Are the leaves of your cucumber plants wilting despite consistent watering? Do you notice brown, white, or yellow spots on the leaves or cucumbers? Your cucumber plant may be infected by bacterial, ...

Cucumbers are among the most popular garden vegetables, and growing them can be rewarding and delicious. Cucumbers thrive in Iowa’s warm summer and quickly produce a bounty of fresh, homegrown ...

Seeing your cucumber leaves turning yellow can indicate that the cucumber plants are stressed by pests, diseases, or other factors. Taking action at the first signs of leaf yellowing can increase the ...

Do you wonder why some years your cucumbers have low yields but you’re not quite sure what you did wrong? It might not be you. It could be the finicky "dating and mating habits" of cucumbers that are ...

Our summer vegetable gardens are paying off now. We are picking tomatoes and peppers and cucumbers ... . Wait a minute. If you’re like a lot of us, you picked a few cucumbers and then our plants got ...

The long, warm days of summer cause veggies like tomatoes, cucumbers, and squash to jump into overdrive. They seem to grow a few inches each day and begin cranking out fruits that demand near-daily ...

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 first ...

Learn how to nurse your plants back to health. Cucumbers are a popular crop that produces delicious, crisp fruit for weeks at a time. But if your harvests have dwindled and you notice the leaves look ...