Many gardeners ask, "Do cucumbers need a trellis?" While not required, if you want to maximize your gardening space and keep your cucumbers off the soil, grow your cucumber plant on a vertical support ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pros share tips for growing your best cucumbers yet—starting with when to plant them. Cucumbers thrive in warm, sunny conditions and should be planted outdoors only after soil temperatures reach at ...

As sweet as it is to spot yellow flowers popping up on a cucumber (Cucumis sativa) plant, when you're trying to create a flourishing vegetable garden, it's upsetting when you only see flowers and they ...

With a few tips and tricks, you can extend the cucumber harvest. Photo: Getty Images The cucumber season is slowly coming to an end, at least for many. But there are ways to trick nature a bit and ...

Something is wrong with my cucumbers, leaves are fuzzy-looking with white spots and also yellow spots that turn brown. What is the cause and what can I do about this? This is most likely due to ...

This Saturday a reader was asking about Cucumber Blight. The most disease-ridden plants in the garden are vine crops and tomatoes. What steps can gardeners take to postpone the inevitable takeover of ...

Our summer vegetable gardens are paying off now. We are picking tomatoes and peppers and cucumbers ... . Wait a minute. If you’re like a lot of us, you picked a few cucumbers and then our plants got ...

Cucumbers thrive in warm, sunny conditions and should be planted outdoors only after soil temperatures reach at least 70 degrees Fahrenheit, typically a few weeks after the last frost. To keep ...