Growing your own cucumbers to pickle or add crunch to salads is easier than you may think. This tender fruit loves warm weather and can grow in the ground or containers, so long as the plants receive ...

It’s September, and I still haven’t harvested a single red tomato. The beets are still grape-size and, so far, my four plants have produced only two zucchini. But the green beans? They’re suddenly ...

Low in calories and versatile, cucumbers can flavor beverages, perk up a salad, be served as a snack, or be made into pickles. This popular vegetable is a good source of fiber, potassium, and vitamin ...

MOUNT VERNON — Cucumber growers are in a pickle with the impending closure of a processing plant in Portland, Ore., and a decision by the owner to stop buying pickle cukes in the Pacific Northwest.

I want to try my hand at producing gherkin pickles. Is a gherkin simply a small pickling cucumber? Gherkins, also called West Indian or Burr cucumbers, produce small, exceptionally spiny fruit used ...

What do a family and consumer science agent, horticulture agent, spices, interns Jessica Resor and Karen Perez-Perez and cucumbers make? No, this is not some cheesy joke — it is the makings of some ...

Space before my sunniest window is at a premium, but I had to squeeze in my pickle plant. Cucumbers, growing indoors, sprawling across the living room floor? Hardly: my pickle plant isn’t edible and ...

“Pickles,” mused my son, crunching a sour, green spear at age 5, “aren’t like food you grow. They come from another food.” It could have been an answer from Jeopardy: The Kindergarten Round. “I’ll ...