One day in mid-to-late May, a gardener in Liberty Twp. was surprised to find a cucumber vine growing in an unsuspecting spot — it was coming up through a crack in a concrete patio. Now, the vine has ...

Cucumbers are one of the easiest plants you can grow in your summer garden, but just how many cucumbers you can expect to harvest from a single plant depends on several different factors. Some of it ...

Pruning cucumber vines boosts airflow and limits disease and pest issues, especially when growing multiple plants together. Removing suckers early and consistently focuses the plant’s energy on ...

Harvesting cucumbers too early or too late leaves you with an undersized crop or bitter, yellow fruit that no one wants to eat. But while harvesting at the wrong time is a big issue when growing ...

Cucumbers are among the most popular garden vegetables, and growing them can be rewarding and delicious. Cucumbers thrive in Iowa’s warm summer and quickly produce a bounty of fresh, homegrown ...

The cucumber family, properly known as the Cucurbitaceae, provides a wide variety of vegetables popular in the summer home vegetable garden. Members of the cucumber family that can be planted now ...

Your cucumbers sit in rich, well-watered soil yet still sulk on the allotment. Could three familiar kitchen herbs, planted a little too close, be quietly sabotaging them? Your cucumber vines sit in ...

Drive around virtually anywhere in Minnesota right now and there's a good chance a light green vine with white flowers and prickly looking fruit will catch your eye. "It's the wild cucumber," said ...