With a bit of vision, anyone without lots of space can enjoy the rewarding experience of growing and harvesting cucumbers, whether in a small vegetable garden, or on a deck, patio, or balcony.

You can also look for seedlings or small cucumber plants at your local garden center. Some sources say that cucumbers can be fussy about being transplanted. An easy backup plan is to save a few ...

One plant with a very unusual way of spreading its seeds is the squirting cucumber. Unlike the cucumbers you may have eaten in salads, this one is poisonous. Its flowers turn into bluish-green ...

When it is ripe, the seeds are shot out a hole in the fruit. The juice inside shoots the seed pod out, with seeds sometimes traveling 10 to 20 feet.