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 ...

Are the leaves of your cucumber plants wilting despite consistent watering? Do you notice brown, white, or yellow spots on the leaves or cucumbers? Your cucumber plant may be infected by bacterial, ...

Why are my cucumber plants beginning to die off just as they are beginning to produce cucumbers? The two main reasons for cucumbers dying as they begin to bear fruit have to do with two very different ...

PLATTSBURGH — Powdery mildew blotches leaves of yellow squash, melons and cucumbers. The disease is wrecking gardeners’ harvest locally. “Each type of powdery mildew is host specific, and some ...

Now is the time for growers to come to the aid of their cucurbits and rise against downy mildew. Downy mildew is a water mold that destroys plant foliage and is common on cucurbits, a family of plants ...