Introducing cucumber plants to your garden is an ideal way to begin growing your own food. This nutrient-dense vegetable is great to have on hand to add to salads and snack on throughout the day.

For cucumber, gourd, and melon plants, that pest is the cucumber beetle. These insects come in two varieties: striped (Acalymma vittatum) and spotted (Diabrotica undecimpunctata). Both types feed ...

New breeding has produced small cucumber plants that are suitable for growing in hanging baskets. Put one plant per 30cm basket, using a Best Buy compost for containers mixed with a Best Buy ...