Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many vegetable gardeners look for new crops or new varieties of crops they have experience growing to add to their garden. And ...

This summer, make room in the garden for some fun: Plant a few gourd seeds and see what develops. Gourds shaped like apples, snakes, swans, penguins and ducks, as big as basketballs or as curvy as an ...

Hard-shell gourds lend themselves both to utility and decoration. Ancient cultures only needed to harvest and dry the fruits from this prehistoric plant to have cooking kettles, storage containers, ...

While big chain stores and online retailers continue to dominate the market when it comes to holiday gifts, more and more Americans have shown increased demand for locally grown and handmade goods in ...

The basic types of gourds are the cucurbita, or ornamental gourds; the lagenaria, or large utilitarian gourds; and the luffa, or vegetable-sponge gourds. Despite the invention of plastic, these ...

Scientifically bottle gourd is known as Lagenaria siceraria belonging to the cucumber family. This creeping plant is also known as calabash. This non-food plant is grown in Uganda mainly for cultural ...

To grow gorgeous, utilitarian hard-shell gourds, you've got to start now. Here's how: • Start seeds mid-March to April. Before planting, nick seed with a knife on the bumps on the flat end. Rub the ...

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 ...