Removing squash and pumpkin blossoms

Should I remove squash and pumpkin blossoms in the fall to allow all the plants’ energy to go toward the development of the squash on the vines? more...

Plant Companions: Alyssium with Melons & Squash

To practice organic gardening try planting alyssium with squash and melons. more...

Curious crooknecks

Meet old-fashioned yellow crookneck, cousin of zucchini. Delicate and buttery-tasting, this summer squash grows prolifically from a May sowing. more...

The Great Pumpkin

Few things evoke the sense of a season as strongly as that first sight of a ripe orange pumpkin in October. more...