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

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 ...

Today, the district’s gourd cultivation covers over 4,900 acres, involving more than 5,000 farming households. It commands 75 per cent of the domestic market, generating annual gross revenues of 2.6 ...

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; ...

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 ...

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 ...