Ornamental gourds are the colorful stars of autumn. With their extraordinary shapes and vibrant colors, they create a fall ...

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 ...

It has been years since my last visit to the Ohio Gourd Society show in Mt. Gilead. It always became a serendipitous trip seeing friends from other cities, some from Bucyrus, art in many categories, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The Filbert Street Garden is home to animals like geese, ducks, chickens and turkeys, about two-thirds of which are rescues.

It’s that time of year when visions of Halloween conjure up all kinds of ghoulish-looking gourds! While they are traditional decor at Halloween and Thanksgiving, gourds aren’t just for decoration.

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, ...