The leaves of an overwatered cucumber plant are yellow or brown and wilted. Should you cut the yellow leaves off of cucumber ...

Squash plants once are infected will be more difficult to handle and treat than pests, especially in cucurbit plants. If your plants are infected with Cucumber Mosaic Virus or Fusarium Wilt, there’s ...

A wilting flower is not always a sign of poor health or inadequate care. It could actually be a strategic play, millions of years in the making, created by Mother Nature herself. Researchers from ...

Credit: Macquarie University. Wilting flowers may not mean poor plant health; instead, they could be part of a smart resource-saving strategy. A study from Macquarie University published in Plant ...

Squirting cucumbers shoot their seeds up to 33 feet (10 m) away from the mother plant to avoid overcrowding and competition, but exactly how they do it has long remained a mystery. Squirting ...

Properly storing lettuce can take a bit of care, but it's certain that the freezer is no good for handling your leftover ...

It’s not often that fruit gets you blushing, but might we recommend you don’t watch videos of the squirting cucumber at work. The mechanics behind this suggestively named plant’s bizarre ...

Squirting cucumbers blast their seeds over distances hundreds of times their length, and now scientists know how the plants do it. A squirting cucumber in action is a remarkable sight, but if you ...

Cold water may shock a poinsettia into shedding its foliage. This plant can also wilt and defoliate if its soil is kept dry for too long." She added: "Make sure to protect the plant from drafts.

It also explains how it’s even possible for a cucumber to launch its seeds a distance 250 times the length of its body. “For centuries people have asked how and why this extraordinary plant ...

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