70 articles related to `Cucumber`
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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…
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The Cause of and Fix for Cucumber Leaves Turning White
It’s summer, yet your cucumbers’ green leaves suddenly look like they’ve been dusted with snowflakes. Powdery mildew has found your…
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When to Pick Lemon Cucumbers for the Best Texture and Taste
Shaped like lemons and almost as juicy, lemon cucumbers harvested at the right time have tender skins and sweeter, milder…
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Bitter Cucumbers and What to Do About Them
From the seed packet to the picking stage, you’ve done everything to raise a continuing crop of crisp, sweet cukes.…
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Pruning Cucumbers: How Much Is Enough?
Your cucumber vines are leafing out and their growth rate accelerated each day. You worry that if you don’t do…
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Boosting Your Cucumber Blossoms for a Bumper Crop
Every cucumber crop begins with golden-yellow blossoms. On most cuke varieties, male blossoms outnumber females by a wide margin. Cuke…
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Growing Lemon Cucumbers in the Home Garden
The look of lemons meets the crunch of cucumbers: Lemon cucumbers might be confused about what they are, but their…
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The Best Cucumbers for Perfect Pickles
Even slicing cucumbers make acceptable pickles if preserved when they are firm and young. But for truly memorable pickles, you…
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Tips for Growing the Crunchiest, Crispest Pickling Cucumbers
What’s the secret to success to making home-grown pickles with irresistible “crunch?” Planting pickling cucumbers bred to produce firm, thin-skinned…
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Where Do Cucumbers Grow Best?
As tropical plants that originated in Southeast Asia, cucumbers grow best in climates with warm, humid summers. In the United…
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How to Stake Cucumbers the Easy, Inexpensive Way
It’s spring, and time to get your cucumbers in the ground. But after tilling, weeding and amending the soil, there’s…
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Powdery Mildew On Cucumbers: Treatment and Prevention
It’s summer, so why do your cucumber vines look as if they’ve just been through a snowstorm? The powdery white…
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The Dos and Don’ts of Watering Cucumbers
In a perfect world, your cucumbers would get all the water they need from Mother Nature’s rain. In reality, however,…
