Growing ivy gourds at home provides fresh vegetables with taste and nutrition, improving many recipes. In urban and suburban ...

Ash gourd is low in calories, fat, and protein. It has a high-water content as it comprises 90% of water. It is a rich source of several vitamins, minerals, and micronutrients such as vitamin C, ...

Select a sunny location for your bitter gourd. If you're growing it in a container, choose a pot with good drainage. For a garden bed, ensure the soil is well-draining and enriched with organic matter ...

I want to thank my friend and colleague, Jie Cai, from the Kunming Institute of Botany in Yunnan, China, for photographing the snake gourds growing in their glasshouses, specifically for this blog.

As gourd plants are insect pollinated, most of the uncollected pollen ends up on the ground within only a few metres of the plant, rather than being dispersed for long distances in the atmosphere, ...