Rainbow Veg Seed Collection, Organic, Vital Seeds (7 packs)

£24.00
(£4.00 each)

Enjoy fresh, homegrown organic rainbow veg. Created in partnership with our friends at Vital Seeds.

What makes me special?

- Contains seven packs of ready-to-grow organic seeds
- Harvested from open-pollinated plants in the UK. So you can save your own seed each year
- Each collection will contain the following:

Mango Lassi tomato seeds: A red cherry tomato, known for its taste and productivity. Meaning you’ll have plants full of tomatoes, bursting with flavour. (Approximate seed count – 20)

Wild Garden Mix lettuce seeds: A unique blend of lettuces, selected for their colour and quality. (Approximate seed – count 200 seeds)

Lemon Basil seeds: An unusual variety, with a powerful fragrance of citrus. Milder in taste than common basil varieties, so perfectly suited to herbal teas and cooking. (Approximate seed count – 350)

Trailing Nasturtium: A vibrant edible flower with bright orange, yellow and red leaves. With a peppery, hot and sweet flavour. They’re also great for pollinators and a great addition to summer salads. (Approximate seed count – 35)

Solara Courgette seeds: A colourful yellow variety, that produces an abundance of fruit over a long period. A perfect summery variety, with only a few plants needed to keep you fed throughout the season. (Approximate seed count – 20)

Red Kuri Winter Squash: A bright winter squash, with reddish skin and golden flesh. With a rich, sweet and nutty taste. Perfect for winter soups and curries. (Approximate seed count – 12)

Five colours Chard: A colourful mix of red, pink, orange, yellow and white stalks. With green and maroon leaves. Can be harvested as baby leaves in less than 6 weeks. And can be fried, steamed or blanched. (Approximate seed count – 130)

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Producer

Vital Seeds is a small independent seed company based in Devon producing and selling organic and open-pollinated seeds. Unlike hybrid varieties it is possible to save seed from these varieties year after and they can adapt to your local climate and soil conditions over time. Vital Seeds are committed to educating gardeners and growers about how to save their own seed in the hope of creating a more resilient food system."

Storage & prep

Sowing

Firstly, fill a seed tray or shallow punnet with compost until about ¾ full, then press down to create a firm soil. Poke a few holes in the bottom for drainage if there aren’t any already.

Next, sow your seeds. With smaller seeds, simply scatter them thinly across the surface. For larger ones, make sure to space them out by around an inch. Lightly press the seeds down so they make good contact with the compost.

Cover the seeds with a thin layer of compost and label your trays so you know what is growing in each one. Lolly sticks or a strip of card from your recycling work great for this.

Stand the punnet in a tray of water or in your sink until the tray feels heavier with the water weight.

Move to a warm, sunny windowsill to germinate and keep the compost moist. After around 10 days you should begin to see the first sprouts emerging.

Potting On

Once each seedling has grown two seed leaves and two ‘true’ leaves, you can ‘prick them out’ and move into their own pots.

Push a pencil into the compost and then under where the seedling’s roots are. Hold onto one of the ‘true’ leaves and gently tease the plant out as you pull the compost loose, taking care not to damage the roots.

Pop the plant into a new pot of compost and add more compost around the plant. Pat the soil down to firm it up. Don’t press too hard so as not to damage the roots.

Give the re-potted plant some water, and leave somewhere sheltered, sunny and frost-free.

Once the plant is about the height of its pot, you can plant out into your garden, allotment or containers.

Packaging

Product contact material:Paper (Recyclable - Widely recyclable)
Sleeves/wrap/seals: Paper (Recyclable - Widely recyclable)
Contains BPA: No - does not contain BPA