With all those beautiful mums and colorful pumpkins at garden centers and farmers markets, how can we select the best and ...

The acorn squash is a common, but less well-known member of the cucurbita family of gourds, which includes summer and winter ...

Pumpkins are the star member of the cucurbit family in October, but they are just one of the winter squash varieties available now, and many others are as tasty as they are attractive. The cucurbit ...

The humble butternut squash is my go-to for a true autumn soup. The thin-skinned Cucurbita is plush, earthy and just a tad sweet. Delicious cubed and roasted or sautéed, when baked and puréed it ...

As you spend hours in the coming weeks carving pumpkins and preparing pumpkin pies, you may start to wonder: What exactly is a pumpkin? Is it a vegetable? But it has seeds, so is pumpkin a fruit? And ...

Thanks to seeds discovered in an ancient pot, students at Winnipeg’s Canadian Mennonite University have helped to revive an extinct variety of squash, reports APTN National News. The seeds, which ...

The length of the day relative to night, or photoperiod, is a strong determining factor for the induction of flowering in many plant species. Short day (SD) plants require a short day length (or more ...

Stagonosporopsis cucurbitacearum (syn. Didymella bryoniae) can affect cucurbits through induction of black rot. This pathogen produces irregular white spots covered with pycnidia on infected cucurbit ...

Summer squash plants (Cucurbita pepo L., cv. 'Early Prolific Straightneck') hydroponically cultured under optimal boron nutrition (+B)3 until age 5 d were transferred to hydroponic solutions ...