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 ...

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.

Sitting at the kitchen table this early morning, I see before me nature’s infinite variety in the form of a shallow blue-gray bowl filled with five small gourds. Two of them are entirely the color of ...

This is the season when autumnal displays surround us. Decorative gourds seem to appear overnight, as if beamed down from an alien spacecraft: striped, speckled, warted, and winged. Bright bursts of ...

One year ago this month my journey to the Delaware County Fairgrounds and the annual Ohio Gourd Show and Festival brought me face to face with temptation. From all the years when the festival was held ...

They can be two pounds or 200, small and spherical or misshapen and oblong, and exhibit a range of colors, coats and patterns. No, we’re not talking about dogs, but gourds — another genetically ...