Cucumbers are among the most popular vegetables for home gardening. They grow quickly, often yield abundantly, and taste ...

Cucumber plants need at least 6 hours of direct light daily to grow; they can become stunted and pale in low-light gardens. However, too much bright sun can cause blanched leaves and sunscald, ...

Cucumber fruit spines—once thought to be mere surface features—hold the key to understanding how plants control their outer ...

Pests and diseases are biotic factors that impact an ecosystem and its organisms. Examples: those deer mowing your hostas to ...

Learn to identify common culprits damaging your plants. Discover what insects could be eating your plants and how to stop it.

The UC Master Gardeners of Butte County are part of the University of California Cooperative Extension system, serving our ...

Consider this your cucumber companion planting guide—plus, learn about the three plants you should never put near cucumbers ...

To do yard work when it’s hot, I try to work in the shade. For example, I spent the cooler hours this morning removing dying ...

Discover proven ways to get rid of cucumber beetles in your garden. From organic methods to preventive tips, learn how ...

Beetles are fascinating, but there are so many that it is difficult to know where to begin – more than 350,000 species that ...

As the disease name implies, the first symptoms are the wilting of individual leaves, followed by longer sections of stem, then entire plants.