If you’ve nursed your cucumber plant into a large, leafy vine, it can be disappointing and confusing when it hardly produces any fruit. Learning about the difference between male vs female cucumber ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The squash plants in Gandy's Garden here at News 19 are without a doubt, the fastest plants I'm growing right now. I started the squash seeds back in mid April and they're 6 to 12 ...

Many vining garden plants put out male flowers first. Squash, melon, and cucumbers all do this. You can tell the flowers are male because they have a stem. Female flowers are stemless, and you may see ...

Have you noticed that your squash plant has two kinds of flowers? The male flowers typically have five fused petals with three to five stamens. The female flowers have three stigma lobes in the center ...

We now know what the ancestor of today’s flowers looked like, thanks to scientists who used computer models to re-create the plant that lived 140 million years ago. Before now, we didn’t understand ...

A viral image circulating on Facebook gives some advice on picking out the tastiest watermelon, but with a twist. It identifies two pictures of watermelons as male and female.. "There's male and ...