66 articles related to `Cucumber`
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Cucumber Leaves Turning Yellow: The Facts and the Fixes
When a carefully tended cucumber patch goes from green to sickly yellow, diagnosing and treating the cause can take time.…
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Transplanting Cucumbers for the Best Chance of Success
Whether you’re raising homegrown cucumbers indoors from seed or buying already started plants from your local nursery, eventually they’ll need…
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When to Pick Cucumbers for Maximum Firmness and Flavor
When picked at the peak of perfection, cucumbers boast tender skins, crisp flesh and tight seed cavities filled with soft,…
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Choosing the Best Cucumber Support
Very few gardeners ever regret giving their cucumber vines vertical support. The reward — a larger crop of , straighter…
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All about Climbing Cucumbers
Have you ever wondered why you should go to the trouble of trellising your cucumber vines? The short answer is…
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Preventive Measures for Cucumber Problems
Dreading one of those gardening seasons when your cucumbers produce more problems than fruit? If bugs and diseases have always…
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The Why and How of Growing Cucumbers Vertically
You can grow your cining cukes in one of two ways: sprawling over the soil in a snarl or vertically…
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Yellow Cucumber Fruit: Causes and Cures
Heredity dictates that most cucumbers have skin loaded with green chlorophyll. So, unless you’ve planted a naturally yellow-fruited variety, cukes…
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Building a Cucumber Trellis: DIY Instructions Made Simple
What’s the most important thing you can do to ensure that your cucumber crop is as large and healthy as…
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How Many Cucumbers per Plant? It’s Up to You!
Ask a professional grower how much fruit you can expect from a cucumber and the response is likely to be…
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Cucumber Plants Dying: Causes and Cures
As a perfect complement to soups, salads and dips, garden-fresh cucumbers are a summertime delight. That is until your healthy…
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Cucurbits: Plants of the Cucumber Family
No home garden looks complete without at least one Cucumber family plant sprawling over the soil or clambering up a…
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When and How to Pick Pickling Cucumbers
What makes a perfect pickle? A pickling cucumber boasting firm flesh and small seeds in a small, tight seed cavity.…
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What’s the Right Cucumber Trellis Height?
Growing cucumbers on a offers many advantages over letting them sprawl on the ground. In addition to maximizing your garden…
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How Long Does It Take to Grow Cucumbers from Seed?
You carefully chose the cucumbers you want to grow based on the “days to maturity” number listed on their seed…
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Tips for Treating Yellow Spots on Cucumber Leaves
Although they appear for a variety of reasons, yellow leaf spots on a cucumber’s leaves have one thing in common:…
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Can You Eat a Yellow Cucumber? It Depends on Why It’s Yellow!
Can you eat a yellow cucumber? Although there are exceptions to every rule, by the time most cucumbers turn yellow,…
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Prickly Cucumbers – A Problem, or Perfectly Normal?
Growing your first cucumber crop and wondering why your vines are loaded with prickly-skinned fruit? If you were expecting skins…
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Cucumber Trellis: A Win-Win for You and Your Cukes
It’s simple: cucumbers love trellises. Trellised cukes enjoy improved air circulation, better sun exposure and fewer pests. Gardeners who trellis…
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Cucumber Wilt: Cause and Prevention
It seemed to happen overnight: some of your young cuke vines went from going gangbusters to dull, wilted and riddled…
