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Controlling cucumber beetles is important for your garden if you grow cucumbers, melons, or squash. Damage from cucumber beetles can devastate these plants, but with a little cucumber beetle control, you can keep this harmful pests from destroying your cucumber and cucurbit crops. Cucumber Beetle Identification Cucumber beetles actually come in two varieties. While the two varieties look different, their damage is the same. The striped cucumber beetle is either yellowish

Carrots are among the easiest garden vegetables to grow—and the most bountiful–given the right conditions. Grow carrots in the cool time of the year—spring and autumn. Plant carrots in loose, compost-rich soil free of pebbles, stones or other obstructions. Sow carrots in the garden 2 to 3 weeks before the average last frost date in spring for harvest before the onset of summer heat. Sow carrots again in mid to late summer as late as 12 weeks before the first fall frost f

Although this was centuries before people knew anything about genes, mutation and heredity, farmers in Mesoamerica (where tomatoes likely were first cultivated) knew that planting seeds from this particular plant might give them larger tomatoes. And that’s exactly what they did. By the early 16th century, the Spanish brought what we now know as the beefsteak tomato to Europe, and from there, the plant soon spread around the world. It wasn’t until last month, th

Nigerian fluted pumpkins are consumed by 30 to 35 million people, but millions more have never even heard of them. What is a fluted pumpkin? Nigerian fluted pumpkins are members of the Cucurbiacea family like their namesake, the pumpkin. They also share other characteristics of pumpkins. Read on to learn about growing fluted pumpkins.  What is a Fluted Pumpkin? Nigerian fluted pumpkin (Telfairia occidentalis) is commonly called Ugu, and is widely cultivated t