumbers and butterbeans on trellises to conserve space in our garden. We wonder if you know of compact varieties of yellow squash and zucchini squash that grow like a bush and require ...