If you planted summer squash in your garden this season, you know that, when healthy, it is a very generous plant. Whether you started from seeds or planted three or four baby plants, you are probably ...

Butternut squash is a sweet winter squash, related to pumpkins and acorn squash, that spreads its vines and broad leaves out in summer and stores sunny energy and antioxidants in its deep orange, late ...

I have given and received many excellent pieces of advice in my life. ‘Never eat a biscuit that floats’ and ‘Unless it’s 1976, don’t listen to the new Dylan album’ rank highly. Yet nothing quite ...

Prior to European settlement in North America, many Native American groups grew three of their most important crops – corn, beans, and squash – all in one big jumbled bed. It was an elegant jumble, if ...

Squash bugs will readily overwinter in your garden if they're expecting another vegetable harvest come spring. Here's how to ...

Squash plants grow very quickly and put on a mass of foliage as they develop. These large leaves can turn yellow for various reasons, but what causes discolored foliage and how worried should you be ...

Q: My squash plants and other vegetables have suddenly developed brown edges around some of the larger leaves. Is this a disease? Is there anything I can do to prevent this from spreading to the whole ...

Melissa Breyer was Treehugger’s senior editorial director before moving to Martha Stewart. Her writing and photography have been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, ...