If you're new to gardening, it's easy to underestimate how much pests can affect your squash plants. Try planting a trap crop ...

If you’re looking to add squash plants to your garden, check out six delicious types of summer and winter squash to plant during the month of April!

Question: I am wondering whether it is better to start squash seeds indoors then transplant outside or just wait and plant the seed outdoors. Which works better? Answer: Planting squash seed directly ...

Plant winter squash when the weather is above 65 degrees Fahrenheit. In Southern climates, this could be in March, in Northern climates, this may not happen until May or even June. Winter squash takes ...

It’s just about time to start planting warm-season crops in the vegetable garden. This includes beans, corn, tomatoes, peppers, eggplants and summer and winter squash. In this region, our average last ...

The short-vine, bushy summer squash plants are rather large (24 to 36 inches across), so make sure you space them properly in the garden. The fruit is harvested immature while it is young and tender ...

The little shoots came up by surprise, under the "Peggy Martin" and "Burgundy Iceberg" roses, a few weeks after I emptied the compost bin along the back fence line. Squash, I reckoned. I had no idea ...

The cucumber family, properly known as the Cucurbitaceae, provides a wide variety of vegetables popular in the summer home vegetable garden. Members of the cucumber family that can be planted now ...