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How to Grow Cucumbers in Your Home Garden
Cucumbers can be one of the most rewarding vegetables you grow in your garden. They grow quickly and just a few plants can ...
Cucumbers are one of the easiest plants you can grow in your summer garden, but just how many cucumbers you can expect to harvest from a single plant depends on a number of different factors.
If you are growing vining cucumbers, install a trellis, or set up stakes to support the plants. This helps keep the vines off the ground, saves space, and promotes better airflow, which reduces ...
Growing your own cucumbers is a great way to enjoy fresh, crisp veggies straight from the garden. But getting the best ...
Squirting cucumbers shoot their seeds up to 33 feet (10 m) away from the mother plant to avoid overcrowding and competition, ...
The hairy, ground-hugging vines of the squirting cucumber Ecballium elaterium might seem like an ordinary weedy plant. But ...
Scientists unveiled the squirting cucumber’s seed dispersal mechanism, involving fluid redistribution and rapid recoil.
The squirting cucumber shoots its seeds so fast that scientists had to use techniques like high-speed videography to record ...
"Ballistic seed dispersal" is not something you see often in plants – and for good reason, perhaps, when you see just what the affectionately called squirting cucumber is capable of. Shunning external ...