"Ohhh, I like this." Gardener shares little-known method for growing vegetable plants in small spaces: 'What a fantastic idea' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Boost growth and repel pests with these 10 top cucumber companion plants. Discover the best plant neighbors for a thriving ...

Proper spacing is important between plants and between rows. Cucumbers are prolific producers. A single cucumber plant can yield about 1 to 3 pounds of fruit per week, or a total of 20 to 25 ...

Cucumber plants are fairly vulnerable to a wide variety of garden pests. And in order to protect your harvests, you can explore two options. The first is to reach for chemical pesticides at the ...

When you want to create some privacy, selecting a fast-growing vine to cover a support is a great option -- unless you're ...

Q: Last year, my cucumber plants kept wilting, no matter how moist the soil was. How can I help them fare better this year? A: You probably ran into bacterial wilt, a common disease that affects ...

The cucumber is one of the vegetables that meets all three of these criteria for me, which makes it garden-worthy. Many of the warm season crops are ready for picking: tomatoes, peppers, squash ...

Question: Last year we had trouble with our cucumber plants. They didn’t really form many cucumbers. We had a lot of flowers and the vines were quite large and seemed healthy, but we only had ...

Downy mildew is the newest, very aggressive disease to kill cucumber plants. Mary Hausbeck from MSU has been researching downy mildew. Hausbeck says downy mildew was found in Michigan in 2005 and ...

Q: Last year, my cucumber plants kept wilting, no matter how moist the soil was. How can I help them fare better this year? A: You probably ran into bacterial wilt, a common disease that affects ...