When do I harvest my birdhouse gourds and how do I do it? Harvest them when they are full-size, the skin is hardened, and the stem attached to the fruit turns brown. These thick-skinned gourds can ...

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 ...

Grocery stores pile mountains of pumpkins in the fall, but warty, twisted and striped gourds can also turn a front porch ...

Some of us in the higher elevations of the Catskills had frost this past week and the rest of you in the valley should be getting prepared for your turn! In general, the closer you are to the Hudson ...

Q–Can you tell me the correct way to dry gourds? –West Newton, Pa. A–Gourds are plentiful in the autumn–you’ll find them at farm stands, garden centers and grocery stores. Soft-shelled gourds, such as ...

Here we are, the last of October, and the garden is winding down fast, at least around the Sutter farm. Seems like last week I was picking tomatoes, and this week, I am pulling the plants. It looks ...

“Repurpose, recycle, reuse” is the mantra for today’s decor. You’ll get double the value if you decorate for autumn with organic elements that can later be repurposed, All over America it’s the season ...

Lena gave Dickie some seeds and some advice, and he sowed his first crop. Ghost Creek Gourds was born. “We took off and grew some gourds, and then we went to the Florida Gourd Show that very year to ...

Well, we finally got some much needed rain recently. The hot, dry summer of 2010 has produced some very early and also very tasty fruits and vegetables. Contrast this to last summer when it rained ...