It was winter 2000 and to my surprise and joy I discovered there was an annual gourd show at the area's major flea market. It was February and I was already thinking of having a garden. The very ...

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 ...

I got an email a few years ago in early December as well as a question from a friend at the pool about saving gourd seeds. “Is it OK to eat squash that has mixed traits of different squash in the same ...

Before the first frost touches your garden with its icy fingers, harvest gourds and prepare them for their use as birdhouses, decorations, sponges, or whatever else is in store for this useful fruit.

If I plant gourds again (talk me out of it, won't you?), maybe I'll want to try something different from the dippers I've already grown. (They are definitely worth growing in a smallish garden — once.

This is the season when autumnal displays surround us. Decorative gourds seem to appear overnight, as if beamed down from an alien spacecraft: striped, speckled, warted, and winged. Bright bursts of ...

Question: There are many interesting gourds and squash in the markets right now. Can you suggest a project I can do with my kids? Master Gardener Teri Bickmore responds: This fall, add a little ...

We have arrived. It is the first weekend of October. This means that the Ohio Gourd Society is kicking up its heels and hosting a gourd show and festival. And we are fairly near since the three-day ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Sadly, Marcie Evans lost her potter's wheel and kiln to floodwaters caused by Hurricane Isabel two years ago. Happily, the gourds Evans grows at her 100-year-old home in Poquoson, ...

The birds have returned to my garden gourds and they’re interesting and fun to watch. Unlike most fans of birding, I really don’t care which species claims one of my garden gourds for its home. I save ...

Time for Tix to Calabash: One of fall’s sweetest events, Calabash: a Festival of Gourds, Art and the Garden, is coming up Sunday Oct. 6 from 1 to 5 p.m. in downtown Forestville’s Food For Thought AIDS ...