The cucumber family, properly known as the Cucurbitaceae, provides a wide variety of vegetables popular in the summer home vegetable garden. Members of the cucumber family that can be planted now ...

Grow these companion plants with cucumber to help improve soil health, keep pests away, and attract beneficial insects as ...

There is more to the cucumber family (Cucurbitaceae) than cucumbers, with some rewarding ornamental and edible plants. The only native cucumber family plant is white bryony (Bryonia dioica), an ...

Members of the Cucumber family produce separate male and female flowers, but they occur on the same plant (monoecious is the botanical term for this). This habit of producing separate sex flowers on ...

Once slicing and salad cucumbers like this Asian variety reach an ideal length, they should be harvested while they are still slender. A deep soak once or twice a week and mulch over the soil can ...

Members of the cucumber family produce separate male and female flowers, but they occur on the same plant (monoecious is the botanical term for this). This habit of producing separate sex flowers on ...