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 ...

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.

Pumpkins are easy to love. Whether carved into scary faces, baked into spicy holiday pies or adding brilliant shades of orange to fall decor, they’re probably autumn’s favorite fruit. But, there is ...

Some of us in the higher elevations of the Catskills had frost this past week and the rest of you in the valley should be getting prepared for your turn! In general, the closer you are to the Hudson ...

Ornamental gourds are the colorful stars of autumn. With their extraordinary shapes and vibrant colors, they create a fall atmosphere in the garden, on the balcony, or as table decorations. myHOMEBOOK ...

Mahoning County Master Gardener John Schoeni shows how he secures a long gourd to a board when it's ready to harvest. Drying takes several months. (Submitted photo / John Schoeni) For the previous 20 ...

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 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 ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Q • I grew some ornamental gourds this year and would like to preserve them. Can you tell me how this is done? A • Ornamental ...

The idea that a garden can be both ornamental and edible has gained tremendous popularity since the turn of this century, partly because of economics, but also because of the satisfaction of growing ...

WASHINGTON - Most people think of gourds as fall decoration or food, but several craftspeople see them as art. "I put some pretty spectacular colors on the gourds themselves, and then I do a little ...