Cucumber

Vidyaranyapura's Ashwini Gajendran feeds her family on bounties from her homegrown garden. Here are 10 tips she shares from her planting experience.

After two years of experiments and tests, researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur have invented an eco-friendly packaging material from cucumber peels.

Farmer Moti Singh from Rajasthan has achieved extra-long chillies through organic methods, using his polyhouse

Ganga Ram grows the cucumbers in his polyhouse using the soil solarisation technique.

Backyard gardening might not be a feasible idea during the monsoon, but this is perhaps the perfect time to put your terrace or even indoor space to some use.