Butternut squash is ready to harvest in the fall. Here's how to know when it's ripe to pick from the garden, store and cure ...

Pumpkins may get all the credit as the favorite fruit of fall, but that doesn't mean butternut squash doesn't deserve its flowers, too! As far as fall flavors go, there's nothing like the nutty, sweet ...

Butternut squash is ready to harvest when the skin turns from green to a deep beige. The rind will be hard—if you press your fingernail into the squash, it shouldn't leave a mark. Vines will be dying ...

CORVALLIS – Halloween is still a faint dot on the calendar, but it’s not too early to plan a strategy for harvesting and storing pumpkins and winter squash. First frost won’t hit for several more ...

SQUASH AREN’T ONLY delicious — they’re good for you, too. Here’s how to plant your own: Once soil temperatures remain at about 60 degrees, the seeds of summer and winter squash can be direct-seeded ...

Now's the time to start thinking about harvesting and storing squash and pumpkins.: (Tiffany Woods) As pumpkins and winter squash reach harvest time, gardeners wonder how and where to store them.

When I was growing up, my experiences with winter squash were limited to two things: Carving a pumpkin for Halloween, and my mother's sugary acorn squash side dish. My mother would halve the squash, ...