Broccoli Vegetable Seeds Packet
Broccoli seeds for the kitchen garden that intends to actually produce broccoli this year. Broccoli is the vegetable that rewards the patient gardener with a second harvest after the first one is done.
Broccoli is the cool-season brassica that continues producing side shoots long after the central head is harvested. 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 Broccoli from Seed
Sowing and Germination
Start indoors 6-8 weeks before last frost. Can also direct sow in summer for autumn crop.
Care and Harvest
Harvest central head before flowers open. Side shoots continue after central harvest. 80-100 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
Broccoli seeds for the kitchen garden that intends to actually produce broccoli this year. Broccoli is the vegetable that rewards the patient gardener with a second harvest after the first one is done.
Broccoli is the cool-season brassica that continues producing side shoots long after the central head is harvested. 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 Broccoli from Seed
Sowing and Germination
Start indoors 6-8 weeks before last frost. Can also direct sow in summer for autumn crop.
Care and Harvest
Harvest central head before flowers open. Side shoots continue after central harvest. 80-100 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.
