Boston Pickle Party

Boston Pickle Party is an heirloom as a classic American pickling cucumber. These medium to large plants produce a multi branch structure. This is a Victorian era heirloom, still high-yielding and reliable variety. Prism cylindrical shapes are bright green with white exposed ridges, few various bumpy, but spineless textured thin tender skin. I identify Boston Pickler with triangular symmetry, not too large, perfect for quart mason jars. This is a slicer pickler! Vines develop single leaders without pruning, and vigorously take over trellis and open fields. Not as disease resistant as Marketmore or Excelsior, but heavier yielding and on a larger frame, than Gherkin and Extraordinaire. The weather and disease have a pernicious effect on this variety; but it grows through, producing succulent fruit examples of what the past represents. Boston Pickle Party is a consistent producer, easy to grow, mildly-sweet, maintaining a history of pickles, and persistence.