I picked up a packet of gourd seeds last spring with the thought that some of the little, colorful things would look great in my fall décor. I imagined tucking them into nooks near pumpkins, by straw ...
Some of us in the higher elevations of the Catskills had frost this past week and the rest of you in the valley should be getting prepared for your turn! In general, the closer you are to the Hudson ...
Grocery stores pile mountains of pumpkins in the fall, but warty, twisted and striped gourds can also turn a front porch ...
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 ...
The rush of the first holiday of the season is over. Halloween is gone and all of the candy is, too. The pumpkins and jack-o’-lanterns are now part of the compost pile. However, with Thanksgiving a ...
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 ...
Well, we finally got some much needed rain recently. The hot, dry summer of 2010 has produced some very early and also very tasty fruits and vegetables. Contrast this to last summer when it rained ...
Some of us in the higher elevations of the Catskills had frost this past week and the rest of you in the valley should be getting prepared for your turn! In general, the closer you are to the Hudson ...