Growing cucumbers is easy indoors and outside, even in pots. We trialled and tasted cucumber varieties to recommend the best ...

Most cucumber plants will have two different types of flowers — male and female. The basic difference between these two types is that the female flowers have tiny cucumber fruits at the base ...

Plant outdoor cucumbers in early summer ... Alternatively, choose all female flower varieties. Cucumbers must be kept moist, but not soaking, to prevent a check to the fruit.

It can take many insect visits for a flower to be fully pollinated. For example, cucumbers need nine visits. Without this, a cucumber might develop but is misshapen. This is how plants reproduce ...