squash seeds plant Pumpkin Squash Vegetable Seeds | Non-GMO, Vacuum-Sealed

squash seeds plant Pumpkin Squash Vegetable Seeds | Non-GMO, Vacuum-SealedPumpkin Squash seeds for the kitchen garden that intends to actually produce pumpkin squash this year. Pumpkin and squash require space, patience, and the willingness to surrender a significant portion of the garden to the endeavour. Pumpkin Squash is a sprawling vine producing decorative squash that requires more space than most gardeners initially estimate. Each packet is hermetically vacuum sealed removing the oxygen that causes standard paper seed

Pumpkin Squash seeds for the kitchen garden that intends to actually produce pumpkin squash this year. Pumpkin and squash require space, patience, and the willingness to surrender a significant portion of the garden to the endeavour.

Pumpkin Squash is a sprawling vine producing decorative squash that requires more space than most gardeners initially estimate. 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 Pumpkin Squash from Seed

Sowing and Germination

Direct sow after last frost, 3-5cm deep. Start indoors 3 weeks before if needed.

Care and Harvest

Needs 3-4 square metres per plant. Harvest when skin is hard and stem dry. 90-110 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.