You love enjoying fresh-from-the-garden squash and incorporating vegetables into your meals. While these plants are popular choices for gardeners of all skill levels, many who are just developing ...

As summer winds down, many of us are trying to figure out how to use up all the summer squash in our garden. Summer squashes have a much shorter shelf life than hard-shell winter squashes. Although ...

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 ...

Squash bugs take root on the undersides of leaves or near the crown of the plant, where they’ll lay clusters of oval-shaped, reddish, copper-brown eggs. If you pride yourself on growing your own ...

HUNGRY FRUIT: Squash are heavy feeders, meaning they thrive in soil with high fertility. If you don’t have rich soil, you can add an organic fertility source before planting squash, and/or apply a ...

There is a lot of choice when it comes to growing squash. That includes picking from the many varieties, with different shapes, sizes, and colors, deciding whether to grow in the ground or containers, ...

If you are a beginner gardener, you might be intimidated by the idea of growing summer squash for the first time. From growing conditions to spring soil preparation, there's so much to worry about ...

When the tiny squash fruits at the base of squash blossoms don't get pollinated, the young squash will stop developing, shrivel and eventually dry or drop from the plant. Squash fruits begin as ...

Jim Guthrie holds a Zucchetta Rampicante Tromboncino Squash in his garden. The plant, a relative to zucchini and yellow squash, has a similar flavor to its cousins but aren’t as attractive to squash ...

Squash bugs will readily overwinter in your garden if they're expecting another vegetable harvest come spring. Here's how to make them leave.

Years back, at a previous home and a previous garden, I planted a solitary summer squash — or yellow squash, depending on where you see it — plant. It yielded a good amount of fruit but nothing I ...

For this week’s post, I’m sticking to my theme of edibles—there’s a lot going on in your vegetable garden this time of year. This week’s pick du jour? Squash. All sorts of squash. I have squash coming ...