The cucumber plant germinates easily, grows quickly, and produces lots of crunchy, kid-friendly vegetables, making this a rewarding crop for beginners as well as a trusty market-garden staple. If you ...

To get a jump-start on your garden, you can start cucumber seeds indoors three or four weeks before the last frost date. This works well for areas with short growing seasons. Since cucumber roots ...

If you are going to venture at all beyond the ordinary in growing cucumbers - and you must if want to eat the best tasting ones - then you should think about how they reproduce. Cucumber flowers are ...

Cucumbers add a fresh garden flavor to salads and slaws and are used in a number of beauty products and treatments. There are a great number of cucumber varieties available for home growing. Whether ...

Germination can be frustrating: you might have just invested a pretty penny in some seeds, waited a long time for them in the mail or gone to some great lengths to acquire them one way or another.

Companion plants play various roles in the vegetable garden community. The cucumber companion plants featured here promote ...

If you are going to venture at all beyond the ordinary in growing cucumbers – and you must if want to eat the best tasting ones – then you should think about how they reproduce. Cucumber flowers are ...