It is time that you should strive to plant three things in your garden: cucumbers, okra, and squash. These plants will only sprout and thrive when the soil temperature is above 80 degrees. Cucumbers: ...

Pickling isn't just for cucumbers. Here's which other fruits and vegetables you should be adding to a brine. (Getty Images) The question is ... how should you get started? What exactly should you be ...

Among the plants beloved in the south of the United States, okra (Abelmoschus esculentus) is a crowd favorite. Because okra loves hot and sunny summers, it's most commonly grown in the deep south, but ...

Okra is probably the easiest crop to grow from seed but needs plenty of room. The plants start producing quickly and need to be harvested daily so that the pods won’t get too big and tough.(Howard ...

The cucumber family, properly known as the Cucurbitaceae, provides a wide variety of vegetables popular for the spring, summer and fall home vegetable garden. Members of the cucumber family, known as ...

ONE particularly sauna-ish day a friend mentions he is eating nothing but raw food right now because turning on the stove just feels like too much effort. It sounds a bit extreme, but he could be even ...

August is prime time for picking your own fruit and vegetables around central Ohio. Peaches will be ripe early in the month, with apples starting to take over at the end of the month, and a few ...

Grilled corn on the cob covered with crumbled cotija cheese and drizzled with aioli. A light, refreshing spinach salad sprinkled with diced watermelon and walnuts. After a winter of subsisting on ...

Several of the most popular vegetables grown in the home garden belong to the cucumber family (Cucurbitaceae). Commonly grouped together and called the cucurbits, they include summer squash, zucchini, ...

Do you cut the ends off cucumbers? Why or why? (Dinah Rogers, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune archive) On a recent Saturday, a friend asked me, "Judy, why do you cut the ends off cucumbers?" I was ...

The first person to soak the humble cucumber in some vinegar couldn't in their wildest dreams have predicted the Picklewich, pickle ice cream or pickle Bloody Marys, but here we are. Pickles aren't ...