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 ...

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 ...

Gourds are one of the most interesting and easy vegetables to grow in your yard. They are one of the oldest-known crops to be cultivated and have been used since prehistoric times as water containers, ...

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 ...