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 ...

We’ve all picked up those farmer’s market fresh veggies only to get home and discover days later that we have waited too long, turning our gourd-eous fall squash into squish before we even got a ...

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 ...

In a large sauce pot sweat the onion, garlic, thyme, bay leaf, salt, and pepper, and sweat them until they are translucent. Add the squash and pine nuts and allow the cut squash to cook, and a pinch ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Forget-Me-Not garden club held meetings in September and October when discussions of landscaping and Christmas were held.