Looking to start making your own pickles with cukes from your garden? There are plenty of varieties to choose from that will pickle beautifully.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Images Cucumbers are widely grown for their refreshing flavor and delightful crunch. Their unique texture adds a satisfying ...

If you're keen to fill your salad bowl with fresh produce raised and harvested by your own hand, cucumbers are a good place to start, even if you live in the cooler Eastern U.S. states. Cukes need ...

Cucumbers are a summertime staple in the garden, enhancing the flavor of salads, sandwiches, and other seasonal dishes. They ...

What is a “burpless” cucumber? Well, back in your great-grandparents’ day, the standard slicing cucumbers had their full complement of cucurbitacins — bitter compounds that provoked burping in many ...

Heirloom Vegetable Gardening by William Woys Weaver is the culmination of some thirty years of first-hand knowledge of growing, tasting and cooking with heirloom vegetables. A staunch supporter of ...

The expression “cool as a cucumber” was bound to exist. The cooler the better, in fact, as nothing beats a cold one straight out of the fridge. But even a warm cucumber, freshly picked in the middle ...