Put down your pumpkin carving knife and grab a piece of pumpkin bread while you enjoy these fun gourd and pumpkin facts this fall! Winter squashes are usually defined as those harvested later in ...

The good news is that pumpkin experts have united over the years to trade secrets (and seeds), bringing us colorful gourds that brighten up the fall season just as much as the changing leaves.

Cucurbit crops, including gourds, pumpkin, squashes and melons are especially susceptible to disease, but better breeding technology may make these plants more disease-resistant. Image may only be ...

pumpkin sitting in a temperature-controlled glass pavilion at a fair 35 miles north of Boston in early October. It’s a beast of a gourd: it looks wider around than an ox and tall as a Great Dane ...

When we think of pumpkins, we typically think of the big, ripe, orange kind. But green, unripe pumpkins have a tasty secret ...

They usually have a thicker skin—think pumpkins, spaghetti squash and butternut squash—that can be removed with a sharp vegetable peeler or a chef's knife. Gourds generally have a skin similar ...

Lauren Olsen, a sustainability expert with World Centric, told Insider that an estimated 2 billion pounds of pumpkins are grown in the US every year, and most of them are thrown out. This can ...

An estimated 18,000 tonnes of pumpkin ends up in landfill each year ... Some 18,000 tonnes of discarded gourds end up in landfill each year, according to to waste management company Waste Managed ...

Becky Butler has spent weeks frantically reordering stock after it was destroyed in a fire A pumpkin-picking farm has opened in time for Halloween, despite a catastrophic fire that destroyed most ...