Growing your own cucumbers to pickle or add crunch to salads is easier than you may think. This tender fruit loves warm weather and can grow in the ground or containers, so long as the plants receive ...

Explore the stages of growing cucumbers from seed to fruit with our visual guide. After you plant the cucumber seeds, the first growth stage is germination. This is a precarious phase in the young ...

One of the joys of growing a summer garden is slicing up a cucumber straight off the vine and savoring that first crisp, cool bite. The goal: to grow a bounty of cucumbers with sweet, refreshing ...

Lemon cucumbers—which get their name from the smaller, yellow, lemon-sized fruits that they produce—are a great addition to any garden. Plant some today to enjoy your home-grown harvest in salads, ...

Start sowing your cucumber seeds any time between March and June Sow your seeds a month earlier if you'll be growing them in a heated greenhouse If you're sowing straight into your garden, you can ...

Don’t let your squash and cukes get too big before harvesting them, but if you do forget use overmature cucumbers in smoothies, dips and flavored waters and squash into soups and sauces or harvest ...