These are also the months when insect pests can really make their presence known, with plant and fruit damage becoming increasingly noticeable. Adults feed on leaves, flowers, and fruits of cucumber, ...

Squirting cucumbers blast their seeds over distances hundreds of times their length, and now scientists say they have found ...

Squirting cucumbers shoot their seeds up to 33 feet (10 m) away from the mother plant to avoid overcrowding and competition, ...

Plant outdoor cucumbers in early summer ... apart - the female flower has a swelling beneath it that will become a cucumber. Alternatively, choose all female flower varieties.

"Ballistic seed dispersal" is not something you see often in plants – and for good reason, perhaps, when you see just what the affectionately called squirting cucumber is capable of. Shunning external ...

The hairy, ground-hugging vines of the squirting cucumber Ecballium elaterium might seem like an ordinary weedy plant. But ...