While winter squash plants are known to take up a lot of space in the garden, here's a selection of more compact varieties ...

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

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, ...

Growing squash? Then you're likely familiar with how spread out the plant becomes as it grows. Squash plants are known for their sprawling growth, which may lead you to ask yourself when is the right ...

If you've stepped outside on a warm afternoon to see your squash plants wilting, you may immediately grab the watering can to give them a good soak. However, this may not help. Firstly, the afternoon ...

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 ...

Q: I planted acorn and butternut squash last winter from seed and they didn’t grow. Now they are growing. The acorn squash is doing really well. I thought winter squash would ripen in the winter. Will ...

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 ...

I planted my first vegetable garden the summer after my sophomore year in college. I can’t recall all the vegetables I planted, but I do remember the zucchini. That was the year I discovered that one ...

Q: Our yellow squash (and the neighbor's, too) have all been eaten alive by what we call the dreaded "squash worm." It digs itself into the vine and eats it hollow. I pulled most of two plants, but ...

The bulk of the regular season planting is over, and now we’re in the growing phase and early harvest phase. With the plants growing, more plant pests show up. One highly susceptible plant is squash.