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 ...

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 ...

Fall is here, and that means harvest time. The cornucopia of fall brings a heaping bounty of squash, pumpkins and gourds. At the N.C. Cooperative Extension Office, we get this question all the time: ...

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 ...

One of the best parts of autumn is the abundance of pumpkins, squash and gourds in all the gorgeous fall colors and in various shapes and sizes. Whether at a farm or a farmers market or the grocery ...

Are you here to see if you can get some answers about what is yellow squash? You’re in the right place! At first glance, you might think that it’s yellow zucchini, but it’s actually a different ...