You know what I’m talking about — the strange, bumpy things you see every fall. They’re piled high at all the stores, squatting on front porches, or sitting in a bowl your friend insists is “autumnal.

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 ...

“What makes a gourd desirable?”my husband asked, calling from a farmer’s roadside stand where I’d sent him in a panic to find pumpkins and gourds for my fall open house. Everyone has her own answer to ...

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, ...

Before the first frost touches your garden with its icy fingers, harvest gourds and prepare them for their use as birdhouses, decorations, sponges, or whatever else is in store for this useful fruit.

When ripe and fully coloured, sometime in September or even October, harvest with an 8 to 10 cm piece of stalk attached and ...

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.

'Tis season for decorating with funky-shaped squashes and oddly patterned gourds. But unlike pumpkins, which can easily be turned into pie (or lattes), are these gourds straight off the pumpkin patch ...

In an annual rite of autumn, anyone can carve a pumpkin. But gourds? That requires patience and a passion that goes far beyond Halloween. Ask any serious “gourder.” This curious vine has wrapped ...