Boston Pickling is an old favorite with proven high yields and great pickle quality.
Boston Pickling Cucumber
- Light: Full sun
- Fruit size: 3 to 7 inches
- Matures: 55 days
- Plant spacing: 36 to 48 inches apart
- Plant size: Long vine
Heirloom. A favorite of gardeners for high yields of short cukes with solid flesh. Cucumbers are thin-skinned, straight with full ends, and a nice green color. Vines bear continuously. Flesh is crisp and very receptive to pickling spices. Great for any pickling recipe, whether sweets or dills. May be harvested at sizes from 3 to 7 inches, depending on your pickling needs.
Plants resist scab and are tolerant to cucumber mosaic.
Some Bonnie Plants varieties may not be available in your local area, due to different variables in certain regions. Also, if any variety is a limited, regional variety it will be noted on the pertinent variety page.
Boston Pickling Cucumber is rated
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DReno from
Excellent For Canned Dills: Was looking for salad cucumbers, only plants could find left at local supplier were Boston Picklers, so I thought would give them a try. Yield was so high wife and I thought we would try our hand at canning them as dills. 4 plants have resulted in 25 quarts not counting ones that were eaten in salads or just by themselves. Feel yield would have been greater if not for current drought. Skins are just thick enough plus a great body texture. We used a prepackaged kosher pickle mix (M-- W---s) with great success. Have not tried as sweet pickle but sure result would be as good. Will definitely plant these again next year!
Date published: 2016-03-12
Rated 5 out of
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SPool from
3rd year in a row, and I still love them!
I've grown these Bonnie Plant Boston Pickling Cucumbers for three years now and they are the best! They grow fantastically!! I didn't rotate my crops this year, so my yield is down a little but not by much...I'm still pulling cucumbers almost everyday AND I'm still pickling them! And let me tell you, they make fantastic pickles!! (so they are true to their name). The only thing that stinks is trying to keep bees continually pollinating, sometimes I have to hand pollinate, but no biggie. I do fertilize with 8-8-8 with these guys too and you have to put a trellis up for them!
Date published: 2017-07-02
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NJGardener from
Definite high-yielder: Six plants produced enough cucumbers to can many quarts of bread-and-butter pickles and dills, along with several gallons of fermented garlic "barrel" pickles. This is on top of those given away to friends/neighbors and those consumed each day in salads and in the vegetable juicer. It was a challenge to keep these plants picked everyday! Plants were trained to run up both sides of a 5-foot high "A-frame" support, which made harvesting oh-so-much easier.
Date published: 2016-03-12
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Beverly from
2015 planted 6 plants and harvested 72 pounds of delicious cukes. Canned, ate fresh, and shared more cucumbers than I ever thought was possible. I will be planting these every year. WOW
Date published: 2015-08-31
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leitha mangum from
Just tasted my first cucumber of the season. Wonderful. This is my first attempt at growing cucumbers. I decided on these because they reminded me of what my grandparents use to grown when I was a child. I am not let down. The taste is fresh, crisp and just plain good. Planted them in a pot with trellis. Yield is excellent so far. Looking forward to having these through out the summer.
Date published: 2015-07-09
Rated 4 out of
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Victoria from
I live in Columbus Ohio and was told stink bugs would eat my plant! However, we used an organic pesticide and our plant has tons of produce... I will probably end up having 100 cucumbers. It seems that the tons of rain, new soil (but the low end kind), and partial sunlight have really made my plant grow. Not sure how they taste alone... I only pickle mine.
Date published: 2015-07-07
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Jeannie from
This is the second year trying these pickles. In 2014 we had two plants but the once the pickles started to gain some shape (about 1-2 inches in length) they were orange! There didn't seem to be any problem with texture or taste - they were just orange from the get-go. We couldn't figure out what we did wrong since the color change supposedly signals the cucumbers are over ripe.
Date published: 2015-09-06
Rated 5 out of
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Shari Sykes from
Afraid we had messed up since our Boston pickelers were all yellow! Not even 30 days since planting, so knew they couldn't be overripe. We picked several this evening, the brightest gold like sunshine...THE single best tasting garden cuke EVER!!
Date published: 2015-06-30
