A healthy cucumber vine grown vertically with many fruits - Swetlana Wall/Shutterstock When space in your vegetable garden is at a premium, you probably look for crops that you can grow together, so ...

Gardeners around Tucson are starting to complain about the sudden death of their zucchini and other squash. One day the plant is fine, and the next it's wilted and yellowing, clearly on the brink of ...

Experienced vegetable gardeners know that when cucumber and squash vines start to wilt there may be more than lack of water at fault. Plants in the cucurbit family include cucumbers, squash, ...

Are you growing squash? Have you noticed a sudden wilt in your vines? The problem may be a squash vine borer. Control for this insect should be preventative because once damage is noticed it is ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley Farmers and Gardeners. Home food preservation is expected to be very popular this year as more people are turning to gardening. Media outlets are reporting up to 300% increases ...

One of the more common questions people ask this office is what is attacking their squash and other members of the curbit family. The answer is the usually the squash vine borer. Attack by squash vine ...

Q: Each year I try to grow large zucchinis, but am constantly frustrated with the vine borers that attack the plants. I have tried covering the lower main stem with dirt, encased the stem with tin ...

If you thought your garden was inundated with more squash vine borers last summer, you weren't imagining it. There is some evidence that squash vine borers produced two generations, rather than just ...

Watermelons and cucumbers take up a lot of space in the backyard garden -- and they're worth the extra real estate. You can't make a summer salad without cucumber, and you can't have a picnic without ...

The cucumber family, properly known as the Cucurbitaceae, provides a wide variety of vegetables popular in the summer home vegetable garden. Members of the cucumber family that can be planted now ...