There's nothing more disappointing than tending to your veggie garden all season, only to see the squash rot prematurely.

If you’re looking for a container planting recipe that brings warmth, texture, and a little late-season magic to your patio, ...

The leaves are changing and the air has a crisp feel—you might say it’s sweater weather, but we know it as winter squash season. Come fall, we’re stocking up on all the gourds we can find at the ...

If you've been growing butternut squash this year, you don't need to eat it all right after harvesting it. Here's how to cure ...

Add a bit of greenery to your front steps, window box or patio with a winter container garden. You’ll find all the ingredients you need at your local garden center, craft store, and maybe even a few ...

Whether you’re a CSA devotee, a farmers’ market weekender or consider ketchup a veg, we’ll bring you fresh inspiration for how to prepare our local produce. This week’s harvest: Winter Squash. Winter ...

The great thing about winter squash — you know, those colorful, often oddly shaped, sometimes ginormous, sometimes small orbs with varying-shades-of-orange flesh that appear almost everywhere you look ...

All summer, we enjoy our share of zucchini and summer squashes. Come autumn, we happily embrace their harder-shelled, densely-fleshed, sweet-tasting brethren. Like summer squash, mild-tasting winter ...

Of all the beautiful winter squashes, delicata is the easiest to love. Though I'm fond of creamy butternut and brilliant red Kuri, it's delicata I choose for a quick dinner on a busy night. It's the ...

Winter squash is such a metaphor for life, isn’t it? Crack through its carapace-like shell and it’s little more than raw, bitter flesh, stringy and seed-laden. You’re a tough nut to crack, Acorn. Not ...

It’s mid-November, yet I still have homegrown tomatoes, peppers and summer squash on the counter. Now that the temperature has dipped, they hold little appeal. Instead, I reach for the winter squash.