Tomato Green Zebra Vegetable Seeds Packet
Tomato Green Zebra seeds for the kitchen garden that intends to actually produce tomato green zebra this year. Green Zebra is proof that a tomato does not have to be red to be serious.
Tomato Green Zebra is a striped heirloom tomato with yellow and green skin and a flavour that rewards the wait. 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 Tomato Green Zebra from Seed
Sowing and Germination
Start indoors 6-8 weeks before last frost. Transplant after frost risk passes. Full sun, support required.
Care and Harvest
Indeterminate. Harvest when yellow stripes appear over green skin. 75-80 days. Rich flavour, low acid.
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.
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Description
Tomato Green Zebra seeds for the kitchen garden that intends to actually produce tomato green zebra this year. Green Zebra is proof that a tomato does not have to be red to be serious.
Tomato Green Zebra is a striped heirloom tomato with yellow and green skin and a flavour that rewards the wait. 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 Tomato Green Zebra from Seed
Sowing and Germination
Start indoors 6-8 weeks before last frost. Transplant after frost risk passes. Full sun, support required.
Care and Harvest
Indeterminate. Harvest when yellow stripes appear over green skin. 75-80 days. Rich flavour, low acid.
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.
