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 ...

Time lapse video of growing calabash bottle gourd plant from seed to harvest. The seed was germinated and planted in a ...

Pumpkins and gourds can take anywhere from 90-120 days to mature (with the larger varieties taking longer), so in order to have them ready in time for Halloween or Thanksgiving, you will want to start ...

Selecting an appropriate support structure is key to successful vertical bottle gourd gardening. Options include trellises, ...

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 ...

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 ...