No ground for growing? You can still pick fresh cucumbers for your cold salad. Cucumber vines may get tangled and unruly in containers, but other than that cukes are well suited to container growing. … [Read more...]
167 Ways to Use Cucumbers from Your Garden
by Erin Marissa Russell Facing a pile of cucumbers harvested from the garden and wondering how your family will eat them all now that you’re tired of them in garden salads or sliced raw as a snack? Nothing to worry about—Gardening Channel has your back. We’ve combed through … [Read more...]
How to Grow Cucumbers Vertically
by Matt Gibson There are two distinctly different kinds of cucumber: the vining style, and the bush style cucumber. The vining type of cucumber plant is perfect for vertical gardening, as these plants will grow upward naturally when they’re provided with a vertical support. … [Read more...]
27 Weird Ways to Use Cucumbers
On a salad or as a snack, cucumbers are refreshing and healthy. In fact, they contain a lot of the nutrients you need, like vitamins B1, B2, B3, B5, B6 and C; also zinc, potassium, iron, calcium, folic and more. They are very easy to grow in your home garden, or … [Read more...]
How to Grow Cucumbers
Whether you call them cucumbers, cukes or gherkins, cucumbers are one of the most popular home garden vegetables. A few years ago, cucumbers weren’t so easy to grow. Older varieties were prone to disease and insect pests and often failed to set fruit. The fruit was often bitter, … [Read more...]