It is easy to grow Lauki (Bottle Gourd) in a balcony garden, a wonderful method to have fresh, homegrown veggies even with only a small space. All you need is the proper pot, soil, sunlight, and care, ...

Scientifically bottle gourd is known as Lagenaria siceraria belonging to the cucumber family. This creeping plant is also known as calabash. This non-food plant is grown in Uganda mainly for cultural ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The bottle gourd has been grown and eaten from the Americas to Asia to ...

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 ...

Every year, the Art in the Park show in Julia Davis Park has some vendors selling large gourds, beautifully decorated as if they were clay pots. Some of us try to grow our own gourds, but find the ...

This summer, make room in the garden for some fun: Plant a few gourd seeds and see what develops. Gourds shaped like apples, snakes, swans, penguins and ducks, as big as basketballs or as curvy as an ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! As I write today’s column were are experiencing a beautiful autumn day here in the Valley. We had a few rainy days but we could definitely needed the ...