Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shaped like an oversized apple, these hard-shelled gourds (Lagenaria siceraria) grow six to eight inches tall and four to six ...

They can be two pounds or 200, small and spherical or misshapen and oblong, and exhibit a range of colors, coats and patterns. No, we’re not talking about dogs, but gourds — another genetically ...

Imagine you open up a CSA box—a kit of produce from community supported agriculture—only to find an apple covered in ashen warts. You’d probably be inclined to kill it with fire, or at least condemn ...

Gourds are just plain fun–fun to grow and fun to look at. Growing into forms that resemble basketballs, caveman’s clubs, spoons, penguins, bottles, bananas, swans and apples, the fruit of these ...

Growing your own gourds? Follow these tips: - Plant gourds where they will receive a full day’s sun. - Gourd vines are long. Some can reach several hundred feet. Train vines onto fences or trellises ...

Olena, one of the some 100 members of the Pennsylvania Gourd Society, will celebrate the gourd-eous ornamental plant Friday and Saturday, during the society's fourth annual Pennsylvania Gourd Fest. At ...