Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jan. 16—It was a warm day (upper 70s) in August, mostly clear and calm, when I drove on a county road not far from home. I had ...

At one time or another most gardeners have found a “strange” plant growing in their garden or landscape that they did not ...

Pamela B. Weatherbee writes in her “Flora of Berkshire County, Massachusetts” that the wild cucumber “Can be aggressive, swarming over other vegetation.” And how very correct she is. For a number of ...

The cucumber is among the top five vegetable crops grown in the world. Cucumbers are most commonly eaten fresh or preserved as pickles. An important attribute of the cucumber is fruit length.

Resarchers targeted the genetics that underpin fruit elongation in domesticated cucumbers which are longer than their stubby, bitter tasting wild relatives. Cucumbers, a summer staple of salads and ...

It was a warm day (upper 70s) in August, mostly clear and calm, when I drove on a county road not far from home. I had noticed plenty of wildflowers blooming along the roadsides during these summer ...