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 just plain fun–fun to grow and fun to look at. Growing into forms that resemble basketballs, caveman’s clubs, spoons, penguins, bottles, bananas, swans and apples, the fruit of these ...

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 ...

SPRINGFIELD - There is something funny growing in Effingham County - the oddly shaped and multi-purpose gourd. Local farmer Barry Zettler, 63, started planting gourds about four years ago at his ...

The snake gourd can grow up to 6 feet long and is called that because if grown on the ground it will sometimes curl.” She grows bushel-basket gourds, canteen gourds, egg gourds and Tennessee spinner ...

The miracle of DNA has finally solved the age-old question: How did bottle gourds come to America? This plant has no wild progenitors in the Western Hemisphere. The gourd grown by early cultures in ...

Most gourds are unpalatable. They have virtually no use beyond being novel. They can be frustrating to grow and cure, and the vines take up a lot of garden space, not to mention water. Why bother? "It ...

Every year, the Art in the Park show in Julia Davis Park has some vendors selling large gourds, beautifully decorated as if they were clay pots. Some of us try to grow our own gourds, but find the ...

When a coworker brought in a bushel basket filled with gourds, the Features Department thought it would be fun to name the gourds with punny titles. See if you can guess the correct names.

"There are a few things you need to know to grow gourds,” said Robert Tuttle as we stood overlooking his garden. “Start early, use the right seeds, water consistently and fertilize correctly. That’s ...

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 ...

One of the joys of being a Master Gardener is working with a team to produce an educational event for home gardeners. To that end, Master Gardeners are growing gourds, pumpkins and Indian corn for our ...