Wandering around those “U-Pick” farms dotted across Long Island, it’s easy to get lost in a pumpkin patch as you feverishly try to decipher the difference between a gourd and a squash and which, if ...

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 ...

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: ...

Weird sells, especially at Halloween. White, terra-cotta and blue pumpkins have joined the big orange globes we carve into jack-o'-lanterns and display on the front porch. Wildly shaped and colored ...

Galeux D' Eysines: The commonly used name is likely a shortened version of Borde Galeux d'Eysines, which means "embroidered with scabs from Eysines," a small city in southern France. It's a great ...

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 ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Now trending in the gourd grower’s garden — cucuzza, a hit parade of vines, tendrils and edible squash. Cucuzza -- aka “gagootz” -- is an aggressive creeper that yields baseball ...

Gourds are for more than just decorating. Yes, it’s decorative gourd season and all that, but gourds don’t just have to be decorative. There’s a reason they first started popping up on fall tables — ...

My small apartment has been turned into a squash court. Every kitchen surface and then some is stacked with sheet trays of oven-roasted squash, filling the space inside these four walls with a toasty, ...