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 ...

Fall is decorative squash season. It is also decorative gourd season. Those two sentences are not redundant. While most of us lump gourds, squash, and pumpkins into one lumpy, bumpy, hard-to-peel ...

Q. What is the difference between squash, pumpkins, and gourds? Are some gourds edible? Squash (both winter and summer types), pumpkins, and gourds are members of the cucurbit family (as are cucumbers ...

The Forget-Me-Not garden club held meetings in September and October when discussions of landscaping and Christmas were held. Eight members were present in September when landscaper Marsha Wilson ...

John and Jenny Thull are the husband and wife team behind an amazing pumpkin, squash and gourd patch at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. Together they grow more than 300 varieties each year that ...

Have you seen the rather large watermelon-shaped yellow squash at the farmers’ market or in the produce section of the supermarket and wondered what that is? This large winter squash is called a ...