Squash plants are not only prolific producers, but many types, both summer squash and winter squash, also get quite large. Their sprawling vines overwhelm smaller vegetables and other nearby plants.

You love enjoying fresh-from-the-garden squash and incorporating vegetables into your meals. While these plants are popular choices for gardeners of all skill levels, many who are just developing ...

Squash is a good source of dietary fibre, and takes up little garden space when grown on a trellis or obelisk I experimented this year with growing several different types of squash and small pumpkins ...

Winter squash are named for their keeping qualities — an important trait when the root cellar was your supermarket — but they are already a month or more off the vine as they wait out fall’s shift to ...

Those pumpkins, cucumbers, musk melons and squash taste good, and you can’t imagine a garden without them. But they’re soil bullies. Stick them in a garden and they take over like testosterone-fueled ...

Gardening can be a lot of work, but there are different growing techniques that gardeners can use to help save some work and their back! One of those techniques is using a trellis to grow vining crops ...

The tromboncino squash in Nancy Howell’s garden plot doesn’t resemble the trombone for which it’s named but, rather, a french horn. “This is what happens when you stay away for one day,” she says, ...

I am constantly searching for more space to garden. So when I ran out of ground, I went vertical—and the way it fundamentally changed the way people experience my garden is remarkable. Consider this a ...