By Carolyn Wilke The hairy, ground-hugging vines of the squirting cucumber ... closer look at the plant, which grows in dry, barren areas in the Mediterranean, and you’ll find “an ...

Cover, water and label. Put in a propagator to germinate. If growing indoors, plant two cucumbers in a growing bag at the end of May and support with a garden cane attached to the ceiling of the ...

Oxford University and The University of Manchester researchers have unraveled one of plant life's most curious feats of nature, painstakingly studying this squirting cucumber, scientifically known ...

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 ...