Suddenly a large cucumber vines appeared and strangled the giant's body, trapped him so he can't move.

"I like eating dinner like this," my friend Rock said as we ambled through the garden one evening, peering under prickly squash and cucumber vines.

I have wondered why a tomato always grows on a tomato vine and why a cucumber always grows on a cucumber vine.

You never find a tomato on a cucumber vine and there must be a reason.

By late August, tomato plants or cornstalks or cucumber vines are making offerings everywhere you turn, saying, "Here," presenting perfectly wrapped packages of ripeness.

It looked like a small cucumber vine, except that the fruits were yellow and oblong.

The cucumber vine is a good example.

Ethan notices a dead cucumber vine on the porch, dangling like a black streamer tied to a door to signify a death.

Remember that cucumber vine on the front porch?

He glanced toward the door and the one little window where wild cucumber vines were thickly matted, and Bud interpreted his glance.