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

Q: I would like to grow cucumbers for the Lebanese pickles I find in Middle Eastern grocery stores. The labels say wild cucumber. Can you tell me what that is and suggest a source for seeds? A: If ...

More information: Tongxu Xin et al, Recessive epistasis of a synonymous mutation confers cucumber domestication through epitranscriptomic regulation, Cell (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2025.06.007 ...

Pamela B. Weatherbee writes in her “Flora of Berkshire County, Massachusetts” that the wild cucumber “Can be aggressive, swarming over other vegetation.” And how very correct she is. For a number of ...