If you are going to venture at all beyond the ordinary in growing cucumbers -- and you must if you want to eat the best-tasting ones -- then you should think about how they reproduce. Cucumber flowers ...

If you’ve nursed your cucumber plant into a large, leafy vine, it can be disappointing and confusing when it hardly produces any fruit. Learning about the difference between male vs female cucumber ...

Ask a plant researcher how the sex of a cucumber plant is determined and the person will tell you, "It's complicated." Depending on a complex mix of genetic and environmental factors, cucumbers can be ...

Watch how a lemon cucumber was growing from a seed to fruits in this time lapse. The cucumber seed was planted in a pot with ...

I am, for the first time, growing cantaloupe. I have a couple of questions. Since I’m still just in the blooming stage, do you think the heat of summer will catch up with me and prevent producing any ...

A new study, led by Zhangjun Fei of the Boyce Thompson Institute at Cornell University and Sanwen Huang of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Beijing, has identified the DNA that’s ...

Have you noticed that your squash plant has two kinds of flowers? The male flowers typically have five fused petals with three to five stamens. The female flowers have three stigma lobes in the center ...

Question: My zucchini blossoms and after the blossom falls off there is no vegetable. This happened last year with purchased plants and this year from plants I grew from seed. Do you have any idea ...

If you are going to venture at all beyond the ordinary in growing cucumbers -- and you must if you want to eat the best-tasting ones -- then you should think about how they reproduce. Cucumber flowers ...

ITHACA, N.Y. - Ask a plant researcher how the sex of a cucumber plant is determined and the person will tell you, "It's complicated." Depending on a complex mix of genetic and environmental factors, ...