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 ...

In this video, I show you how to build a gourd tunnel trellis to grow gourds, luffas, and other climbing vegetables. Self Sufficient Me is based on our small 3-acre property/homestead in se Queensland ...

(WGHP) — We grow some of our own vegetables. We grow flowers. But there’s something else you can grow to use in the bathtub. Loofah gourds can be peeled, dried, and then used to exfoliate dead skin.

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 ...

Mahoning County Master Gardener John Schoeni shows how he secures a long gourd to a board when it's ready to harvest. Drying takes several months. (Submitted photo / John Schoeni) For the previous 20 ...

Loofahs are great for exfoliating the skin, and though one of them is my regular shower companion, I had no idea what they are. I assumed the coarse tubes were either natural sponges from the sea, or ...

The histories of gourds and humans intertwine across thousands of years and eight world regions. People loved the hard-shelled gourd before they knew how to grow it, and today you don’t have to ...

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 ...