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

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.

Each fall, as grocery stores and garden centers pile up mountains of orange pumpkins, it’s easy to forget the diverse gourd family. Pumpkins might be the headliners, but they’re not the only stars in ...

Pumpkins are easy to love. Whether carved into scary faces, baked into spicy holiday pies or adding brilliant shades of orange to fall decor, they’re probably autumn’s favorite fruit. But, there is ...

Mahoning County Master Gardener John Schoeni shows how he secures a long gourd to a board when it's ready to harvest. Drying takes several months. (Submitted photo / John Schoeni) For the previous 20 ...

Sophie gives tips on harvesting and drying gourds. There are lots of different types of ornamental gourds which all dry well, but to store, they must be fully ripe. Don’t harvest them until the vine ...

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 ...

Nubbly, bubbly, and slightly homely, some gourds aren’t good to eat but make perfect seasonal decorations for autumn celebrations. It would be entirely possible and fun to set a fall table with all ...

Each fall, as grocery stores and garden centers pile up mountains of orange pumpkins, it’s easy to forget the diverse gourd family. Pumpkins might be the headliners, but they’re not the only stars in ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Q • I grew some ornamental gourds this year and would like to preserve them. Can you tell me how this is done? A • Ornamental ...