Squash plants are not only prolific producers, but many types, both summer squash and winter squash, also get quite large. Their sprawling vines overwhelm smaller vegetables and other nearby plants.

As all the old jokes about country people not locking their doors except during zucchini season imply, growing squash can be a little too easy. And while figuring out what to do with the overabundance ...

Butternut squash is one of the many different kinds of winter squash such as pumpkin. Characterized by a distinctive pale yellow color and a pear-shaped fruit, the squash is a valuable crop with high ...

A mild, nutty tasting vegetable that sometimes resembles fresh corn, yellow squash is a summer squash — a subset of squashes harvested when immature, while the rind is tender. Unlike winter squashes, ...

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 ...

Squash blossoms add to the fun of summer cooking. Summer arrives in June, and so do the summer squashes. Our markets and farmstands are full of locally grown, tender young squashes. Any given squash ...

With squash, it’s always something. I feel like I’m my mother talking when I complain about squash. If it’s not one thing, it’s another. Squash, you’re nothing but trouble. And of course, every mother ...