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

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 ...

CASA GRANDE, Ariz. – The annual Running of the Gourds Festival, an event that celebrates the fruit's growing popularity, has taken over Pinal County this weekend. The Pinal Fairgrounds & Event Center ...

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 ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The bottle gourd has been grown and eaten from the Americas to Asia to ...

Ornamental gourds (Curcurbitaceae pepo), with their comparatively colorful and soft exteriors, may be painted as well, but they eventually rot. While they're on the vine, some gourds can be knotted; ...

There is no system for deciding what I will write about each week. Ideas for columns occur to me out of the wild green sometimes, and at other times, I am racking my brain for what to tell my editors ...

As you spend hours in the coming weeks carving pumpkins and preparing pumpkin pies, you may start to wonder: What exactly is a pumpkin? Is it a vegetable? But it has seeds, so is pumpkin a fruit? And ...

Ash gourd plant scientifically known as Benincasa Hispida which belongs to the Cucurbitaceae family. A melon-like fruit mostly used for medical and functional purposes. But have you ever wondered why ...

My mother who is a borderline diabetic recently discovered the anti-diabetic virtues of the bitter gourd from a neighbour. Ever since she had been drinking a full glass of karela juice first thing in ...