Item Tag: Pickling Cucumber

Boston Pickling Cucumber Seeds | NON-GMOPlanting: • Common Name: Boston Pickling Cucumber • Type: Vegetable Seeds, Heirloom• Light Requirement: Full Sun• USDA Zone Hardiness: 4-12• Days to Germination: 7 – 10 days (Jump start by soaking seeds in water overnight right before planning)• Days to Maturity: 50 Days• Sow Method: Direct Sow• Planting Time: Spring, Summer• Seed Depth: 1/2″• Plant Spacing: Approx. 12″ apart • Growth Type: Vining• Fruit Size: 2-7″ Best if used by 2026 We only use tracking on orders $10+. Cucumbers don’t take well to transplanting, so either start them early in peat pots or sow them directly. When 2 or 3 leaves appear on each plant, cut off all but the strongest plant with a scissors. Since they love to climb, providing a trellis will save space in your garden, and produce straighter cucumbers that are easier to pick. Planting several radishes with cucumbers seems to repel damaging cucumber beetles, but they don’t like being planted near potatoes or aromatic herbs. Boston Pickling Cucumbers are a favorite among home growers for its high yields of short, blocky cucumbers with solid, crisp flesh, that’s absolutely perfect for pickling. This straight growing cuke has a very attractive, solid, dark green color, with thin skin, and full ends. While the name states that it’s a pickling cucumber, which is true, it’s also quite tasty in salads. The cukes are best picked between 3-6 inches, but bigger cukes do still stay mild and sweet and are great for making relish. Boston Pickling Cucumbers will bear continuously, as long as you keep the vine well picked. Gardening for happiness!