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 ...

FALLBROOK, Calif. — Welburn Gourd Farm was originally homesteaded in the 1880s and today is the largest gourd farm in production in the country, according to the new owner, Jaime Weber. “The Welburn ...

BLOOMING VALLEY — Blooming Valley’s Quinn Werner isn’t your garden variety retiree. Putting his green thumb to the test, Werner spent the past year growing gourds, marrow, tomatoes, squash and giant ...

Ornamental gourds (Curcurbitaceae pepo), with their comparatively colorful and soft exteriors, may be painted as well, but they eventually rot. While they're on the vine, some gourds can be knotted; ...

COVINGTON, Va. (WDBJ) - Weighing in at 1,507 pounds, Steven Hall placed second at the Virginia State Fair for his giant pumpkin and won the governor’s pick, now on display at the governor’s mansion in ...

In the beginning was the gourd, and the gourd was good. The histories of gourds and humans intertwine across thousands of years and eight world regions. People loved the hard-shelled gourd before they ...