Beet Vegetable Seeds Packet
Beet seeds for the kitchen garden that intends to actually produce beet this year. Beets are the vegetable that turns everything in the kitchen a dramatic shade of red and feels no obligation to apologise.
Beet is the dual-purpose vegetable offering both edible roots and nutritious greens from a single sowing. Each packet is hermetically vacuum-sealed -- removing the oxygen that causes standard paper seed packets to lose germination viability within approximately one year. State law requires a 3-year viability label on sealed packaging. NASA research on hermetic seed storage indicates viability of up to 10 years under proper conditions. Every packet is non-GMO and germination-tested at independent third-party labs before it earns its Japanese woodblock print artwork.
How to Grow Beet from Seed
Sowing and Germination
Direct sow 2-3cm deep, 10cm apart. Sow in spring or late summer.
Care and Harvest
Both roots and leaves edible. Harvest roots at 5-7cm for best flavour. 55-70 days.
Why Vacuum-Sealed Seeds Last Longer
Standard paper seed packets are permeable to oxygen and moisture -- the two primary causes of seed degradation. Most paper-packaged seeds begin losing germination viability after approximately one year, contributing to significant garden-industry waste: packets purchased, not planted, expired, discarded. Shido Seeds are hermetically vacuum-sealed. The packet does not expire quietly in a drawer. It waits.
About the Packaging
Every Shido seed packet is illustrated in the style of Japanese 1910s woodblock printing -- designed and drawn in-house by Chive, the Toronto ceramics studio that has been exhibiting at the Chelsea Flower Show in London every year and does not, as a matter of principle, sell to big-box retailers. Customers collect the packets as a series. This was not the original plan.
Description
Beet seeds for the kitchen garden that intends to actually produce beet this year. Beets are the vegetable that turns everything in the kitchen a dramatic shade of red and feels no obligation to apologise.
Beet is the dual-purpose vegetable offering both edible roots and nutritious greens from a single sowing. Each packet is hermetically vacuum-sealed -- removing the oxygen that causes standard paper seed packets to lose germination viability within approximately one year. State law requires a 3-year viability label on sealed packaging. NASA research on hermetic seed storage indicates viability of up to 10 years under proper conditions. Every packet is non-GMO and germination-tested at independent third-party labs before it earns its Japanese woodblock print artwork.
How to Grow Beet from Seed
Sowing and Germination
Direct sow 2-3cm deep, 10cm apart. Sow in spring or late summer.
Care and Harvest
Both roots and leaves edible. Harvest roots at 5-7cm for best flavour. 55-70 days.
Why Vacuum-Sealed Seeds Last Longer
Standard paper seed packets are permeable to oxygen and moisture -- the two primary causes of seed degradation. Most paper-packaged seeds begin losing germination viability after approximately one year, contributing to significant garden-industry waste: packets purchased, not planted, expired, discarded. Shido Seeds are hermetically vacuum-sealed. The packet does not expire quietly in a drawer. It waits.
About the Packaging
Every Shido seed packet is illustrated in the style of Japanese 1910s woodblock printing -- designed and drawn in-house by Chive, the Toronto ceramics studio that has been exhibiting at the Chelsea Flower Show in London every year and does not, as a matter of principle, sell to big-box retailers. Customers collect the packets as a series. This was not the original plan.
