How Much Room a Cucumber Plant Actually Needs
Ground-grown cucumbers need roughly 36 to 48 inches between plants, with rows spaced 5 to 6 feet apart.
When to Harvest Garlic in Arkansas, and How to Cure It
Garlic in Arkansas comes out of the ground when the lower third to half of the leaves have browned while the top leaves are still green, usually in late…
When to Pick Tomatoes in Arizona, and Ripening the Rest
In most of Arizona, picking time isn’t set by frost at all. It’s set by heat.
When to Harvest Garlic in Arizona, and How to Cure It
In Arizona’s low desert, garlic comes out of the ground by late spring or early June, once the lower leaves have gone brown and the tops have flopped over.
Cucumbers Wait for Warm Soil, Not a Calendar Date
Cucumber seed doesn’t pause and wait for better conditions when the ground is cold.
When to Pick Tomatoes in Alberta, and Ripening the Rest
Frost decides the harvest date in Alberta, not the calendar. With an average first fall frost of September 16 recorded at the Calgary Int’l A station…
When to Harvest Garlic in Alberta, and How to Cure It
Garlic in Alberta is usually ready to lift in mid-July through early August, planted the previous autumn and pulled once the lower leaves brown off while…
White Powder on Cucumber Leaves
White powder on cucumber leaves is almost always powdery mildew, a fungal disease that colonizes the leaf surface rather than eating into the tissue…
When to Pick Tomatoes in Alaska, and Ripening the Rest
The short answer: harvest before the season’s first hard frost hits, whichever exact date that turns out to be where you garden, and don’t wait for full…
Male Flowers, Female Flowers, and Why Nothing Is Setting
A cucumber vine loaded with blossoms and nothing to show for it usually isn’t broken.