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 ...

The plant started out strong and invasively climbing on holder/rack under full sun or growing light and lots of water.

Across many rural areas in Africa, including parts of West Africa, communities use bottle gourds as water storage solutions ...

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 ...

Over the last three years, New Gloucester’s Aaron Letourneau has given over most of his garden to gourds. He loves their history: one of the world’s oldest cultivated plants, dating back 13,000 years, ...

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 ...

RECORD-SETTING GOURD. >> 90 DAYS, YOU’RE GROWING A PLANT. THE NEXT 90 DAYS UP UNTIL THE MIDDLE OF OCTOBER, YOUR GROWING THE FRUIT. JOSH: WE COULD NOT WAIT TO SEE THE LARGEST GOURD IN THE WORLD. WE ...

Spiny gourd is loaded with essential nutrients such as vitamins A and C, iron, and calcium. These nutrients are important ...

Ridgegourd, popularly called “torai” in India, is a light and flexible vegetable that contains a lot of health benefits. It boasts fiber, vitamins and antioxidants that aid digestion, skin health and ...

Coimbatore, has received a patent for a chemical formulation to control melon flies in cucurbits (plants in the gourd family) ...