Brown spots on cucumbers often come from mildew, beetles, spider mites, or fungal disease. Prune infected leaves, sanitize tools, improve airflow, and use sprays or insecticidal soap. End-of-season ...

Our summer vegetable gardens are paying off now. We are picking tomatoes and peppers and cucumbers ... . Wait a minute. If you’re like a lot of us, you picked a few cucumbers and then our plants got ...

IF YOU’VE EVER observed grayish-white powdery spots on leaves, shoots and sometimes on flowers and fruit in your garden, you’ve probably seen evidence of powdery mildew fungi. Powdery mildews are more ...

The big photo shows cucumber leaves infected with powdery mildew, while the small close-up exhibits a few powdery mildew spores (from the powdery mildew colonies shown on the big photo), parasitized ...

Many plants seem affected by mildew early in this growing season, particularly in my shady front yard. The affected leaves are easily recognizable by the typical, white fungal growth, usually first ...

On languid summer days, a milky, sometimes splotchy film of dusty white or gray often creeps over the leaves of trees, shrubs and perennials. This is powdery mildew, one of the most common ...