Question: My family enjoys growing a vegetable garden each year, especially squash. With further water restrictions likely, are there any benefits to growing heirloom varieties? Answer: Absolutely! It ...

P.J. Karlin loves watermelon. But not just any kind of watermelon, like the kind available in a supermarket. An old-fashioned variety tickles his fancy. “They have this particular strain that I’m ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley Farmers and Gardeners. This week I am discussing growing squash, in particular heirloom varieties. Squash has been grown here for thousands of years, so it has an old and unique ...

BOISE -- Tomatoes might be the number one plant to grow in American vegetable gardens, but squash is probably a close second. Almost every garden has at least one zucchini or other squash plant in it.

Q: Can you tell what type of pumpkin or gourd the greenish-gray one at the front of the photo is? I planted seeds for the gourds behind it and don't know where the gray or pink ones came from. Any ...

OPB’s “Superabundant” explores the stories behind the foods of the Pacific Northwest with videos, articles and this weekly newsletter. Every week, Heather Arndt Anderson, a Portland-based culinary ...

Imagine my surprise when I went into the garden this past August, and I found it littered with oddly shaped squash that resembled large chunks of hardened lava. Gray-black, other-worldly, yet ...

Kaleidoscopic tomatoes pull focus when they begin appearing at farmers markets this season, but another vegetable-that’s-really-a-fruit also waits to be noticed: summer squash. Laurie Moore—who runs ...

Did you know that tomatoes are the most popular plant grown in American vegetable gardens? But right behind tomatoes at a close second, is squash. Almost every garden has at least one zucchini or ...

Hard squash and beans are two components of what Native Americans and other proponents of Native American farming call Three Sisters’ agriculture. The third component is corn. When grown together, the ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and Gardeners. It is hard to believe June is almost over and the July 4th Holiday is fast approaching. As we enjoy family, friends, fireworks and fire up the grill for ...