If you want to protect your pest and disease-prone cucumbers for a bountiful harvest, consider planting one of these 15 ...

This guide helps gardeners decide which vegetables, herbs, and flowers to plant with cucumbers—and which to plant elsewhere.

Rather than spraying your entire field with insecticides or covering your plants for protection, you can implement trap crops ...

So, pick a few cucumber companion plants and get ready for your best harvest yet! Nasturtiums protect cucumbers from common garden pests like aphids and cucumber beetles. Their colorful flowers ...

Aphids, which are probably the most common insect in gardens, are small, usually light green — though there are black, gray ...

Or you want to get ahead of the early-season pests. Then, by all means, start your garden with established plants. When buying established cucumber seedlings, look for stocky plants with vibrant ...

Aphids are a plant pest that can quickly build up to large numbers. Based on questions I’ve had in May, this might be a good ...

"If you grow your cucumbers in an area where water typically pools after watering or rain, your plant will be much more prone ...

The pest control experts at Summit Environmental Solutions revealed that cucumber peelings are "one of the best ways to remove silverfish". According to the pros, the distinct smell of the fruit ...

(Betty Cahill / Special to the Denver Post) Without a doubt, the fast-moving quarter-inch spotted cucumber beetle pest caused distress to my summer yellow squash plants and me a couple of years ago.