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

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 ...

Gourds are members of the Cucubitaceae family, which also includes the pumpkin. There are three main types: hard-shelled, ornamental and luffa. Hard-shelled gourds known as Lagenaria are the variety ...

It’s difficult to be bored with gourds. They come in myriad sizes and shapes, weighing between a few ounces to several pounds. As autumn officially gets under way, you’ll be hard pressed to pass an ...

SHARON – Steve Connolly, Sharon’s renowned large pumpkin grower took first place honors for growing a different type of vegetable last weekend. Connolly’s 245-lb bushel gourd was declared the winner ...

At this year’s State Fair of Virginia, it wasn’t just giant pumpkin and watermelons varieties that won accolades. Blue ribbons were awarded for an extra-large bushel gourd, a hefty long gourd, a giant ...

Oct. 21 (UPI) --A Massachusetts man said a prize item from his garden could be headed for the Guinness Book of World Records after he grew a 470.5-pound bushel gourd. Steve Connolly, who has been ...

Most gourds are unpalatable. They have virtually no use beyond being novel. They can be frustrating to grow and cure, and the vines take up a lot of garden space, not to mention water. Why bother? "It ...

A Sharon man said he broke a Guinness World Record after his 30-year-long passion project of growing giant pumpkins paid off with a 470.5-pound bushel gourd. Steve Connolly started growing giants ...

Each year when fall comes around, flocks of people seek out a nearby farm to pick apples, pumpkins and the like. With Halloween and Thanksgiving just around the corner, it's that time of year when ...